This is seriously yummy stuff. Not to diss Kenneth Volk, because he makes some very, very good tempranillo, but the Coral Mustang Tempranillo is even better. The deep ruby color sets you up for dark fruit and bramble fruit – think blackberries. It’s extremely well balanced with the perfect acid/tannin/alcohol triumvirate. It made Mike take a second long taste to see if he had missed some critical detail. Nope. It’s just rich and satisfying. It’s great on its own but would go well with any dish you want to take off the grill or even a nice little pan-fried
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While the Carmichael Sur le Pont is not technically an oddball bottle of wine. The fact that it is made up of 80 percent syrah means it can be legally called a syrah, and that’s hardly oddball these days. But that other 20 percent of lesser known grapes adds something really special to the final product. We promise tastings of grenaches, mouvedres and carignans in the future. But for now they are all present in the 2005 Carmichael Sur Le Pont, with 14 percent mouvedre, 5 percent carignan and 1 percent grenache. These are all Rhone varietals, meaning they
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