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Grapelive New Producer Update: Dos Lagos Vineyards, Better the second time around! By Kerry Winslow 2008 Dos Lagos Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon, Atlas Peak, Napa Valley. Tom and Marcie Dinkel have again proved to be a star of the vintage, after last year’s amazing effort, this one might even be better, as the 2008 Dos Lagos shows more life and complexity. Tom Dinkel credits his vineyard team lead by Hector Lopez, with doing a monumental job under stressful and difficult conditions, for getting perfect grapes to famed winemaker Robert Foley to craft this amazing wine. The 2008 Dos Lagos Cabernet is dense and richly textured with powerful tannin structure and ripe flavors, leaving no doubt to Foley’s talents in making a blockbuster wine, though while the alcohol is near 15.5% it is a balanced Cabernet in the modern style. The nose is full of blackberry, mocha and pencil lead, with hints of vanilla and tobacco leaf, before a lush palate of currant, cassis, blackberry and plum fruits with a thick creamy body. There is added depth with hints of rocky mineral, dark chocolate and cherry liqueur, plus a touch of minty black licorice. This extreme vineyard site produces only tiny yields so there is not much of this intense wine available, all of which makes this Cabernet a rare find, and one that continues to get better with each vintage under the deft touch of an artisan Cabernet master ($125 Est.) 95 Points, Grapelive.com |
"A gorgeous Cabernet to drink now with a perfect steak." |
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Join us at the San Francisco Vintners Market at Fort Mason in San Francisco Saturday and Sunday Nov. 20th and 21st, 2010. San Francisco Vintners Market |
Polo Ponies and Cabernet! Come to the Polo Events and Wine Tasting on Sunday, Sept. 26th in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. We will be poruing Dos Lagos Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 07, by winemaker Robert Foley, and Robert Foley Petite Sirah 07! All day event, so check the link below. Polo In the Park and Wine Tasting |
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Come join in on the fun! The Vintners Wine Market is in San Francisco is Nov. 20th and 21st, Saturday and Sunday at Fort Mason. We will be in the Reserve area. Come join us! Napa Valley Wine Library 48th Annual Tasting Cabernet Varieties: A Celebration of 50 Years of Cabernet Winemaking. NVWL Annual tasting With over 90 wineries pouring, this event takes place on Sunday August 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Grove at Silverado Resort, Napa. Vino Moda Angel Island Wine Festival features Dos Lagos Vineyards San Francisco Bay Area, May 1st, 2010 See you there! |
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Grapelive Special Review March 14, 2010 By Kerry Winslow 2007 Dos Lagos Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley The 2007 Dos Lagos is a deep and thickly concentrated Cab with solid structure and fruit intensity with a black/purple hue that coats the glass. The palate is ripe, but focused showing massive black fruits and pure Cabernet character, leading with blackberry, dark currant, plum and blueberries before array of background flavors unfold. Interesting creme de cassis, mocha, cedar spice, cigar tobacco and violet like perfume all come across in layer after layer with powerful tannins holding things together, though thankfully they are not harsh or distracting from the wine and I am sure as it is still a very young wine will fade in time to allow much pleasure over the following 5-10 years. Bob Foley, ex Pride, and maker of top Napa Cabernet like his own Claret, Switchback Ridge and Hourglass seems to have fallen in love with the terroir at this rugged Atlas Peak location, and after tasting this vintage, I think he is on to something big here. ($125 Est.) 95 Points, Grapelive.com Full Special Report Here |
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Inaugural Dos Lagos Vineyards Atlas Peak Cabernet Sauvignon is Bob Foley's latest project 14 March 2010 by Annette Hanami Dos Lagos Vineyards is the latest of several notable mountain cabernet sauvignon wines Foley has been making for over 25 years including Pride Mountain and Paloma from Spring Mountain and his own label Robert Foley Vineyards from Howell Mountain. Foley has been farming on the eastern ridge for over twenty years and made his name as winemaker at Pride on the western ridge for 15 (as well as owning blocks on Mount Veeder and Diamond Mountain) so he understands the potential power and density of cabs growing at high elevation, rocky sites probably better than anyone else. Full Article Here |
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Inaugural Dos Lagos Vineyards cab released By David Stoneberg STAFF WRITER, ST HELENA STAR Thursday, March 18, 2010 The white and gray volcanic rock on Tom and Marcie Dinkel's property is called "tuff." It is hard to grow grapes in this ground with the topsoil measuring about four inches, the soil drains quickly and the vines dont get a lot of water. Winemaker Bob Foley describes the terroir and its effect on the four-acre Dos Lagos Vineyards, 1,650 feet up Atlas Peak Road: " Cabernet sauvignon grown in this volcanic tuff series geology produces remarkably expressive wines of profound extraction." Full Article Here |
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For information about the Dos Lagos Vineyards please contact Marcie at: Email: Phone (707) 278-4080 Fax (415) 358-4534 Copyright by Dos Lagos Vineyards 2009-2010 |