Colorado
Wine News
Colorado
is home to many of our finest customers, and as such,
we deeply value the reviews of local wine enthusiasts. The following
review appeared in the April-June 2007 issue of the Colorado
Wine News Magazine, written by Harold J. Baer, Jr.:
"The 2003 Merlot Cuvee,
$28, 850 cases, is a blend of 75% merlot, 11% cabernet sauvignon,
8% malbec, and 6% sangiovese. It spent 34 months in oak: 85%
French, 15% American, 35% new, and was bottled unfined. Still
tight, it is soft on the palate with sweet accented plum, cherry,
currant, black raspberry, and fine tannin. The long, medium-broad
finish adds mild pepper at the back. Well balanced, structured
and integrated, it needs a year to open and show at its best."
"The 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon,
Los Chamasal Vineyard: Sonoma Valley, $45, has aromas of earth,
meat, Bing cherry, and leather. Flavors of cherry, cranberry,
raspberry, rhubarb, earth and meat are laced with dry tannin
and finish medium-long and medium-broad with some alchohol at
the back. A well put-together Cab' to pair with food."
"The 2003 Red Rex,
Sonoma County, $20, is an unusual blend of 38% cabernet sauvignon,
24% syrah, 22% merlot, 8% cabernet franc, and 4% each of sangiovese
and malbec. It spent 34 months in oak, 35% new, and has jammy
blackberry and chocolate on the nose to introduce smooth, sweet
flavors of blackberry, raspberry, chocolate, boysenberry and
sweet smokey oak laced with fine tannin. The long, medium-broad
finish adds persistent pepper. Well balanced, structured, and
integrated, it pairs nicely with food. Tasty."
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| Texas
is one of our biggest markets. We've been selling our wine in
Texas for about 5 years and thanks to the work of our distributor
in Texas, South-Tex
Wine Distributors, and it owners,
Steve and Karen Struve, we have had great success getting out
wine to the sophisticated wine lovers in Texas.
Below
is a review of several of our wines by Bear
Dalton of Spec's
Wines and Spirits in Houston. Specs is not only
the largest wine retailer in the state but one of largest, if
not the largest, independent wine retailers in the United States.
Bear
is their head wine buyer. If you don't get by Bear you don't
sell your wine at Specs. He has been at this a long time and
has a great palate. He tastes hundreds of wines per month, runs
a wine competition for the Houston Rodeo besides many seminars,
classes and events. He has a dominant personality and it is
an honor to know him.
We
meet for lunch one day in Houston's Shade
restaurant (It's in the heights and I can recommend this place),
where we sat and talked shop and drank Deerfield wine. Bear
was taking notes but I had no idea he was preparing a review,
and a nice one at that. Thank you, Bear.
The
next time you're in Houston, stop at Spec's. They are opening
other stores around Texas, Austin amongst other cities, so seek
one out in your town. They are a great wine shop with really
good prices. You'll note that the prices listed in Bear's review
are typically lower than at the winery. We don't cut them any
special deals, they just work on a low markup.
Speaking
of the Houston Rodeo (Officially known as the Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo), We won a GOLD
MEDAL in the 2007 Wine
Competion at the Rodeo for our 2002
Super T-Rex
Robert
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