"Odedi"

9.3

#AgedWineTuesday

Inky in color with a short reddish rim. Not showing much age.

Strong nose of red and black fruits with cedar, licorice, coffee, light earth, herbs, tobacco leaf, dark chocolates, eucalyptus and mediterranean spices.

Full-bodied with medium acidity and long legs.

Dry and very fruity on the palate with blackberries, black plums, cooked cherries, cedar, licorice, light vanilla, tobacco, herbs, spices, light cola, chocolates and peppercorn.

Long finish with soft tannins and tangy raspberries.

This gorgeous 13 year old Cabernet Franc based Bordeaux blend from Coombsville in Napa Valley is drinking at its peak now. Rich, extracted and 'in your face' kind of wine. Nicely balanced and very complex.

The Carmenere is very dominant right now, and it feels more like a Napa Merlot. Will continue to drink nicely in the next 5 to 7 years.

Delicious right out of the bottle, and even better after 45 minutes of airtime.

A great sipping wine that will also pair nicely with food.

A blend of 51% Cabernet Franc, 32% Carmenere, 14% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Merlot. Aged in all new French oak barrels. A tiny production of 1,044 bottles.

15% alcohol by volume.

93 points.

$260. — 11 hours ago

Andrew Formi

9.0

Older wine’s really need time sitting before partaking…. 1996 — 3 years ago

Eric

9.7

JFC. Massive, underripe bright fruit. Ready now if you like em in your face. Fantastic floral 👃 — 4 years ago

Ashlyn VanAllen

10

One of my favorite Chardonnays! Light in body but tastes like it goes through malolactic fermentation giving it a little bit of butter flavor. So well balanced in acidity. Not too bold, not too light. Just beautiful! — 7 years ago

with Greg

Jan de Weerd

9.2

Wine out of a keg into a growler....and it was Awesome!! Full bodied spicy juice with baked red fruit up front pressed from the Frazier vineyard south of Caldwell. — 8 years ago

with Tammy

Shay A

9.4

A crunchy, maple soaked blackberry, alongside secondary notes of hoisin sauce and cherry tobacco on the nose. Gorgeous mid-palate. So smooth and integrated. Palate is full of ripe, fresh squeezed blackberries, little bit of tar, pipe tobacco and and finish that brings about some red tart fruit. Really nice wine @Keith Fisher . — 8 years ago

with Benjamin, Dan and 1 other

Andy@andyberke.com

9.2

Excellent classic cab — 7 months ago

Frank Gresik

9.1

Great Pinot Noir. One of the best I’ve had recently. Great nose, good body, long smooth finish. Everything I look for in a Pinot Noir — 2 years ago

Raul Puga

9.2

Surprise wine. Brought by a friend to dinner tonight. Really good — 4 years ago

Randy Fillingim

9.1

was the star of a recent testing of Carmenere wines. my first experience with this varietal on its own. quite pleasant -no flaws - seamless in structure fruits and tannins doing their job — 5 years ago

Kike Labastida

10

Vino rojo-purpura con destellos violetas muy brillantes, en nariz resalta la ciruela negra antes de ser pasa y los frutos rojos, la pimienta, el romero, detectó cardamomo, hierbabuena y un poco de tostado, en boca muy aterciopelado (casi cosquilloso), taninos medios y chocolate negro (de los finos) y un final largo. Lo acompañe con un corte rib-eye prime grueso, espárragos, queso maduro y un jamón ibérico de bellota y todo marido delicioso — 7 years ago

Kike Labastida

9.5

Vino que a mi consideración pagas poco por un gran vino, si estás empezando en el mundo de el vino, este es una de las mejores opciones para dar un siguiente paso. Excelente para comida mexicana como tacos, enchiladas, enmoladas, flautas de pollo o res....casi toda la mexicana — 7 years ago

Shay A

9.4

So much more sweet fruited on the nose than the Caldwell. Partially due to age. Little bit of toasted oak with blackberries and cassis on the nose. Licorice, ripe raspberries and clove on the finish. Very Farella-like, as it should be. Years ahead of it. Nice pull @Mark Flesher . — 8 years ago

with Dan, Mark and 1 other

Chris Zitzman

9.1

This is the 2019 Caldwell Vineyard Syrah from Jason Moore’s top line entitled Modus Operandi. Second time I’ve reviewed it- to the year, almost to the dot, so this should be interesting. After a breathe and a thorough decant, it unfolds as the minutes go by. The nose, which even just opened was expressive, is now blooming from the glass with hints of violets but bacon-fat is right on its heals. And dummy me pouring it a little too cold to start likely muting some of those deeper notes… but as it warms those fleshy notes and rich textures are coming to the fore. — 9 months ago

Shay A

9.3

Always fun to celebrate a birthday with a birth year bottle! I opened a bottle of this a few months back and couldn’t believe how good it was.

Coming from the famed Caldwell vineyard, this has such a bright eucalyptus note! Deep red/black in the glass with no bricking! Dusty fig, sweet espresso, dirty red and black berry fruit. Even after following from bottle over 3-4hrs, this has a natural cool/minty vibe alongside dark cocoa and sweet black cassis. So much youth and tannin! I should have spaced my two bottles out…these are still cruising! — 2 years ago

Pablo Montoya

9.2

Nice red color with an intense berry flavor — 4 years ago

Shay A

9.4

Finally getting around to posting wines from my annual Napa trip from two weeks ago. Always goes by quick! Lots of fun new stops this year.

It was my first time trying Moone-Tsai wines aside from their widely distributed Napa Valley Cab, so some of these were totally brand new to me. Melka is the winemaker.

Much more rich and dark fruited compared to the Howell Mountain. This is a blend of vineyards from Pritchard Hill, Caldwell (Coombsville) and St Helena. Very Pritchard Hill like on the nose with herbal crunch, savory graphite and cassis, oozing blackberries and cherry liqueur. Once on the palate, it channels its Coombsville fruit displaying a touch of licorice, candied blue and black fruits, baking spices and espresso. Big, but slightly more approachable than the Howell. — 7 years ago

Christian Ramers

9.7

Bottle that looks like Aunt Jemima. Velvety, beautiful finish. Tastes better than Schwetty balls that choke me like sword-swallowing circus performers. Happiness follows with every swallow. — 8 years ago

Dario Scimeca

9.4

This is drinking extremely well after just a pop and pour. You can see on the side of the bottle that it’s thrown a ton of sediment. Still easily in the drinking window. Underrated winery. — 8 years ago

with Heather

Donna Fauerbach

9.6

2011 vintage holy crap amazing - paired with our fav Spanish food from Xunta Caldwell AWESOME!! — 8 years ago