Ripe, somewhat spicy, cherry to plum fruit flavors, with just a touch of stewed tomato in the background. A great pasta companion, especially if it's a tomato sauce version. Very, very good and amazingly mature and complex for the price. Plum and cassis fruit with a mildly herbaceous note in the aftertaste. The six years of aging both in cask and bottle is rare for a wine in this price category and makes the bargain all the greater.
Case purchases highly recommended.
It all happens from 11am to 5pm and all of the wineries have special activities taking place that day, ranging from the pouring of special library wines, to live music, to special hors d'oeuvres. And there's an optional and very special gourmet wine dinner available on Saturday evening. Murphys is a great little Sierra Foothills town with lots of other things for tourists to do. There's a great historic hotel downtown, lots of antique shops and more. And now he's planting a vineyard with roots that go back to 79 AD, the year Pompeii was destroyed by a volcanic eruption.