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Latest News February 3rd, 2012
Hospice du Rhone 22 Questions with Jeff
February 2nd, 2012
HdR 1: First wine ever made?
JC: Elderberry wine from a kit.
HdR 2: Do you have a name for your press? If so what is it? JC: No name for the press.
HdR 3: If you had to choose another region to craft wines in what would it be? JC: Martinique
HdR 4:...
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Tasting Notes Archive
2004 California Cuvée Syrah
"Every year we at JC Cellars we are given an opportunity to blend wines from mostly younger plantings of our various vineyards throughout the state. This is a wine for the table. Ready to drink now or to lie down for 1-3 years. It's always interesting for us to blend together our different vineyards and see how the combination takes on a life of its own, this year was no different. Tasting Notes The California Cuvee always contains a great spice backbone of white pepper from our Ventana vineyard. An amazing cherry and raspberry core from the Fess Parker vineyard, followed with ripe tannins and a mocha/smoke finish from Musci and Shannon Ridge vineyards. So versatile a wine that it can be paired with any of your favorite foods, or drink well on its own.
2006 JC Cellars California Cuvee Syrah ($25) A
utility infielder, this full-bodied Syrah from winemaker Jeff Cohn has
the dark fruit and body to take on grilled meats and most tomato-based
sauces, as long as the sauce's chile heat doesn't burn down the barn.
Cohn - who began his wine career with Kent Rosenblum at Rosenblum Cellars
- left in 2006 to focus on his Oakland winery. This is blended from
multiple vineyards and appellations, resulting in a deep, rich
California-style Syrah. Ripe aromas and flavors of blackberry, loam and
pepper with generous lashings of oak. Includes 21 percent Petite Sirah.
It offers plenty of meaty, peppery notes with hints of smoke and
spice. Soft, fleshy, medium to full-bodied, and seductive, it should be
enjoyed over the next several years.
This Syrah offers a sweet perfume of blackberries and flowers
followed by a medium to full-bodied, tannic, gutsy, robust wine with
impressive purity. This mouth filling, tasty introduction to JC
Cellars' style should drink nicely for 5-6 years.
This wine (primarily Syrah with a dollop of Viognier as well as
Roussanne) exhibits a dense ruby/purple color as well as a big meaty
nose of white chocolate, flowers, vanilla, blackberries, and licorice.
Full-bodied and chewy, with supple tannin, and a long finish, it should
drink well for 5-7years.
The opaque purple-colored 2000 Syrah California offers copious
quantities of blackberry liqueur-like fruit, good purity, a layered
opulent, luscious mouth-feel, low acidity, and sweet tannin. Enjoy it
over the next 5-6 years.
Dark purplish ruby color; attractive, intense, jammy, peppery,
blackberry and black cherry fruit aroma; full body; big dense, very
highly concentrated, jammy, very ripe berry fruit flavors with notes of
green peppercorn and a slightly sweet palate impression; full tannin;
lingering aftertaste. This big wine shows very highly extracted fruit
and is appealing to taste now though deserves several more years of
bottle aging. Very highly recommended.
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