Wine on Fire, if you know Spanish.....and is it ever! This wine is one of my favorites and at a price point around $10 to $12 a bottle I can afford to drink it every day.
This wine has a bit of smokiness on the nose balanced with blackberry and blueberry. The smoke was nice, not overpowering but enough to interest you. On the Palate this wine is amazing with spice, vanilla somewhat of a raspberry finish kissed with a touch of cigar. It's enjoyable alone or with a variety of foods like pizza or tacos.
Today I was able to taste an amazing Wine. 2005 Edmeades s
Carmenere 90%, Cabernet Sauvignon 10%
This wine has so many layers, like a rich Swiss chocolate cake. Almost a garnet purple on the pour. Lush nose with intense aromas of black pepper, dark black fruit with a bit of cola and tobacco. On the Palate this wine is smooth and intoxicating, you almost cannot wait for a full pour, at least I could not. Flavors of licorice a hint of floral, velvety chocolate, nice grip and long wonderful spicy finish.
Carmenere is a dark-skinned red wine grape variety originally from the vineyards of Bordeaux, but which has now found a particularly happy home in Chile, where it is sometimes also known as Grand Vidure.
A late-ripening variety, Carmenere requires high levels of sunshine and a warm summer to show its true potential, but in the right environment it can produce fine, deeply-colored red wines. Carmenere is thought by some to be the 'grandfather' of Bordeaux varieties.
Unoaked Chardonnay, beautiful straw color with green highlights. The nose is very floral, gardenia flowers. It is not similar to any Chardonnay I've ever had. This had no buttery taste/smell common with Chardonnay. It was citrusy almost like a Sauv Blanc, lemon zest, pear and apple. Easy to drink wine, would pair well with seafood dishes.
100% Tempranillo and from Spain...need I say more?
Tempranillo, one of my favorite wines and a favorite region!
We discovered this wine in Arizona and had two bottles shipped to us.
A few months later we find it on our favorite wine shop in Missouri..total kismet!
There is allot going on in this bottle. Super dark on the pour, and it kicks off some earthy dark fruit on the nose. On the palate, it's big in body and in flavor, again nice ripe dark fruit flavor, a perfect touch of oak, vanilla, white pepper and leather tones with a long lush finish. This is simply a savory wine and I am glad we purchased two bottles, even more glad we can now purchase it at our favorite wine shop. I have no doubt you could evolve this wine for another 2-3 years and enjoy it just as much, maybe more. It is a great value, right around $15 per bottle.
If I get you to try any wine, this would be it!
Blend of Grenache, Syrah, Carignan and Cinsault grapes.
Raspberry/blackberry fruit on the nose, with a spicy/cedar hint around the edges. Palate has lots of acidity, making this one juicy mouthful of red berries and pepper. Just enough tannin, so it clings slightly to the teeth. Not to heavy and not to light. We drank most of this wine before dinner but served it with a cajun dish and it seemed to pair well.
The vineyards are located on the slopes of Mont Ventoux. The altitude offers freshness, which provides a good acidity level to the grapes. The wine is therefore fresh, fruity and well balanced.
I purchased this wine at a Liquor outside of town that has a pretty decent wine selection. I guess the name grabbed me, perhaps the picture as it looks like an Inukshuk (a stone monument erected in the image of humans. One of their purposes was to serve as direction markers in the harsh and desolate Arctic. They were a tool of survival.) Anyway the wine spoke to me as often times happens and I purchased it. I had it about a month before I opened it.
Winemaker's Blend is a blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Sirah
The color..dark, lush garnet red, beautiful in the glass and more so on the nose. It exudes rich dark fruit aromas that make you want to keep sniffing it, in fact you probably will while trying to pick out all the characteristics.
First sip, dark berries and black cherry...matching the color so to speak.
A bit of brown spice, perhaps some vanilla to finish it off. It's even better the 2nd day after it has time to soften a bit. Good fruit and nice balance.
I would purchase it again!
Of course having never head of Red Rock Winery before I had to do my research. There is not allot of information but here is the website. http://www.redrockwinery.com/index.html
Right now they are only producing reds which consist of Merlot, Malbec, Pinot Noir and Winemakers blend.
