Rick's Wine Cellar Selections - E-F

Easton Shenandoah Valley Zinfandel 2004
Easton
Shenandoah Valley
Zinfandel
  2004 
   
Château du Domaine de l'Eglise
  Pomerol
  Bordeaux
  1989  
  1996 December 25, 2011 (Magnum)
 
 
Edgewood Estate Winery St Helena Triangle Napa Valley Malbec 2002 Napa Valley Premiere 2004
Edgewood Estate Winery
  St Helena Triangle
  Napa Valley
  Malbec
  2002
  Napa Valley Premiere 2004
   
 

Elan Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 1995

Elan Vineyards  
  Visited Elan during out Napa Wine Experience 1998
  Elan Vineyards Wine Label Library
  Atlas Peak Napa Valley
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  2002 - July 24, 2011
  2001 - September 04, 2010
  1997
  1996 - - May 20, 2003, Mar 7, 2003, July 4, 1999, Feb 9, 2006, Aug 17, 2006,  December 9, 2007, December 16, 2007, August 25, 2008,  March 14, 2009, March 23, 2009, September 10, 2010
  1995 - March 12, 2009
  1994 - Oct 27, 2001, 12/5/04, 12/19/04, May 22, 2007
  1993
  1992
   
Elan Vineyards
  Atlas Peak Napa Valley
  Merlot
  1995
  1994
   
  Voila!
  Napa Valley
  Melange
  1994 - Jan 23, 2000

 

 

Elderton
  Command
  Barossa Valley
  Shiraz
  2003 - August 20, 2008 - RM 94 RP 95 Robert Parker/Wine Advocate #167 Oct 2006. While the deep plum/ruby/garnet-tinged 2003 Shiraz Command is slightly less nuanced than the 2002, it is just as powerful and full-bodied, offering copious quantities of fruit, glycerin, tannin, and muscle. This chewy, rich offering appears to be on a faster evolutionary track than its 2002 counterpart. Give it another 2-3 years of bottle age, and consume it over the following 12-15.
  2002 - May 16, 2006
Parker:95    'Full-bodied, opulent, and viscous, with huge, but sweet tannin, decent acidity, and a muscular, long, 40+ second finish, this is a classic, potentially long-lived, Barossa blockbuster.' Spectator:93    'Rich, dense and velvety, distinctive for its blueberry, boysenberry and spice flavors, shaded with subtle cocoa and tar notes, lingering beautifully on the subtle, generous finish.' CellarTracker:93.0    'Score based on 42 tasting notes from 32 reviewers' Int'l Wine Cellar:92
  2001 - August 20, 2008
 

Wine Advocate #161 (Oct 2005)  Robert Parker 95 points  Drink 2005-2020. The 2001 Shiraz Command exhibits a slightly more roasted character than the 2002 as well as a hint of espresso in the nose, a touch more alcohol, and more elevated tannin. It also possesses tremendous concentration, intensity, and power, yet remains remarkably well-balanced and pure. This 3,000-case cuvee is one of South Australia’s great classics. It should drink well for 15 years.

Elderton Shiraz Barossa Command 2001 $US74 : One of Australia's modern classics, Command is a big Shiraz that does not go over the top. Its silky tannins and rich flavors add up to an arresting wine, a seductive Shiraz that oozes with rich cherry, plum, exotic spice and meat flavors that linger against grace notes of chocolate and espresso. Delicious stuff, and it's built to last. Drink now through 2020. 96 points;" Harvey Steiman, Wine Spectator 

Ashmead Cabernet Sauvignon
  Ashmead Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 - WA 96 - Review - “Ashmead” is sourced from 70-year-old vines yielding a microscopic 0.5 tons per acre. The wine was aged for 18 months in 100% new French hogsheads (300 liter barrels). Purple in color, this sensational Cabernet has a splendid nose of pain grille, graphite, leather, black currant, and blackberry liqueur. Full-bodied and voluptuous with hidden tannins, this beautifully balanced wine will develop with 8-10 years in the cellar and drink well through 2035." WA
Elderton Ashmead Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2005

 

Elderton
  CSM
  2000
  Barossa Valley
  Cabernet, Shiraz, Merlot
 

Elderton
  Friends
  Barossa Valley
  Shiraz
  2003 - Mar 3, 2006
 
   
Elyse Napa Rutherford Petit Syrah Rear Label
Elyse
  Napa Valley
  Rutherford
  Petit Syrah
  2004
  Cabernet Sauvignon Port
   
 
   

Errazuriz Wild Yeast Chardonnay 2009

Errazuriz
  Casablanca Valley, Chile
  Wild Yeast
  Chardonnay
  2009  

Etude
  Napa Valley
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  1997 Steve Tanzer International Wine Cellar - 92-95 - Good medium ruby. Musky aromas of raspberry and espresso. Dense, sappy and bright; a compelling combination of sweetness and verve. Raspberry and coffee flavors lifted by a floral element. Finishes with thoroughly ripe tannins and impressive purity and persistence. A superb sample.
       

Estanica
  Monterey County
  Chardonnay
  Reserve
  1997
   
   

Estanica
  Monterey County
  Pinnacle Chardonnay
  Reserve
  1997
  Double magnum
 
   

Chateau L'Evangile
  Pomerol
  Bordeaux
  1994
 
 

Fantesca Estate & Winery
  Visited Fantesca during our Napa Wine Experience 2007 and 2009
  Fantesca Featured Producer Page on Rick's WineSite.
  Spring Mountain
  Napa Valley
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  2007 - Allocation has shipped - stay tuned for review.
  2006 - September 11, 2009
  2005 - November 15, 2007
  2004 - November 15, 2007, July 5, 2008, October 16, 2008, January 23, 2009
  2003 - May 7, 2007, November 15, 2007
  2002 - Sept 20, 2006, Oct 15, 2006, May 2, 2007, November 15, 2007
Label - Fanesca Estate Chardonnay 2005
Fantesca Estate & Winery
  Los Carneros
  Napa Valley
  Chardonnay
  2005 - May 7, 2007, November 15, 2007
   
 
Fantesca Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2008
Fantesca Estate & Winery
  Sonoma
  Russian River Valley
  Chardonnay
  2009
  2008 - May 22, 2010
  May 22, 2010 - Fantesca Estate & Winery  (Heidi Barrett) Chardonnay 2008 - RM 92 points: A symphony of well integrated and smooth crisp, bright, flavors of tropical fruit, lychee, with an under current of citrus and a pleasant long lingering finish. Heidi Barrett's first chardonnay from Duane & Susan Hoff's Fantesca. Taken BYOB to dinner. Fantesca Estate & Winery is one of our McNees WineSite featured producers.  http://cellartracker.com/w?872831 

 
   

Fantesca King Richards Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2007

Fantesca Estate & Winery
  King Richard's
  Russian River Valley
  Pinot Noir
2008 - http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1044739
2007
   

Fantesca Estate & Winery La Petite Soeur 2007

Fantesca Estate & Winery
  La Petite Soeur
  Napa Valley Spring Mtn District
 
Entirely the creation of celebrated winemaker Heidi Barrett, a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petite Verdot and Petite Syrah
2007 - http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=1044739
 
 

Chateau de Fargues Lur Saluces
Sauterne
Bordeaux
1981
   
Chateau Faugeres St Emilion Grand Cru 1998
Chateau Faugeres
  Bordeaux
St Emilion
  Grand Cru
1998

 Flowers Sonoma Coast Chardonnay

Flowers
  Sonoma Coast
Chardonnay
2007
   
   

Foxen Block 8 Bien Nacido Vineyard Santa Maria Valley 2006

Foxen
  Central Coast
Santa Maria Valley
Pinot Noir
2006
   
   

Gary Farrell
Sonoma
Bien Nacido Vineyard
  Block Eight
Pinot Noir
2006
 

Chateau Faugeres
Bordeaux
St Emilion
Grand Cru
1998
WS 91 Fantastic aromas of berry, chocolate and cherry. Full-bodied, with silky tannins and a long, long finish.
 
 

Ferreira
  Vintage Port
  1980
 
Fidelitas
Optu
Columbia Valley
Red Wine
2002

 

Chateau Figeac
  Premier Grand Cru Classe
  St Emilion
  Bordeaux
  2000, 1995, 1990, 1989,
  1988 - July 3, 1998
  1985
  1982 - June 3, 2001, Earlier, May 14, 2005
  1981
  750, 1500, 3000
 
Fisher Vineyards Coach Insignia Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1999
Fisher Vineyards
  Coach Insignia
  Napa Valley
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  2000 - Sept 29, 2004
  1999 - Nov 19, 2003, Mar 12, 2003,
Feb 22, 2003, May 25, 2008
  1998 - Apr 17, 2003
  1991
  750, Magnum
 
Fisher Vineyards Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon 1982
Fisher Vineyards
  Sonoma County
  Mayacamas Mountain
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  1982
 

 

Fisher Vineyards Coach Insignia Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
 

Flinders Run Shiraz 2005 Label on Rick's WineSite

Flinders Run
Southern Flinders Ranges
Baroota, Australia
Shiraz
  2006 - 92 pts Robert Parker Jr.'s The wine Advocate (JM)
Opaque purple-colored, it offers up a nose of toasty oak and blueberry compote that jumps from the glass. Full-bodied, corpulent, round, and layered, it delivers a big mouthful of blueberry fruit with notes of licorice and chocolate followed by a long, pure finish. Leave your thinking cap at home and enjoy this hedonistic effort for its fleshy, in your face style.

92 pts Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar (JR)
Inky ruby. Powerfully scented bouquet of dark berries, smoky minerals and fresh flowers; this is really fragrant. Spicy black raspberry and cassis flavors stain the palate and are enlivened by zesty minerality. A strong iron note carries into the impressively broad, long finish.

91 pts Wine Spectator
Toasty, savory flavors dominate, offering charred meat, spice and bread crust aromas and flavors around a core of ripe blueberry, plum and cream, finishing with polish.
2005 - April 13, 2008, April 24, 2008 May 21-22, 2008, September 19, 2008, November 11, 2008  
RM 93; RP 95; WS 91; IWC 92 - RM - Dark inky colour. Medium to full bodied, elegant rich symphony of flavors of sweet currant, pepper, vanilla, spice, red raspberry, blueberry and a lingering essence of creme brulee' and cedar on the soft finish.  RP review - "...aged for 18 months in French and American oak hogsheads with 50% new staves. Purple/black in color, the wine exhibits a big, brooding bouquet of pain grille, pepper, Asian spices, blueberry, blackberry, and licorice. This leads to a full bodied (15.2% alcohol), super rich plush wine with layers of spicy black fruit flavors, excellent balance, and a long pure finish. For a wine this size, it is remarkably light on its feet. Give it 2-3 years to more fully evolve and drink through 2020. This is quite a debut for Flinders Run." 
WS - "Dense and peppery. A lively mouthful of dark-hued fruit and spice, lingering on the clear, focused, juicy finish. Fine tannins frame this nicely. Best from 2009 through 2015. 2,000 cases made." (WS)
International Wine Cellar - "($32) Glass-staining ruby. Explosively perfumed nose offers a surreal array of dark fruits, oak spices, flowers and minerals. Fat but focused, with intense, spicy blackberry, cassis and floral pastille flavors. Gentle tannins add structure but can't contain the wine's expansive, sweet personality. Gains strength on the long, sappy finish. This has enormous immediate appeal." (IWC)
Winery Notes
Attractive deep purple, red with rich complexities of spicy berry fruits with subtle vannillan oak. A full flavored wine with berry and licorice characters to the fore, soft tannins giving it a nice lingering taste. A robust wine for hearty food. – Mike Farmillo – Leading Winemaker Boars Rock. Exhibiting rich ripe berry fruit characters, the colour of black cherries completed by toasty American and French Oak flavours achieved from lengthy barrel maturation. The palate is rich, round with spicy flavours and balanced tannins.
  2005
 

Flora Springs
Trilogy
Napa County
Cabernet Sauvignon Blend
  2008 Flora Springs Napa Valley Trilogy 2008 -  July 7, 2012
  2004
  2003 - RM 91 WE 91 CS - March 11, 2007
2002 - March 11, 2007
  2000 - January 10, 2004
1997
  1991
       

Flowers
Camp Meeting Ridge Vineyard
Sonoma County
Pinot Noir
1997

 

 
 


Fonseca Guimaraens Vintage Port 1995 label on McNees.org/winesite
Fonseca
  Fonseca Vintage Port Wine Label Library
Vintage Port
1997 - International Wine Cellar 93 pts - "Full saturated ruby. Inky, brooding aromas of syrupy black fruits and violet. Dense, thick and tactile, with superb depth of flavor and compelling juicy sweetness. Finishes with powerful tannins and superb grip. Not as flamboyantly aromatic as this wine normally is in its youth, but structured for long, slow development in bottle. 93(+?) pts."
  1990
  1985
1982
  1977 - Wine Spectator:100    'Web only review - Deep ruby, with ripe raspberry and cherry aromas, full-bodied, with layers of concentrated, sweet raspberry flavors, tons of tannin and an incredibly long finish.' CellarTracker:95.7    'Score based on 60 tasting notes from 45 reviewers' Parker:93    '...The 1977 has developed magnificently in the bottle,..' Broadbent:****    '...sweet, glorious flavour, perfect...'
  Guimaraens Vintage Port - 1995
   
 
Clos Fontindoule
Monbazilallac
1990, 1982
 
Forman Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1990 label

Forman
Napa Valley
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  1990- Parker 92  - '..super-expressive nose of blackcurrants, licorice, and vanillin. With a beautifully etched, medium to full-bodied feel, exquisite concentration, decent acidity, and firm but soft, sweet tannins, this is a graceful, authoritatively flavored'.
Chardonnay
2000
   
Four Graces
Willamette Valley
Pinot Noir
2003 - July 15, 2006
 
Frank Family Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

Frank Family Vineyard
Napa Valley
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  2010
Chardonnay
2004 - June 18, 2006
Zinfandel 2004 - May 8, 2006
 
 
Peter Franus
Napa Valley
Mount Veeder
Brandlin Vineyard
Zinfandel
2003
Frederick
Washington State
Spring Valley Vineyard
Walla Walla Red
2002
  Tasting - Dec 28, 2005
Blend of cabernet 70%, merlot, 20%, cabernet franc 9% and petit verdot 1%
Also see 'Uriah'
       
Freeman Ryo Fu Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2006

Freeman Russian River Valley Pinot Noir 2006
Freeman Vineyards &  Winery
Sonoma County
Russian River Valley
Chardonnay - Ryo Fu
  2006 - July 24, 2011
Pinot Noir - April 3, 2010
2006

Freemark Abbey
  I met Jeff Jaegar, then one of Freemark Abbey Partners, also of Jaegar Vineyards and Rutherford Hill at Binny's tasting in Naperville in early 90's. Jeff was kind enough to let go of a Six Liter Imperial Rutherford Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 1981 from his cellar library to commemorate Erin's birth-year wines selection served at her wedding!
Visited Freemark Abbey during our
Napa Wine Experience 2002 and Freemark Abbey Winery Napa '09.
See Freemark Abbey Label Library.
  Napa Valley
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  2010
  1997
  1995 - Oct 8, 2006 
  1994, 1991
 
Freemark Abbey
  Bosche Vineyard
  Napa Valley
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  1999, 1992, 1991, 1990 1986, 1985
   
 
Freemark Abbey
  Sycamore Vineyard
  Napa Valley
  Cabernet Sauvignon
  1999, 1998, ,
  1997- Jan 21, 2006
  1992, 1991
  1989 - Jan 21, 2006
 


Freemark Abbey Napa Valley Edelwein Gold Sweet Johannesburg Riesling 1982
Freemark Abbey
  Napa Valley
  Edelswein Geld
  Sweet Johannesburg Riesling
  1999
  1982
  Zinfandel
  Mt. Veeder Carneros
2007 -
January 29, 2011
   
 
 
Fritz Russian River Valley Chardonnay 2008
Fritz
  Russian River Valley
  Chardonnay
  2008
   
   
   
 
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