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2014 Caliza Winery Companion

Minimum Bid is $31
Ends Sunday, 7pm Pacific

ITEM 10561242 - Removed from a temperature and humidity controlled wine storage unit; Purchased direct from winery

Bidder Amount Total
slick140 $30 $30
$30
2014 Caliza Winery Companion

RATINGS

95Jeb Dunnuck

... This beauty boasts terrific notes of blackberries, blueberries, pepper, and tobacco. It’s ripe, intense, medium to full-bodied, and hits the palate with both richness and elegance. It’s a big, ripe, sexy wine...

92Vinous / IWC

... Expressive, oak-spiced cherry, blackcurrant and floral pastille aromas are complemented by vanilla and candied licorice accents. Sweet, seamless and broad in the mouth, offering plush dark berry liqueur, cherry and spicecake flavors and a repeating vanilla note. Shows impressive power and appealing sweetness on a long, juicy finish that features subtle, slow-building tannins and a touch of cola.

REGION

United States, California, Central Coast, Paso Robles

Paso Robles AVA is midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, and it is considered one of the West Coast’s most exciting winemaking regions. With its hot, sometimes searingly dry and sunny weather, it is especially good country for growing warm climate grapes such as Syrah, Grenache and Mourvedre. Because many Paso Robles wineries have been successful with blending these grapes into Rhone Valley-style wines, it is known as the Rhone zone of California. The AVA was created in 1983 and there are 32,000 vineyard acres. In late 2014 the AVA was divided into 11 smaller sub-appellations, so starting with 2015 vintages labeling will become more specific on Paso Robles wines, which will now also list sub-appellations. Located in San Luis Obispo County, Paso Robles, the town and its surrounding area, was traditionally a farming and ranching region. But from a few dozen wineries in the early 1990s to more than 200 today, the area is quickly becoming known for wine and risk-taking winemakers.