Colgin IX Estate 2012 (Ex-Winery)

Colgin IX Estate 2012 (Ex-Winery)The 2012 IX Proprietary Red Estate, which comes from their gorgeous hillside vineyards overlooking Lake Hennessey high on Pritchard Hill, is a blend of 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc and 8% Petit Verdot. Absolutely spectacular aromatics of spring flowers, blueberry, blackberry and blackcurrant fruit intermixed with creosote, graphite and floral notes are followed by a wine of great depth, elegance, richness and purity. Simply

black raspberry and a hint of wood

hugely long and impeccably well-balanced finish

toasty oak and plenty of sweet tannin in its full-bodied

underbrush

The 1993 Cabernet Sauvignon Herb Lamb Vineyard (which has been bottled and will be released in 1996) should turn out to be one of the most exceptional wines of the vintage

elegant and bright floral-suffused nose features notes of cool blue pinot fruit

with an opaque bluish/purple color to the rim

this is profoundly great Syrah

The oak is completely obscured by the lavish

Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon

The well-delineated and punchy middle weight flavors possess ample richness as well as very good volume before concluding in a slightly more powerful and complex finale

full-bodied mouthfeel and super-richness and power