Château Recougne
Bordeaux Supérieur Carménère
Aroma is strawberries and cherries. Flavor is also strawberry and cherries but gives way to a black pepper spiciness in the middle as well as chocolate, oak, and a little smokiness. Solid tannins. it's a perfect every day wine like the best expression of a table wine — 10 years ago
Nuevos Vinos C.B.
Lurra Navarra Garnacha 2013
Nose is dark cherry. At start is slight pepper and very dark deep cherry flavor that gives way to heavy tannins. Tail medium tannins and medium in length — 10 years ago
Kenwood Vineyards
Jack London Vineyard Zinfandel 2012
On the tongue there's a sort of tar-like dark soil flavor coupled with a bit of acidity but just enough and overall a rich black pepper spiciness. The aroma and tail aren't that significant or powerful. — 10 years ago
Michael David Winery
Freakshow The Strongest Man on Earth Lodi Cabernet Sauvignon 2012
Aroma is quite pleasant and strong, of roses.
very soft on the palate with a light strawberry sweetness at the start followed by medium tannins in the middle and in the tail. The tail is quite long and a bit like strawberries. Because it's fairly dry and has solid tannins it tastes a bit like dried strawberries but ones that have been on the vine a long time, dark and super ripe and high sugar content. The tannins gradually intensify and this seems to bring with it a spiciness. This wine is excellent, despite not having much complexity or many layers--it accomplishes this I think by having a few delicious flavors paired with great balance and subtlety. The flavors and aromas are all quite similar to roses, strawberries, cherries, and similar foods, so easily identifiable and likable. — 10 years ago
Domaine Les Pins
St. Nicolas de Bourgueil Cabernet Franc 2012
The aroma and flavor are quite tricky to describe because not like any other flavors we commonly know, but the most pronounced aspect of the wine is its texture, which is soft, so much so that it's first touch on the palate is almost unnoticeable, but then it builds, specifically with the emergence of tannins and an ever so slight spiciness. I want to believe however that the aroma and flavor are ineffable because they're only comparable to other wines from the Loire--it's not cherry or black pepper or whatever--rather, it's simply a great wine representative of its terroir. It just tastes like wine to me, and a great wine. It should also be noted that it's not rich--it's instead quite subtle. — 10 years ago
Martin Ray
Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon 2011
Aroma is of plums and that works its way onto the tongue since the flavor is fairly sour or acidic and the tail is long and similar to the rest. But overall the wine isn't that bad — 10 years ago
Peju Province Winery
Napa Valley Cabernet Franc 2009
The aroma is very strong and excellent of strawberries and cherries. On the palate it's very light almost evaporating and tannin-like (and that tannin-heaviness at be why the wine vanishes in a dry way) so there's really no tail. It also might taste like oregano — 10 years ago
Azienda Agricola Pugnane
Barolo Nebbiolo 2004
Color is a burgundy red or Crimson but around the edges there's a rust colored halo because this is about 10 years old. We are drinking it in 2014 but it was bottled in 2004. The Aroma is a metallic one but rich iron or rusty, and something like a very dark black cherry. The flavor: it's a rich dark powerful wine with strong tannins, and The mouth feel is cool and soft; no identifiable fruit flavors on the tongue but instead tar or earthiness, with a little spiciness, and it's astringent leaving The mouth dry. Tail is dry and characterized by tannins. — 10 years ago
Luis Segundo Correas
Valle Las Acequias Don Angelino Mendoza Bonarda 2010
On palate strawberry and black pepper, sweet and good tannins. Really great and reminds me if some Italian wines, barolos — 10 years ago
Ryan Riley
It sounded at first a bit unimaginative to say that this one smells like Zinfandel, as if unable to find an association or metaphor, but it began to sound just right because the aroma of this wine is so true to type and distinctively Zinfandel, so the task has become to determine exactly what kind of the type we have here, which is, if we force the simile, something like a tart dried cherry along with a darker spicier flavor, or, seeing that this comparison is fine but still not quite up to snuff, is like the small, stressed Zinfandel grape right off the vine, complete with its dusty skin, which conjures up the heavy tannins of this wine on the tongue, though of course the wine is far better than its grape, since the sorcery of the wine making process has transformed the thing into what we've come to love as Zinfandel. It's quite circular as an argument but also as a wine, right down to the finish, a robust one reminiscent of the liquid on the tongue like an echo rather than some of these other wines that veer in a new direction or die after they're gone. — 9 years ago