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Opus One Red Wine 2015
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$386.43
Purity and brilliance on the nose with so much currant and flower character. Roses, currant bush and fresh leaves,...
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Orin Swift Red Blend Machete 2015
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$63.29
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2015 Proprietary Red Machete opens with scents of black forest cake, cassis and...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$284.56
Deep garnet-purple, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Dr Crane Vineyard leaps from the glass with opulent...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$326.08
Inky purple-black in color, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard gives up notes of blueberry...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$638.25
Deep purple-black in color, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard opens with seducing notes of...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$448.97
This shows dark plums but then there's also lighter blackcurrant essence, dark chocolate, underbrush, mint, licorice,...
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Promontory (Harlan) Red 2015
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$926.58
I was lucky enough to be able to taste a small vertical for this report. Starting with the 2015 Estate, this is still...
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Promontory (Harlan) Red 2015
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle:
$950.51
$1011.18
I was lucky enough to be able to taste a small vertical for this report. Starting with the 2015 Estate, this is still...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$494.95
Another perfect wine is the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon and readers wanting to know the heights this...
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Realm Proprietary Red Blend The Bard 2015
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$193.29
The 2015 The Bard checks in as 73% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Petit Verdot....
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Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Monte Bello 2015
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$285.04
Stunning depth, power, purity and elegance. The blackcurrants and plums are fresh and intense on the nose with...
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Ridge Chardonnay Monte Bello 2015
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$242.36
Sun-bleached straw color. Ripe pineapple, green apple, pear, melon, biscotti, flint, toasted oak. Elegant fresh...
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Scarecrow Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$878.29
Produced from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon leaps from the glass with gorgeous floral notes of...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$419.51
Moving to the 2015s, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Georges III Vineyard is a thick, unctuous, huge beauty...
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Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$3474.46
Composed of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc, the very deep purple-black colored 2015...
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Screaming Eagle The Flight 2015
750ml - Case of 3
Bottle:
$823.95
This is very tight grained and beautifully balanced with violets, crushed stones and a brambleberry character....
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Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select 2015
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$274.95
I was able to taste four vintages of the estate’s flagship Cabernet Sauvignon, their Hillside Select. This first...
2015 United States California
Of all the New World wine countries, perhaps the one which has demonstrated the most flair for producing high quality wines - using a combination of traditional and forward-thinking contemporary methods - has been the United States of America. For the past couple of centuries, the United States has set about transforming much of its suitable land into vast vineyards, capable of supporting a wide variety of world-class grape varietals which thrive on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coastlines. Of course, we immediately think of sun-drenched California in regards to American wines, with its enormous vineyards responsible for the New World's finest examples of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot based wines, but many other states have taken to viticulture in a big way, with impressive results. Oregon, Washington State and New York have all developed sophisticated and technologically advanced wine cultures of their own, and the output of U.S wineries is increasing each year as more and more people are converted to their produce.
California as a wine producing region has grown in size and importance considerably over the past couple of centuries, and today is the proud producer of more than ninety percent of the United States' wines. Indeed, if California was a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world, with a vast range of vineyards covering almost half a million acres. The secret to California's success as a wine region has a lot to do with the high quality of its soils, and the fact that it has an extensive Pacific coastline which perfectly tempers the blazing sunshine it experiences all year round. The winds coming off the ocean cool the vines, and the natural valleys and mountainsides which make up most of the state's wine regions make for ideal areas in which to cultivate a variety of high quality grapes.