Colgin Herb Lamb Vineyard 2002 Douro muscular ripe berry and baking

muscular ripe berry and baking spice flavors balanced by a medium to firm level of finely grained tannins and crisp acidity

This moderately powerful effort is shaped by dense but fine tannins and is a wine that should amply repay extended cellaring

Interestingly this is even spicier with its own very broad array of spice elements that seemingly change with each whiff of the markedly ripe nose

The old vines are very much in evidence as there is a true abundance of palate soaking dry extract that imparts a velvety mouth feel to the mid-palate and buffers the very firm tannins on the youthfully austere

This is a champagne made for tenderness and pleasure

Colgin Herb Lamb Vineyard 2002 Douro muscular ripe berry and bakingThe 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Herb Lamb Vineyard is a wonderful wine on its own merit, but by no means is it as impressive as the other three efforts from Ann Colgin and her husband, Joe Wender. This wine has an opaque plum ruby color, a scent of unsmoked, high class tobacco, underbrush, spice box, black currants, chocolate and espresso. It is seriously endowed, elegant, and again, fully mature, but without the nobility, complexity and sheer class of