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NEWSMore great news from Wine & Spirits
Once again Wine & Spirits has seen fit to highlight two of our finest 2005 wines. The Louvau Vineyard Old Vines was awarded the highest score in the zinfandel category with the Todd Brothers Ranch Old Vines also receiving high accolades. 94 POINTS 2005 Dry Creek Valley Old Vines Louvau Vineyard Zinfandel $32 " The Louva Vineyard is now 70 years old, comprised of dry-grown, head-pruned zinfandel vines that John Louvau resuscitated when he purchased the property in 1989. Those vines produced a classic Dry Creek Valley zin in 2005, a bright, substantial wine with subdued complexity that slowly builds with air - and will build over time. Old-fashioned in the best sense, this provides the kind of satisfaction that comes from old vines tended with care. Decant it for grilled sausages on a bed of lentils. " - Joshua Greene
91 POINTS 2005 Alexander Valley Old Vines Todd Brothers Ranch Zinfandel $32 " Grown on 49-year-old vines just north of Geyserville, this is a burst of powerful ripeness, with tannic density and zesty acidity. Balanced on a Port-like scale, the fruit flavors of fig and date hit black, mineral tannins that might relent in the company of a grilled blue-cheese burger. " - Joshua Greene
2007 Top 100 Wineries
One of the “top 100 wineries” in the world (and among the top 27 wineries in California), as cited in Wine & Spirits magazine
“Excellence and consistency are the standards we use to determine our American Wineries of the Year. Our 2007 list represents the top performers from the more than 3,300 newly released American wines we tasted blind at our offices over the past 12 months. The final selection is based on each winery’s high-scoring wines, the average score of the total recommended wines and the percentage of wines recommended from among those tasted.”
Dashe Cellars “Zinfandel has been known to inspire a fiery passion in its devoted fans. For Mike and Anne Dashe, that passion extended beyond making wine. The Dashes met in 1994 when the French-born Anne was working at RMS Brandy Distillery in Carneros. She had studied enology in Bordeaux and had come to the United States in 1991 to work at Chappellet in St. Helena. Mike Dashe, for his part, was the assistant winamaker at Ridge. Shortly after the couple met, he was put in charge of Ridge’s Lytton Springs winery in Dry Creek. The couple married in 1996, the same year they started Dashe Cellars, making a Dry Creek zinfandel at a friend’s winery in Sonoma. ‘We wanted to treat zin as a primary grape varietal, and we still do,’ says Mike Dashe.
That first vintage, the 1996, was the smash hit at the annual ZAP tasting in San Francisco, and by 1998, the Dashes had quit their day jobs to focus full time on Dashe Cellars. Their winery owns no land and instead buys grapes from an intimate network of growers in Dry Creek, Alexander Valley and Mendocino County. A few of those growers, like the Todd brothers in Alexander Valley, tend choice plots of old-vine zinfandel. Dashe’s ’04 Todd Brothers Ranch comes from a 50-year-old vineyard planted on hillsides of red volcanic soil. That soil, combined with the concentrated fruit of low-yielding vines, creates a wine with an intense, velvety structure.
The ’04 Louvau Vineyard, from 69-year-old vines planted on the Dry Creek bench, is similarly powerful. It’s the more feminine of the two, with bright flavors that are floral and cool. Dashe’s ’04 Dry Creek Valley, a portion of which comes from the Bella Estate – Mike Dashe is the consulting winemaker for Bella, also a W&S 2007 Winery of the Year – is generous and warm. It would be perfect with a savory roast leg of lamb.” -Wolfgang M. Weber Winter 2007 Top-Scoring Wines: 2004 Todd Brothers Ranch Old Vines Zinfandel 94 Points! 2004 Louvau Vineyard Zinfandel 93 Points! 2004 Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel 91 Points! Corporate Gift Giving
Corporate Gift Giving Made Easy Dashe Cellars now offers personalized corporate gift services. A perfect present for your valued clients, fine wine is always a welcome and appropriate gift. To make things even more appealing, we are pleased to offer an exclusive 20 percent discount on all of your corporate orders. Featuring convenient door-to-door shipping, attractive wrapping and personalized gift notes, this is a great one-stop-shopping solution. To make your corporate gift giving even easier, you can place your order using our online store option, or our hospitality manager, Errin Leach, would be pleased to personally help you order over the phone at (510) 452-1800. High Ratings from Wine & Spirits
Please check out the recent issues (August, November, and the Special Buying Guide) which highlight Dashe Cellars as one of the Top 100 Wineries of the World! In their recent holiday issue we are one of their Wineries of the Year, due to the consistantly high scores our wines have recently garnered, including these three stand-outs: 94 Points 2004 Alexander Valley Old Vines Todd Brothers Ranch Zinfandel $28 " This wine grows just north of Geyserville, on 48-year-old vines planted on a steep, rocky slope. It maintains a core of the old-vine fruit goes to velvet rather than jam. It's zesty, sappy and tense, the power of the woodland blackberry fruit making a lasting impression. The velvet nap makes it dressy enough for a holiday, whether a Fourth of July cookout or a Thanksgiving turkey with sausage and apple stuffing." - Joshua Greene 93 Points 2004 Dry Creek Valley Old Vines Louvau Vineyard Zinfandel SOLD OUT!! $28 " From 69-year-old head-trained, dry-farmed vines in a rocky old riverbed on the Dry Creek Valley Floor, this is a spicy and cool, zinny and floral, its robust fruit intensity seeming to grow directly out of those old vines. The flavors seem to loop in long acrobatic arcs, their energy following an ornate path, anything but linear..." - Joshua Greene 90 Points 2005 Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel SOLD OUT!! $22 " The soft, meaty tannins of this wine slowly release its zinfadel flavors of sassafras, cool, dark cherry and warm mulberries. It continues to lengthen with air, a Dry Creek edge to the texture that will suit Mediterranean-style roast lamb." - Joshua Greene Wine Spectator gives great ratings to two Dashe wines
July 15th, 2007 92 points Dashe Cellars 2004 Zinfandel Louvau Vineyard Old Vines SOLD OUT !! "Ripe, intense and rich, this is expressive and focused, with black raspberry and black pepper. Toasty oak aromas and jammy black cherry and spice flavors lead to zesty tannins on the finish." -James Laube July 30th, 2007 90 points Dashe Cellars 2004 Zinfandel Dry Creek Valley "SMART BUY" SOLD OUT!! “Big, ripe, and jammy, with an intriguingly rustic, chewy core. Aromas of raspberry, wild berry, and a dash of spice lead to zesty, sweet-tasting flavors of blackberry cobbler and licorice. Drink now through 2011. –James Laube
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