2005 Grenache The Ripper
Prezzo di mercato
Opzioni di acquisto
Note di degustazione
(16.8% alcohol) Dark red. Sexy, floral-dominated bouquet evokes creme de framboise, rose and white pepper. Silky red berry flavors are impressively fresh and focused, with fine-grained tannins adding support. The white pepper flavor repeats on the long, sweet finish. I didn't get any obvious warmth or heat, and I was looking for it. (Eric Jensen's hillside Booker Vineyard, planted on low-yielding calcareous shale, is located on the west side of Paso Robles, adjoining L'Aventure. His client list is a hit parade of top New Wave producers, such as Pax, Villa Creek, Saxum, Sashi Moorman (Stolpman), Linne Calodo and L'Aventure.)
Punteggi della critica
Punteggio medio
Robert Parker
Josh Raynolds
Altre recensioni e punteggi
The 2005 The Ripper shows beautiful sweet black cherry and cassis fruit intermixed with some smoke, licorice, and underbrush. The wine is full-bodied, opulent, sensual, with low acidity and ripe tannin. This is a gorgeously proportioned, seriously endowed wine with no hard edges. Drink it over the next decade. 2005 marks the debut vintage of Booker Wines, which is a 40-acre vineyard just to the west of Highway 101 on a beautiful hillside not far from the L’Aventure winery. The wines are made by Justin Smith at Saxum, and that no doubt explains their impeccable quality out of the gate. The two most impressive wines in each flight are the 100% Grenache cuvee of The Ripper, which is aged in larger demi-muids prior to bottling. Tel. (805) 237-7367; Fax (805) 237-7368