Wooden Valley
Wooden Valley Winery & Vineyards
Miscela
Red fruits(raspberries, plum, slight herbal on the nose, chocolate note at the end, little dill, medium + acid, good mouthfeel, soft tannin, 44$ syrah, 36% mouvedre, 20% petite syrah 14.4%. I likey👍 — 4 years ago
Yannick Amirault
Les Malgagnes Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil Cabernet Franc 2018
Dark ruby in color with a reddish rim.
Fruity nose with blackberries, blueberries, blackcurrants, cooked cherries, oak, light vanilla, spices, licorice, light tobacco, coffee, chocolates and black pepper.
Full-bodied with medium acidity.
Dry and fruity on the palate with black currants, blackberries, sweet cherries, plums, oak, licorice, spices, chocolates, dark coffee, pencil lead, earth and peppercorn.
Spicy finish with round tannins and tangy raspberries.
This is a very enjoyable Cabernet Franc from Loire, France. Nicely balanced with a nice mouthfeel and mild complexity.
Would benefit from another few years in the bottle to mature properly, but already very enjoyable.
Good right out of the bottle and better after 30 minutes of airtime. After an hour of airtime tannins come out.
Good by itself or with food. A nice sipping wine. I gave it a slight chill and paired it with cheeses and olives by the pool. Very tasty.
100% Cabernet Franc grapes aged in wooden amphoras for 11 months.
13.5% alcohol by volume.
90 points.
$27. — 6 years ago
Wooden Valley
Suisun Valley Chardonnay 2017
Warm buttered coppery banana. Tropical and heated sun rays. — 7 years ago
Enric Soler
Nun Vinya Dels Taus Xarello 2016
Savory and bright energy, crisp aromatics and flavors. Quite wooden and wonderfully so. If I were blinded on this and I wasn’t being sharp, I might just called this white burgundy. The nuance of tropical florals and fruit twang is there, but well integrated into the wood spice and the amazing texture. Long and regal. — 8 years ago
Wooden Valley
Lanza Suisun Valley Barbera
Bright fruit, good balance, some residual sugar, but enjoyable — 2 months ago
Château Jean Faux
Sainte-Radegonde Red Bordeaux blend 2017
Wooden scents, ripe black berries, mocha, spices (pepper, thyme). Dry tannins pinching the tip of the tongue. Enveloping and warm finish. — 2 years ago
Zlatan
Šibenik Plavac Mali 2015
Incredible, fragrant nose - sandalwood and bursting with black currant, maybe some black tea in there, too. Dry mouthfeel, like wool socks that were kept in a wooden drawer all season and then somehow got left out in the rain. — 5 years ago
Tenuta San Guido
Bolgheri Sassicaia Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc 1997
Tobacco, leather, pencil lead, old wooden boxes. Dark fruits open with decanting. Complex yet balanced finish. — 5 years ago
Equis
Equinoxe Crozes-Hermitage Syrah 2017
Fermented in concrete tanks & large wooden vats, aged for 9 months. Sumptuous Syrah, sometimes overlooked, offering with aromas of fresh sweet berry fruits and hints of floral and pepper spice. On the palate lively blackberry and cherry flavors with black pepper, great mouthfeel. Soft tannins, lingering youthful finish carrying the fruit to the ending. Great value. — 8 years ago
Família Pérez i Ovejero
Martinet Bru Priorat Garnatxa Syrah 2016
Still a baby, but already solid, huge, grippy, powerful and assertive Priorat.
Garnacha/Syrah, fermented in cement tanks with wild yeasts with daily oxygenation. Macerated 10-15 days. Aged in 4000 L wooden vats, 300 L barrels, clay jars & demijohns for 18 months.
Dark inky garnet, scarlet rim.
Intense, invigorating & refined nose of black earth, tar, smoke, pome jam, raspberry pie, charred pine cone, crushed pepper, peppermint, cherry seed, bone fire, caramel, mulberry jam, tobacco, box of matches, mushrooms, pu er tea, licorice, ink, rosemary, volcanic minerals.
Impressive and massive palate. Very full body (14.5%), vivid acidity, grained tannins. Chokeberry, hibiscus, red currant skins, basil, lilac broth, black gooseberry, unripe saskatoon, earth, cigar, roasted cacao beans, lavender, savory, espresso flavors.
Saturated lasting finish of cedar, saskatoon, chokeberry, coffee and licorice.
Paired rib-eye steak finely.
88–89/100 — 6 years ago
Domaine Valette
Vieilles Vignes Mâcon-Chaintré Chardonnay 2014
Incredible wine 👌
Wooden, slightly nutty at smell. Very complexe. Fresh, wood, floral at taste.
Great experience! Sheers 🥂 — 6 years ago
Domaine Guiberteau
Brézé Saumur Chenin Blanc 2014
Quite a bit more wooden and exceptionally denser than I remember this wine. I loved it, but think this Chenin needs time and has much to reveal behind the wood. Hide this away for 10 years. And, I wonder if there are multiple bottlings. — 8 years ago
George Wine Company
Sonoma Coma Pinot Noir 2013
Had a wooden feel to it, is how I would describe it...think I prefer the other George...J thinks should age some more — 8 years ago
Daniel Bloom
From the insane clearance sales of the @plcb, comes this wine for $25. Often you have to tell them what they have in stock, or say…” could you please check in the back?”. Then out comes a sealed wooden, 6 btl case. ( in one instance.). If you’re lucky to hear of the clearance sales, and there’s some things you care for near you it can be great. One just 🤞then prays that the provenance was good.
The 2020 vintage in Priorat was a challenge from what I understand. Wet, with fungus and rot, etc.
The ordinarily Garnacha heavy blend was swapped for 55% Syrah, 34% Garnacha, some Cab. and others. A quite unusual winemaking regiment ensues with large tronchons, cement, and glass demijohns included.
So…this upside down year produced a very lithe, liquorice and mineral wine. Dusky dark fruit on the nose more reminiscent of St. Emillion. Grippy tannins but in harmony. Easy going for Priorat. If you’re lucky to have them, drink or hold ‘em. I feel lucky to have played my part and relieved the @plcb of their burden.
With Randy — 3 days ago