Iron Oaks Winery

Windy Oaks Estate

Estate Cuvée Schultze Family Vineyard Pinot Noir 2015

Light ruby hue. Aromas of cherry, cream, grass, minerals, and smoke. Medium-light body, soft tannins, and plus acidity. Bright and balanced with a lasting finish. A little tight at first, but softens after opening a while with hints of vanilla on the palate. — 4 years ago

Cayuse Vineyards

Bionic Frog Walla Walla Valley Syrah

Color - dark purple garnet. A bold expressive funky perfume fruit nose so classic of Cayuse with mineral-meat, smokey and mint notes lingering with a vanilla toast scent. Juicy and elegant; rich with dark plum-cherry flavors intertwined with a smokey soil bacon bitters taste—the mineral-iron characteristics follow with a tobacco long finish. Looking forward to seeing how the flavors change with different foods and as the wine opens up. Bionic Frog is favorite and definitely a wine to try and store in your cellar. Christophe Baron does it again! — 5 years ago

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I love Cayuse wines. what’s with the funky?
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Horsepower Syrahs are the only ones I’ve had with more funk than Cayuse.

E. Guigal

La Landonne Côte-Rotie Syrah 1997

Tawny and almost opaque. Masculine heavy nose. Notes of black fruit, earth and iron. Rich and silky. Needed 4+ hours of air to open up. Light finish maybe representative of the vintage. Pretty good. No need to hurry on these. — 7 years ago

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Wind Gap Wines

Windsor Oaks Vineyard Pinot Gris 2012

Marc Stubblefield
9.2

A savory juicy textured herbal food pairing champ. Like cooking sous-vide with an immersion circulator, what was once a geeky oddity has found a permanent home on our table. Not a universal solution, but really the right tool for the job in certain situations. Like pan seared halibut with fennel or spring vegetable risotto. — 8 years ago

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Thierry Allemand

Chaillot Cornas Syrah 2011

Extremely pure fruit. Raspberrys, iron, iodene. Very pure, intense and long. Lovely juice. Young with great herbaceous notes. In a few years this will be gorgeous. — 10 years ago

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Alain Graillot

Crozes-Hermitage Syrah 2009

My favorite producer of Crozes Hermitage. Deep dark color with black cherry, creosote, iron, game bird, garrique very complex, spicy, black pepper on the finish. Need to buy more of this vintage. — 11 years ago

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Windy Oaks Estate

Proprietor's Reserve Schultze Family Vineyard Pinot Noir 2007

Jim Schultze is a fantastic Pinot artist - I opened this as I read they opened a new tasting room http://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=103403 — 12 years ago

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Domaine du Pegau

Cuvée Réservé Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhone Blend 2004

Stunning nose of brambly dark red fruit and black tea. Bacon fat and scorched clay on the entry followed by a broad beam of melted tannins and fig, iron, Provençal spices and lavender. 45+ second finish. Outstanding, another great bottle though now at its apogee (but likely to stick around and turn to burgundy over time). — 5 years ago

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@LM Segal “ Turn to Burgundy” spot on.

Iron Horse Vineyards

Ocean Reserve Blanc de Blancs 2015

The perfect wine for shrimp appetizer and lobster tail dinner. — 5 years ago

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Iron Horse Vineyards

Thomas Road Vineyard Pinot Noir 2016

Bonnie’s favorite Pinot Noir, with good reason. It’s just beautiful. — 6 years ago

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Iron Horse Vineyards

Russian Cuvée Champagne Blend

Bought this in 2014 from Lsat Bottle. Should have bought more, it was a steal at the time and it has gotten even better in the last 5 years. Not too acidic, good amount of yeast, and overall excellent sparkling wine. 69% Pinot Noir, 31% Chardonnay — 7 years ago

Windy Oaks Estate

Terra Narro Pinot Noir 2016

Great wine. Will definitely buy again — 7 years ago

Jolie-Laide Wines

Windsor Oaks Vineyard Pinot Gris 2014

Marc Stubblefield
9.3

I love this wine. I love this wine because it exists all the way at the 'painstakingly clean and precise' end of the skin-contact spectrum. Don't get me wrong, I love the super-natty wild and wooly and of the spectrum too. But this. This is so purely and exactly what it sets out to be. And I love it. — 9 years ago

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Gail

Windsor Oaks Vineyard Cabernet Franc 2013

Truly exceptional cab franc @bittertannins! #californiarising
#grenachedelicious
— 11 years ago

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Vinny love.

Domaine Jamet

Côte-Rôtie Syrah 2017

Hot iron, iodine, olive tapenade, beef, creosote, curing salt, pink peppercorn, talcum, garrigue, scorched earth, granite, black raspberry liquor, grapefruit, crushed cherry, creme de cassis, rose petals. Ripe, full of flesh with sinew to back it up, found the balance quite remarkable here. The sun and warmth is felt in the generosity, but the tannins and acidity are well within reason. Granite and iron still at its core. — 5 years ago

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Iron Horse Vineyards

Estate Green Valley Pinot Noir 2014

Beautiful winery that also produces bubbly. Medium bodied pinots that are well balanced w nice fruit. — 5 years ago

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Domaine Auguste Clape

Cornas Syrah 2009

Beautiful vintage for Clape that is open & drinking well showing black cherry, kirsch, pepper, iron, licorice & violet. — 6 years ago

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Dominican Oaks

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2013

I’m not usually a cab fan but this one is hard to resist. Deep garnet color; lots of legs and a big fruity flavor. — 7 years ago

Two Shepherds

Windsor Oaks Vineyard Mourvedre 2013

Juicy and bolder than the ‘12, but still plenty of acidity and loads of red pomegranate,red currant, and other red fruits. Stone notes, too. This is a terrific addition to a dinner. — 7 years ago

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Fair Oaks Ranch

California Zinfandel

Good zin! Yummy! — 9 years ago

Iron Horse Vineyards

Fairy Tale Celebration Cuvée Champagne Blend 1998

#delicious @ironhorsevynds #impressive #weddingcuvee — 10 years ago

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1998! Impressive that it's still holding up...
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ridiculous. I was expecting crap - so damn impressive

Trinity Oaks

California Cabernet Sauvignon

Best $8.00 bottle of wine I've ever had. Very smooth and tasty. — 11 years ago

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Château de Beaucastel

Châteauneuf-du-Pape Red Rhône Blend

1999 is the choice for the Iron Bowl. #WarEagle. Tons of black cherry, leather. I really like where it is drinking now. — 11 years ago

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Red Newt Cellars

Tango Oaks Vineyard Riesling 2011

Olga Tuttle
9.8

We had the pleasure if meeting Kelby the winemaker when he was in town last summer. We really enjoyed the wines from the Finger Lakes. — 13 years ago

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9.4% alc by vol ❤
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It's an AVA still on my to-do list...