Tasted blind at Farr Vintners 2009 Bordeaux tasting

There is excellent minerality and a relatively refined mid-palate mouth feel despite ample muscle and punch reflected by the bitter-cherry

Laura is a doctor in San Francisco but is already at the helm of the family winery

cool and airy aromas of both red and dark currant

Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions_australia Tasted blind at Farr VintnersRuby red. Aroma of red fruit liqueur. Sweet and nicely concentrated, with good volume but only modest nuance. Shows good freshness and fruit, but finishes with some youthfully tough tannins. Seems distinctly cleaner than a bottle of the '98 I tasted last year. However, my sample of the '99 Cuvee Imperiale was plagued by a raw wood quality that dried its finish. Stephen Tanzer