Vinanmeldelser

Flat to start, with oaky aromas of mustard and clove, this feels round, with citric acidity and a sense of wood grain to the palate. Barrel-driven flavors of salty melon and mustard end with grainy r…

Oxidative in character, this ripe wine has melon, spice and almond flavors. It is ready to drink.

One hundred percent varietal, this vineyard designated Merlot seems a casualty of the cool 2010 growing season with prominent herbal notes, tart plum flavors, and astringent tannins.

Perhaps made in a light-bodied style, this wine comes off as herbal and a touch green, with a dullness on the palate. Aged in 30% new French oak, it takes on a taste of coffee bean that intrigues.

This is a light wine that has crisp, perfumed red fruits and layers of acidity. It is juicy and spicy and finishes with good acidity and a mineral texture. Drink now.

Characteristic spiciness and grape flavors show well in this dry wine. There is an apple leanness about the texture, but the acidity gives it freshness, and a crisp aftertaste.

A firm, smoky wine, with tannins that verge on too dry. The fruit is not totally ripe, giving awkward astringency.

Strong aromatics introduce an oily-textured wine, very typical of this grape. The flavors are of bergamot, superripe lychee and sweet spice. This is definitely exotic.

Mealy apple and orange custard aromas set the stage for this ripe, fleshy white. There's a roundness to the mouthfeel, as those notes continue through to the palate, though the finish offers a pithy…

Dark fruits—plum, cherry and blackberry—are bold and center stage on the nose, with secondary glimmers of licorice stick and black pepper. The palate offers black fruit-skin flavors that are partnere…

Extremely sweet and extremely sugary, this wine smells like honeydew melon, and tastes as rich as the simple syrup used in cocktails.

A hard wine to like, although it's clean and without technical flaws. Tastes very oaky now, with hard grapeskin and oak tannins giving an astringency to the superripe blackberry and cherry jelly flav…

Shows the dry astringency, sharp acidity and bitterness of a fine, young Petite Sirah, with currant and pepper flavors accented with smoky oak. Doesn't seem likely to develop, so drink now with heart…

Dry, acidic and tannic, in the manner of a young Barbera, but the flavors of cherries, blackberries and currants aren't powerful enough to outlast the astringency. Drink this tough, rustic wine now.

A lean, austere, mineral-dominated wine. Maybe it needs time, but it seems to be all extracted structure and not much fruit. Screwcap.

Moderate red cherry aromas are about as expressive as it gets, while the palate has a sharp scour to it even if the wine avoids outright tartness. Snappy and crisp at all check points, with a spot of…

You can almost tell from the look that this is dense and heavy. It has a huge bouquet of wet earth, spice and oak, but not much fruit. In the mouth, it is drying and on the flat side, although still-…

Made in the full-blown, barrel-fermented and -aged style, this wine shows off the cooper's art in its bold toasty-caramelly-vanilla aromas and flavors. Some peach fruit manages to sneak through the w…

Tropisk i duft, nesten som en luftfrisker, har denne også en oljete, bitter nyanse i buketten. Den fremstår som hakkete og sitrusaktig, med en nøtteaktig kjerne av mandariner, sitron og melonsmaker.…

Denne blandingen av 60 % Xarel-lo og 40 % Chardonnay gir noter av bensin, gjær og melis i duften. Den er syrlig og sitrøs i smaken, med lime, syrlig eple og andre grønnaktige smaker. Føles tynn og sy…

Denne småproduksjonen (200 kasser), fatlagrede Xarel-lo er godt laget, men klarer ikke å treffe en nerve. Den er gul i fargen, med oljete aromaer av bensin, appelsinskall og treharpiks. Den føles kle…

Lukter som generisk røde bær med et snev av grønne urter. Føles hakkete og adstringerende, med grønntonede smaker av plomme og bringebær. Frisk på ettersmaken, men smaker urteaktig og underutviklet.

Denne enkle Chardonnayen er drevet av tropisk frukt, med en floral aroma og et hint av harpiksaktig eik. Smaksbildet virker noe usammenhengende, med en saltaktig smak og sitruspreg på avslutningen.

Lukten består av fyrstikk, tropiske toner og grønn banan aromaer. Dette føles fortynnet, med et hint av generisk tropisk frukt. Drikk nå.