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2007 Chalk Hill Proprietary Blend Estate Blend
Proprietary Blend: 375ml
$34.99
points awarded:
WA 95 WE 95Alex Lallos, JJ Buckley, February 2011
Super dark color borders on black at the core with a deep crimson rim. On the nose, aromas of blackberry, currant, and mint surround secondary notes of herbs, baking spice, and oak. Blackberry, kirsch, and vanilla dominate the palate, framed by a touch of cedar. Muscular and deeply concentrated, the finish is long and strong, with tannins that continue to build. Mouthwatering stuff! Age this a year or two before drinking, though it can go for 10 or more.
95 points,
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, February 2010
Perhaps the finest Estate Red to date is the 2007. Its dense ruby/purple hue is followed by blackberry, cassis, cedar, and licorice characteristics, supple tannins, a more accessible personality, full body, and admirable purity, texture, and length. Drink this beauty over the next 2-3 decades.
This may be the finest portfolio of Chalk Hill wines I have yet tasted. All are super-impressive with beautiful purity, balance, texture, and complexity. There are just under 200 cases of one of the rarest dry white wines readers will find in California. Barrel samples of the 2008 Estate Red and Syrah Estate look nearly as impressive as the 2007s.
95 points,
Wine Enthusiast, November 2010
Made in the modern style, this Cabernet-based Bordeaux-style blend was aged in mostly new French oak for 20 months, so it shows plenty of toasty, oaky notes. It's softly delicious, with tiers of raspberry, cherry, red currant, milk chocolate, violet and dried herb flavors, wrapped into the smoothest possible tannins. An extraordinarily beautiful wine for drinking now and the next 4-5 years.
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