Next, you’re probably thinking I am moving on to Italy-and I don’t wish to disappoint so early in the wine game, so let’s do it. Provencial garrique and sandlewood notes, finishing with exotic tea flavors and mineral filings. A refined silky style with subtle bitter cherry, damson plum, and raspberry coulis notes racing thorough. In the meantime, I’ll be sharing the just released 2018 Clos Des Papes CDP ($109) Again, we’ve been waiting a while now, so we’ll just open this baby up soon.
Sentimentally speaking, it may well be the last wine I share with the family. I found a $900, 3-liter bottle of the stuff back-when and it’s been housed and soundly aging at the Palm Desert Wine Vault. Most valley residents love this Southern Rhône Blend and if they have any French in their diction, they’re quite proud on how they pronounce the name. It’s always been an old school Chateauneuf-du-Pape that offered the understated luxury of Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, and Mourvèdre. Now on to France: Back in 2005 Clos Des Pape was Wine Spectators’ Wine of the Year.
#WINE STEWARD ALLORA FULL#
Find layers and touches of anise, cedar, black licorice with our favorite full tannins to assist us in taking down any steak in our fridge. It’s firm, ripe, muscular-still tight, but deep, structured, intense & concentrated, showing a mix of ripe currant, cassis, plum, black cherry, blackberry that is pure, clean & complex. It’s as young as a Cal Cab can be -but who can wait! Open one now and one later. At this price, of course, most of us aren’t picking-up cases of this stuff, but we will take that next step to treat ourselves, after one heavy year, to one of the great California Cabs on the market.
Fortunately, we can do a re-set right now and vote for the 2017 Robert Mondavi Reserve To Kalon Vineyard ($174.99) This wine is absolutely delicious so everyone is in luck to taste anew. Unfortunately, the seriousness of circumstances took a lot of vino priorities down. Last year, we voted for the 2016 Robert Mondavi Reserve To Kalon Vineyard as our “ Cab of the Year”. If you were to contain all the Cab sold to all the country club duffers & quaffers who shop at the Ralph’s Indio store in the past ten years, you could fill the Salton Sea-“hmmm, rather pronounced saline notes, don’t you think?” This is Cab country, and a bunch of rich retired wine folk aren’t too far off on this choice.
The Cab for all Seasons: Selling through gobs & gobs of wine during the pandemic year, the number one selling varietal was not your grandma’s Chardonnay, nor your neighbors Pinot Noir, nor your sister’s Sauvignon Blanc but the valley’s favorite-the very comforting Cabernet Sauvignon. So, without further ado, join with me-as your friendly somm-about-town and Vino Voice host, as we touch on some of the most interesting and exciting wines available right now to start off the new year. And as to the sales of the Albertsons, Vons, and Stater Bros-well you can probably tell me what’s up, if you shop at those places.
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