Very brief notes from the lovely release party at Signorello on Saturday afternoon. The food may have been some of the best Mexican food I have ever tasted, and we went through the current lineup, which included the Uvaggio blend (1/3 each of the three major Bordeaux grapes), the 2007 Merlot, and the fantastic Carneros Las Amigos Vineyard Pinot Noir. All showed the lovely, dark, earthy savory/meaty/cedary/tobacco-y character which I love in Signorello wines. There is certainly plenty of fruit, but it is about more than just sweet, goopy fruit. There was great varietal typicite, with the Cab Franc, for example, having that lovely scent and taste of "violets" without too much green pepper.
Sunday, I opened the last? 2003 Signorello Cab, which had loads of sweet dark cherry and plum fruit, scads of tobacco, some smokyness from the oak. Lovely wine...it is now sold out, sadly.
I was also looking forward to a red from the St. George grape (Fresca is the name of the wine) but it was overpoweringly, amazingly, hugely corked. When wet cardboard wafts from the cork, you know there is a problem.
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