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- Drew - 10-24-2001
This was a nice surprise. Dark black ruby, almost opaque. Wonderfull nose of mature plum,currant and vanilla. Good start, middle and long finish, well balanced. 13.5% Alc/vol. $19.99 Good value.
Drew
- thewoodman - 10-24-2001
Was this really a Sierra Foothills appelation wine? Ironstone, at least up until a year ago (the last time I was at the winery), had a habit of putting "Sierra Foothills" (where the winery is located) prominently on their bottles, while "California", the appelation, was down below. The winery in Amador (maybe Tuolumne) County is very impressive and really plays to tourists, but there are very few vineyards, most of their grapes are trucked up from the Central Valley. The wines are not bad, but it always smacked of deception to me. The last time I was at the winery, they had hang tags on the bottles that the BATF made them put on to describe reality.
- Drew - 10-25-2001
Woodman, you might know better than me on the geographical appelation issue. I've never seen an Ironstone Reserve, long vertical black background with raised gold lettering narrow front label. The rear label states, "The Reserve Wines from Ironstone Vineyards are personally hand selected from our top vineyard sites by Director of Winemaking, Steve Millier. This 1997 Sierra Foothills Cabernet Sauvignon was aged in small American and French oak barrels for 24 months with an additional 12 months of bottle aging before release....." Bottled 9-9-99. No mention of California anywhere on the bottle except the small address of Murphy's, CA. I've never been impressed with Ironstone wines except their Cab Franc, QPR fav. and when the wine store owner "forced me to taste this wine" I became impressed.
Drew
Drew
- EPICURUS - 10-25-2001
Ironstone is finally getting its act together. The current release Cab Franc is exceptional.
I think the reserve wines do come from the Sierra Foothills (the regular cab consists of grapes from the SF and Lodi, not the Central Valley).
Murphys is located in Calavares County by the way.
- thewoodman - 10-25-2001
It makes sense that the reserves are from the foothills, but the regular bottlings seem puprosely deceiving. I had Calaveras County bracketed pretty well anyway [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img]
- Innkeeper - 10-25-2001
Am usually fond of their cab franc wherever it be from. Glad to hear the current release is up to par.