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June 06, 2005
Bogle 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon
[CrushingGrape] Bogle has a reputation for high quality wines at affordable prices. The Bogle 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon is no exception. Made in the fruit forward ‘New World’ style, this wine offers a bright bouquet of cherries plumbs and black pepper on the nose. As the first taste fills your mouth, you get warm smooth mouthfeel featuring the tastes of ripe blackberries, cherries, and spicy oak.
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[basicJuice] Free Range O'nnay: Amidst the splendor of Monterey County, the HRM Rex Goliath vineyardsenjoy the most optimum growing conditions to create premium CentralCoast Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir. The wines& label art honor HRM (His Royal Majesty) Rex Goliath, who at theturn of the century, was the treasured attraction of a Texas Circus.People came from far and wide to behold the 47lb bird billed as the”˜World’s Largest Rooster’. The label replicates the one of a kindvintage artwork from the circus banner that hung above Rex’s Roost.This new line of attractively priced wines, launched in the summer of2002, showcases the supple fruit-driven style of California’s coastalvineyards.
[Gumption.typepad.com] World Wine Weblog: It's Mother's Day, so we decided to open up some special wine for dinner, to accompany some grilled tenderloin, twice-baked potatoes and spring mix salads. I picked up a bottle of the 2001 Mark Ryan Dead Horse Ciel du Cheval Vineyard red wine (a "left bank" Bordeaux-style blend, with 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc and 10% Petit Verdot -- "Ciel du Cheval" loosely translated from French is "horse heaven", hence the wine's name, "dead horse", but the label assures us that "NO HORSES WERE HURT DURING THE PRODUCTION OF THIS WINE AND IT WAS TESTED ON HUMANS!") shortly after we enjoyed a bottle of his Long Haul (a "right bank" Bordeaux-style blend, with 46% Merlot, 31% Cabernet Franc, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 11% Petit Verdot) at 10 Mercer restaurant the night we saw What the Bleep. We had ordered the Dead Horse, but all the restaurant had left was the Long Haul; although we enjoyed the latter, my appetite was whetted for the former. I tasted some Dead Horse at the winery a short time later, and liked it well enough to buy two bottles (at $35!) but this was my first time pairing it with a meal. It was fantastic, and I'm glad I have another to cellar for a while.
[Vinography.com] Vinography: a wine blog: February 2005 Archives: Dining takes place in one of four main areas of the restaurant, which has an intimate, residential layout, as if this were someone's home who had, just before you arrived, whisked out all the furniture and replaced it with as many tables for dining as possible without quite feeling cramped. The downstairs main dining room holds perhaps seven or eight tables, and just off of this room there is another, darker room with exposed stone walls next to the kitchen and wine cellar which holds a few more. Upstairs, split down the middle by the staircase are two rooms which each hold several tables and, oddly, the restaurant’s washrooms. Most of the rooms are nicely adorned with gorgeous flower arrangements which play off the understated combination of redwood timbers, antique white tongue and groove paneling and window casings, and in places, the exposed stone and brick that must have made up the original building on the site.
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Posted at June 6, 2005 10:31 AM
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