Colgin Herb Lamb Vineyard 2002

Colgin Herb Lamb Vineyard 2002The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Herb Lamb Vineyard is a wonderful wine on its own merit, but by no means is it as impressive as the other three efforts from Ann Colgin and her husband, Joe Wender. This wine has an opaque plum ruby color, a scent of unsmoked, high class tobacco, underbrush, spice box, black currants, chocolate and espresso. It is seriously endowed, elegant, and again, fully mature, but without the nobility, complexity and sheer class of

the 2014 Proprietary Red IX Estate is an old-fashioned Médoc blend dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon

full-bodied flavors of creme brulee

with focused

Perhaps the finest wine yet made at Blankiet is the spectacular 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Paradise Hills Vineyard

fully mature

the wine remains graceful and well-balanced

giving the wine all the weight and massiveness of its two younger siblings

The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Volcanic Hill is a big-time winner

or obtrusive tannin or acidity

A much more floral-inflected nose is equally fresh and ripe with a broader range of spice elements adding breadth to the pretty red and blue pinot fruit aromas that are trimmed in noticeable if not invasive wood

balanced and exquisitely persistent finish where a hint of bitter cherry pit surfaces

This is also quite refreshing and utterly delicious