Viewpointe Cabernet Merlot 2002 Review
Sat 2, Jan. 10
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2002 BALANCE POINTE- Cabernet Merlot – Viewpointe Reserve Wine
Winemaker’s Notes:
A nose of intense chocolate and tobacco with flavours of plum, ripe cherry, spice, vanilla and cedar. Full bodied and bold with a velvet finish.
Aroma: Deep cherry, cassis, leather, smoky oak, chocolate and an earthy character
Palate: Dry with good acidity, mid weight plus. Big palate follows the nose, adding rich almost fat mouth feel, ripe tannins and raspberry on the mid palate.
Food Pairing:
Beef, Gorgonzola Cheese and dark chocolate.
VQA Lake Erie North Shore
13.6% alc./vol.
Price: 750 mL $29.95
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This wine is big in every way.
Nose is big on cherry and oak. Taste follows the nose, cherry, leather and burnt oak. It is rich and full flavoured. It’s a smooth wine with tannins and have softened over time giving the wine a wonderful mouthfeel.
Had this wine with a roast. Paired well. Would do well with a big BBQ’ed steak too.
This wine is pricey (for a local wine) but well worth trying. It’s different from most other local Cab / Merlot blends that I have tried and in a good way.
This is a must buy wine when visiting the winery.
This is the best red wine I have ever had in my life. I bought 3 bottles of this wine and will buy more.
Appearance: this is one dense garnet colored wine with a nice ruby edge.
Aroma: the nose lets you know that this is going to be a full bodied wine. A firm earthy note, a very heavy scent of dark berries and a pleasing touch of cherry, sweet cedar, dried spice, cigar box. I think we could play the game ‘what do you smell?’ with this wine. The more I smell this wine the more I like it.
Flavors: good thick dark berries coat the palate, rich soil earthy style, dark chocolate (80% type). If you like a bold, rich, and thick red wine this is it.
Mouthfeel: dry oak and smoky aftertaste, thick lingering blackberry notes coat the teeth and gums, and the aftertaste does linger. The tannins and acidity are under control probably from aging.
Overall, I really like this wine. This could go on my favorite list. I love fuller bodied reds and this would be a good example of what I like.
I bought this last month but, I’ll be emailing them to see if they have more