The Wine Hand

Kumeu River

Kumeu Village Hand Harvested Chardonnay 2024

vintage 2024 | True to type — 12 days ago

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Sleight Of Hand Cellars

The Archimage Reserve Columbia Valley Red Bordeaux Blend 2019

Very nice blend of Cab Franc and Merlot. Plums, blueberries and leather. — 4 years ago

Layer Cake Wines

One Hundred Percent Hand Crafted South Australia Shiraz 2015

like a neighbor with a seductive surprise...
like strawberry on a summer evening...
its like wow, where did you come from...
is that juniper is smell...oh who cares?
great wine...
— 6 years ago

Sleight Of Hand Cellars

Upland Vineyard The Sorceress Grenache 2015

Visited the winery in Walla Walla and this wine is a winner with full strawberry aromatics and solid acidity. Can use more time in the bottle but is hard to resist drinking now. Well made from quality fruit. — 8 years ago

Cigar Box

Old Vine Hand Harvested Pinot Noir 2020

Clear, medium ruby in color with a garnet rim; on the nose, it's clean with pronounced primary and secondary aromas of cherries, hibiscus, and wood smoke; on the palate, it's dry with medium acidity, low tannins, medium alcohol, medium body, and pronounced primary and secondary flavors of raspberries, dried leaves, and cranberries with a long finish. This wine is complex and intense. Overall, I rate this wine as very good. — 5 months ago

Nellie Bauman
with Nellie

McGuigan

Hand Made Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2017

Very nice nose, deep flavours of chocolate and a little bit of raspberry go well together.
This is a big flavoured wine with both the acid and tannin to let it last much longer, and thus will cellar for more years.
— 3 years ago

Sleight Of Hand Cellars

The Funkadelic Syrah 2016

Fun and exciting - dad brought for thanksgiving. Having with green Chile stew. — 5 years ago

Dave RostkerBrian Broxson
with Dave and Brian
Brian, Bobbi Jo and 1 other liked this

Sleight Of Hand Cellars

The Spellbinder Red Blend 2017

These are crafted with such elegance.

Straw berries and slight Smokey tones, a nice nose.
After. 4 hour decant, this is a medium bodied Claret, with a elegant fruit, berry and pit. Solid backbone, small tannins, yet enough to complete this. The acidity straightforward, and long.
— 5 years ago

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Love the decanter!
Trixie

Trixie

I concur with Sharon. Artistic decanter.

Bird in Hand

Nest Egg Cabernet Sauvignon 2003

This was quite a surprise. While not the giant backbone you’d expect from a Cali cab, it had a nice Viscosity on the pallet and a longer finish. The tannins not fully integrated for its age, with a higher acidity level. Drank more like a Bordeaux blend. — 7 years ago

Serge, P and 5 others liked this

Bird in Hand

Sparkling Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir

Loistava viini seurusteluun. — 8 years ago

Sleight Of Hand Cellars

The Archimage Columbia Valley Red Bordeaux Blend 2012

Cab Franc 49%, Merlot 48%, Cabernet 3%. Good blend. I have been consistently impressed by this producer and how the wines age. This is tasting at the right moment. Baked blackberry, black pepper, sour cherry. It’s good, but drink now. — 6 months ago

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Sleight Of Hand Cellars

The Psychedelic Stoney Vine Estate Vineyard Syrah

Blood and iron. High acid. Roasted tomato. Well made. Good food wine. — 8 months ago

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Tenuta Il Poggione

Brunello di Montalcino Sangiovese 2012

Founded at end of 1800 when Lavinio Franceschi, Florence land owner, visited the area. Over a century later, Tenuta covers an area of 530 hectares (140 planted with vines; 50 with olive trees). Aged in French oak for 36 months, 100% Sangiovese hand picked from 20-year old vines. A Gem! Deep Ruby. rich berry fruit aromas with complex spice. Palate has rich berry fruit flavors, baked cherry, with tobacco, cacao & subtle spice. Soft tannins, long finish ending with seductive earthy tones. Nice, aged well! — 5 years ago

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Cigar Box

Old Vine Hand Harvested Malbec 2018

Easily drinkable Malbec. Dry with a smooth finish and low acid. Will buy again. — 6 years ago

Rockford

Hand Picked Eden Valley Riesling 2017

This was crispy and fresh with a fairly acidic finish. — 7 years ago

Jeff RoachJennifer Hesse
with Jeff and Jennifer

Caves Saint-Pierre

Le Fiacre du Pape Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend 2016

The 2016 is out - and it doesn’t disappoint!!!Medium-bodied but mouth filling showing freshly picked cherries, leather and bacon fat. A memorable finish. One of my favorite wines, one of the most reliable. Huge QPR and one you should always have on hand. A little pricey for an everyday house wine, but it’s always worth it. On the downside it went up $1 and is now $21...... — 8 years ago

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