Cardinale, Proprietary Red Vintage:2008 Tangy minerals add lift and

Tangy minerals add lift and cut to a strikingly long

white pepper and mouth scraping salinity on the finish

as expected

Although it is tightly coiled

it will require at least a decade in bottle

Cardinale, Proprietary Red Vintage:2008 Tangy minerals add lift andComposed of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon and 14% Merlot, the 2007 Proprietary Red Wine still possesses a youthful deep garnet purple color and gives up a truly gorgeous nose of crme de cassis, blackberry pie and blueberry compote with notions of Chinese five spice, licorice, mocha and dusty soil plus wafts of cardamom and smoked meats. Full bodied, rich and totally seductive in mouth, it has a firm frame of super ripe, grainy tannins with oodles of