Tasted 24 November 2017
Sonoma County · Russian River Valley
Much better showing than last year. Time in bottle certainly helped. However, this is still a bit of a brute and built more like a Cabernet than a Chardonnay. After about two hours of air, it developed some nice yellow…
Distinctly Tench in style, with black and red cherry, black and red licorice, dust, crushed roses, red rock, and spice, the Calixtro is a young pup for sure, but it is swirling with fun flavors.…
I haven't had this wine in over four years, but this really held its own throughout the evening. Still a powerful and strong showing, but not overbearing or loud. When I kept revisiting it, the…
Ok, so this bottle screams two words to me very distinctly and without equivocation: "Drink Now." It's a Charleston chewy prune purple drank and all, but it's pushing past its window (at least, this…
