Cartlidge & Browne: Current Releases
Chardonnay - 2008 California
Sources: (81% Clarksburg - Wilson Farms Vineyard) (11% Carneros) (8% Sonoma County)
Tasting Notes: Aromas of apple, kiwi, butterscotch and oak spice. Very user-friendly with lots of juicy pear and stone fruits.
Sauvignon Blanc - 2008 Dancing Crow Vineyard
Sources: Lake County - Dancing Crow Vineyard
Tasting Notes: A brilliant light straw color, this wine combines delicate floral high notes with ripe melon, citrus, mango, and guava suggestions. On the palate, it's zippy and vigorous while offering juicy grapefruit and honeydew flavors.
Cabernet Sauvignon - 2007 North Coast
Sources: North Coast
A brilliant, full ruby/garnet in color, the wine’s aromatics are buoyant and assertive, offering cassis and black cherry fruit along with Cabernet’s signature characteristics: cedar, graphite, sweet tobacco, and a touch of mocha. The full-bodied palate highlights ripe fruit, oak spice, and earthy tones of anise and cocoa. The wine is a great match for most grilled red meats, roasts, poultry, and cheese such as aged cheddar and Manchego.
Cabernet Sauvignon - 2007 Paso Robles-Sold Out
Sources: Paso Robles
Tasting Notes: Aromas of ripe fig and plum, with inviting mocha & cedar. On the palate, it is dense and full-bodied. Flavors of ripe blackberry, cassis and bittersweet chocolate are dominate, filled out by suggestions of spice cake, anise and toffee.
Cabernet Sauvignon - 2006 Snows Lake Vineyard
Sources: Snows Lake Vineyard - Red Hills Lake County
Tasting Notes: Flavors of cedar, graphite, cassis, sweet tabacco and bittersweet chocolate. That said chocolate cherries immediately come to mind.Click here for a video on Lake County Wines
Merlot - 2006 North Coast
Sources: Lake County, Sonoma, Mendocino
Tasting Notes: There is roundness and depth, and the top notes of cranberry and juicy bing cherry are accompanied by plenty of ripe black fruit. Mocha hints, along with a cedary character on the finish.
Pinot Noir - 2008
Tasting Notes: Aromas of cherry cider, plum jam, and spice cake. Vigorous and full-flavored, notes of cherry cobbler, fresh plum, and toffee.
Zinfandel - 2007 Deaver Vineyard
Sources: (Deaver Vineyard - Amador County)
Tasting Notes: Ripe black fruit with raspberry high notes, along with finely focused notes of cola, baking spices, anise, and leather. The palate is very generous and rich, with jammy lush fruit character focused by sweet toffee oak and a solid mineral core that clearly identifies its origins.
Rabid Red - 2006
Sources: Mendocino, Lodi, Napa, Sonoma, Amador County
Tasting Notes: Dark ruby color with loads of rich, grapey, raspberry and cherry fruit underscored by mocha tones and spicy oak.
Dessert Syrah NV(TASTING ROOM ONLY)
Sources: Mendocino, Paso Robles,
Tasting Notes: A brilliant plum color with amberish tinge, the wine’s aromas lean most heavily toward confit of red fruits, with tones of honey, raisin, and toffee. The palate is amazingly lush and expansive. Its flavors of red fruits, anise, spice cake and butterscotch are boosted and focused by refreshing acidity.
