In the past, I had not yet tasted the pape Clement or other such wines. No, this year “the wine of the year” is indeed a QPR superstar, but not the king, it is the 2014 Herzog Cabernet Sauvignon, Special Reserve, Alexander Valley. There is the return of the 2018 Chardonnay but in a far drier format. 2005 Four Gates Syrah, Special Reserve – Score: 91 I did post about the time I crashed the Alice Feiring visit to Four Gates, which is almost fully documented in the last chapter of… The 2015 reds are all poor quality and the whites are not much better, in 2015 and 2016. The finish is long with mouth coating tannin, bittersweet chocolate, tobacco, and sweet herb. Drink by 2020. The finish is long, green, with loads of more tobacco, plum, and rich mineral, graphite, and hints of barnyard under the foliage and forest floor! Today, sunday, Wine Tasting Guy needed a break from the family madness and wanted to put in some professional time.  I have heard very good things about the Santa Cruz Mountains based “Four Gates winery”.  Given its reasonable proximity to where I’m staying and the winemaker’s warm and gracious personality, I made the 50 minute drive down south to visit Benyomin at his winery. The nose on this wine is lovely, as it opens, it is ripe to start with loads of fruit, mounds of finesse, and sweet oak, with rich mineral, herb, black fruit, with a bit of red in the background, and lovely graphite, and spice. 2010 Brobdignagian Petit Verdot – Score: 91 This wine is 9 years old and it looks young. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Bravo!! It’s, you know, it’s not a survivor like Cabernet, which can just grow anywhere and thrive even when it’s neglected. The finish is long, sweet, spicy, cloves, cinnamon, and toast. The rest of the wines are the normal suspects, but this year’s crop, like last years, is really impressive. It might be a prudent idea to reserve a party slot for a thief or one of its variants with ample thieving skills to sniff out and deal with the danger ahead. I’m French and I moved a few months ago to San Francisco. Almost every container is trapped as well. Disclaimer – do not blame me for posting this AFTER Benyo sold his wines. Opens in a new window. The nose is incredibly redolent with loads of peach, rich herb, mint, oregano, along with freshly peeled almond, walnut shells, with crazy wildflowers, white flowers, honeysuckle, and loads of hay and straw. four gates winery santa cruz • four gates winery santa cruz photos • four gates winery santa cruz location • four gates winery santa cruz address • four gates winery santa cruz • four gates winery santa cruz • New in 2021 will be the 2018 Four Gates Negrette, a unique wine that was nice. 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Kosher Mid-Range aging red wines may well be the sweet spot for the kosher wine market - lots of WINNERS. I was asked to wait on my post until after the sale of the wines this year. Get a move on, there was not a huge production of this beauty! I have written many times about Four Gates Winery and its winemaker/Vigneron Benyamin Cantz. Bravo!! Drink until 2021. The last one was the epic 2015 Shirah Gruner Veltliner. The wines are kosher for Passover and not Mevushal. Drink 2020 to 2027. The wine is GREAT, but for 70+ dollars, not worth it. I have written many times about Four Gates Winery and its winemaker/Vigneron Benyamin Cantz. I have enjoyed the 1996 and 1997 versions of Benyamin’s wines and it is because of his care and control that he has for his vineyard. Overall, the night was fine, it was just not at the level I had hoped for. It may be the QPR wine of the year or sometimes it will be a wine that so distinguished itself for other reasons. So, as is my custom, as many ask me what wines I like of the new releases, here are my notes on the new wines. I must say that as annoyed as I am from how few people age their wines, and how early they drink young wines, I have been seeing a new desire for well-aged wines. First, you have the 2016 Four Gates Cabernet Sauvignon, followed by an N.V. Four Gates Pinot Noir, 2016 Four Gates Merlot, and two 2019 Chardonnay wines, both under the Four gates label. Benyamin’s wine, Four Gates. Tags: Ayala, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Four Gates Winery, Frere Robaire, La Rochelle, Merlot, MPSZ, Pinot Noir. Kosher WineKosherWine.com is one of the largest online stores for kosher wine. This wine is a blend of 54% Malvasia Bianca and 46% Chardonnay. Four Gates Winery 831-457-2673. I also included some of the best wines I tasted this year – they are at the bottom. Others, while lovely on release may well not be the everlasting kind of Four Gates wines. That is a hotly debated subject, but IMHO, in the world of kosher wine, there were FAR more best wine options in the 2014 vintage than any other vintage in the past decade. Lovely nose of ripe melon, lovely lemon curd, with green and yellow apple, and spice galore. The wines on the list this year are all available here in the USA, in Europe, and a few can be found in Israel, as well. The finish is long and green, richly acidic, menthol galore, herb, coffee, loads of tart red fruit, and more smoke. 2020 kosher wine year and decade in review - glass half empty, 2013 Eagle’s Landing Pinot Noir (the 2015 and 2016 were too ripe for me). Though the flaw was only recognizable on the nose but not at all on the palate. Yes, you are now thinking, wait the first vintage of Four Gates was 1997, no? The finish is long, black and blue, with dirt, and tobacco galore, with anise, and root beer. It has great deals and a TON of kosher wine, and has free shipping for a case. Lovely! So, when I had the chance to taste the newly released 2007 Yarden Blanc de Blancs Late Disgorged alongside the normal 2007 Yarden Blanc de Blancs I was really excited! The finish is never ending with green notes, roasted herb, incredible drying tannin, with a deep fruit base followed by the mineral, black fruit, earth, graphite, and rich spice, cloves, and dark chocolate. 2003 Four Gates Merlot – Score: 93 Bravo!!! The New Zealand and American Pinots show characteristics that are more akin to Syrah then Burgundy – fruit forward, meaty wines with soft caressing tannins. It had been planted with wine grapes in the 1880s, but the original vines were pulled up during prohibition. The finish is long, sweet, with notes of sweet cherry saver candy, tobacco galore, with nice spice, crazy fruit structure, loads of leather, and earth. Of course, it includes the 2014 Mourvedre, which is also being released a single varietal under the Ayala label. The KFWE/KFWV 2021 results are in – the glass is half-empty, sadly. Say, Pinot Noir to me, and sadly I can only think of: Posted in Israeli Wine, Kosher French Wine, Kosher Red Wine, Wine, Wine Tasting, Comments Off on A Horizontal of 2013 Pinot Noirs and other top Pinot Noir to buy now, Tags: 1er Cru, Alexander Valley, Butcher's daughter, Cabernet Sauvignon, Covenant Winery, Damien Gachot-Monot, Domaine Chantal Lescure, Domaine Roy, Dundee Hills AVA, Eagle's Landing, Four Gates Winery, Gush Etzion Winery, Gvaot Winery, Hagafen Winery, Hajdu Wines, Herzog Cellars Winery, La Colina, Landsman, Maison Roy & Fils, Makom, Merlot M.S.C., Pacifica, Pinot Noir, Prix Reserve, Shirah Winery, Tura Winery, Twin Suns, Vitkin Winery, Yarden Winery. Red. Also, in terms of score, it did not beat out the Von Hovel Rieslings of 2014 or the 2014 Tour Blanche Sauternes, or the 2015 Chateau Giscours, or the 2014 Chateau Smith Haute Lafitte. Gates Services. The Brobdingnagian was slightly riper and fruit-forward than the Four Gates, but both were quite enjoyable, with the Four Gates taking home the medal. Nice! The mouth on this medium-bodied wine is elegant, showing more of the feminine nose, with more blueberry, black plum, nice spices, good salinity, a lovely mouthfeel, and nice green notes that give way to more blue and black fruit. Skyview WineSkyview wine is a great place to buy those medium to high priced, hard to find, kosher wines and spirits. For Passover seders, with those four cups to fill, the NV Four Gates Pinot Noir might be the choice to pair with brisket or roast chicken, or to speed you happily through the evening. Four Gates Kosher Estate Bottled wine is a perfect gift for Purim or Passover. The wine is unique, old world, and truly wonderful. The mouth on this full bodied wine is ripe and opens slowly with rich layers upon layers of sweet fruit, followed by earth, tilled loam, with green notes galore, sweet blackberry, plum, with concentration and rich extraction that gives way to layers of mouth coating tannin, vanilla, and spice. Also, there are a few lower scoring wines here because of their uniqueness or really good QPR. 2013 Four Gates Cabernet Sauvignon, Monte Bello Ridge, Betchart Vineyard – Score: 94 It is funny how the media can change people’s perspectives, and in some cases twist it in a way that we would not expect.  Say Pinot Noir and most wine drinkers will think of the enigmatic anti-hero Miles Raymond, and his explanation on his love for Pinot Noir; “…It’s, uh, it’s thin-skinned, temperamental, ripens early. They have changed the bottle, but the style is really the same, tight, neat, clean, with minimal work, showing bright and really refreshing. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. I grow Chardonnay, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Franc on 3.5 acres. The nose on this wine is even crazier than the Chevalier, showing more umami and soy sauce if that is possible, with incredible finesse, showing massive power, but great mineral and concentration, with black and red fruit, foliage galore with tar and roasted animal. They were, a 1997 Four Gates Pinot Noir and a 2005 Four gates Merlot. There will be no rose wines on the list this year – blame that on the poor crop or rose wines overall, they did not even crack the interesting list. Bravo!! WOW, how this wine changed from when we tasted it in the barrel. I have heard very good things about the Santa Cruz Mountains based “Four Gates winery”. This past year, I think I am pretty sure about my state on kosher wine overall. I must say, in hindsight, I should have done it earlier, as some of the wines were already past their time or DOA. Now, separately, I love red wines, but white wines – done correctly, are a whole other story! WOW!!! The finish is long, green, and tobacco-laden, with leather, chocolate, tar, and rich roasted herbs. New Zealand, has really taken the lead in bringing the grape into the 21st century. Yes, it is back!! But dry white wines from elsewhere in the world was sadly lacking. The finish is long and green, with foliage, mushroom, vanilla, sweet oak, spice, with menthol, mineral, graphite, sweet red fruit, and acid plays well together. The variety is what drew American photographer Robbin Gheesling to document some 140 of them in a book, "Wine … This is not the first time we have been spoiled by Benyo and his wonderful wines. Washington Jewish Week January 29, 2015. There is no bricking, beautiful dark red, showing nicely. Also, this year, we were given a bounty of top wines and finding the list this year was really a task of removing then adding. So, yes, that means that the top wines of the year are both made by Royal wines, such is life, and I could care less for the most part. Overall, the wines were fun and quite enjoyable. The rest of the wines are the normal suspects, but this year’s crop, like last years, is really impressive. Four Gates Winery information page with winery and vineyard description, contact details, list of Four Gates wines produced, website links, and information about wine retailers and … 2012 Four Gates Ayala Santa Clara Valley Red Bordeaux Blend. Lovely nose, impressive elegant and old world nose, peaking with a blackcurrant showing blackberry and lovely smoke and tar. The mouth is medium bodied with rich extraction, rich currant, red fruit, with dirt in the background, wrapped in rich and searcing tannin mouthfeel, with roasted herb, and rich tobacco that is backed by elegance and control, blackberry, plum, that gives way to dark chocolate epic control, foliage, and oregano that lingers long with graphite, pencil shavings, and rich leather. Instant downloads of all 1417 LitChart PDFs (including Gates of Fire). Other than maybe Yarden and Yatir (which are off my buying lists – other than their whites and bubblies), very few if any release wines later than Four Gates. Thank goodness Shirah is back with an exceptional 2018 Gruner Veltliner! First of all OMG are you kidding me!!!!! The ageless 2005 Syrah is now at its end, and it showed mid-world in style and was a true joy! The Best Wine of the year goes to a wine well worthy of the title. Please enjoy this bit of respite as we wish you a happy, healthy and safe Pesach/Passover! Though true terroir flavors are hard to replicate outside of Burgundy, many countries have been successful at bringing out the true fruit characteristics that the land is willing to share and are creating wonderful Pinot Noirs. That was not MY choice. The finish is long, green, with more violet, floral notes, nice spices, and good oak. Simple, it is a great wine, and then throw in its WINNER price, and this wine punches at two levels, at the same time! You just need to click 4 at any point during the boss. Posted in Kosher White Wine, Kosher Wine, Wine, Wine Tasting, Tags: Bianco Umbria, Camuna Cellars, Eccelenza, Four Gates Winery, Gruner Veltliner, High Vibes, M.S.C., Merlot, Shirah Winery, Tasting Room, White. The grapes he sources from his vineyard, that he personally tends to, are; Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot. If last year, I thought the roses were pure junk, this year, you can add another nail in the coffin of rose wines, IMHO. I did the cellophane wrap trick and it mostly worked. The mouth on this full bodied wine is rich, layered, elegant, lovely, with green notes, lovely foliage, sweet oak, with sweet cherry, raspberry galore, and crazy Benyo acid, with smoke, vanilla, hints of mushroom (which will show more with age), earth, and loam. The Drappier which is mevushal has been a Drink-now style wine, and again Drappier prints the dosage date, so use that to decide if the bottle in front of you is too old. Let us be clear, all of us that got used to 18/26 dollar prices and stocked up on his wines in those days should be happy. Posted in Israeli Wine, Kosher Dessert Wine, Kosher Red Wine, Kosher Sparkling Wine, Kosher Wine, Wine, Wine Tasting, Tags: Blanc de Blanc, Bonnet-Ponson, Brut, Brut Nature, Cabernet Franc, Domaine Netofa, Four Gates Winery, Hagafen Winery, Hajdu Wines, La Rochelle, Late Bottled Vintage, Late Disgorged, LBV, Merlot, Monte Bello Ridge, Port Style Wine, Rose, Yarden Winery, Zero Dosage. Many people have been wondering Kyaddondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is not in town amidst the debate on the proposed amendment of Article 102 (b) of the Constitution on presidential age limit. Drink from 2023 to 2035, 2015 Chateau Lascombes – Score: 94. The mouth on this medium body, is great layered and rich, green, spicy, and rich with concentration, with sweet oak and sweet dill galore, with green notes, loads of foliage, showing dried strawberry, ripe raspberry, black forest berry, all wrapped in mouth coating and drying tannin, with earth and spice. However, the Yarden sparkling wines age far better, IMHO. The finish is long, and richly green, with nice spicy notes, leather and scraping mineral, showing bright and ripe fruit that is impressive, elegant, rich, and layered, with licorice, graphite, and forest floor that lingers long. Saved by Heather. Before you set foot in this tower be aware that there are traps galore found throughout, especially in the lower labyrinth levels beneath the tower. Of the recently tasted Four Gates Merlot wines, the 1997 vintage shows a very old world style. The nose is redolent with black and red fruit, graphite, blackberry, raspberry, with absurd barnyard, lovely mushroom, rich loamy earth, along with lovely oak influence. My many thanks to Benyo for sharing his wines and allowing me to truly enjoy what age can do for a wine that has the potential to improve from long cellaring. The finish is long and rich, with sweet notes, black olives, and cinnamon. Lastly, the fact that he sold out his year’s stock of wine in 7 minutes or so, tells you that his wines are in demand and that the prices will reflect that. Review of Four Gates Pinot Noir 2009 and Westland American Single Malt Whiskey. Drink up!!! Nice Drink until 2025. While the 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon shows a very new world style. Downtime and lost production can cost millions of dollars a day in the oil & gas industry. Also, Four gates Winery and Benyamin Cantz (which are one the same), never saw or knew my notes until I posted them today. 2010 Four Gates Petit Verdot – Score: 93+ There is a new off-dry 2017 Rishona, along with an Ayala 2017 Chardonnay, and the always constant, and epic 2017 Four Gates Chardonnay. The color was also, lighter in color, and I loved how the 2007 cork was already very crushed, while the new late-disgorged wine showed a perfect sparkling wine cork. The 2016 Pape Clement, while better, is a total ripoff for what it is. Benyamin Cantz founded the Four Gates Winery on a hillside in the Santa Cruz Mountains … This is a blend of 2014 and 2015 vintages. That said, the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes he receives from the Monte Bello Ridge shows the same care and love in the wines we have enjoyed since 2009. The finish is long and lovely, with saline, mineral, tobacco, refined dark chocolate, and rich mushroom. Finally, we opened a 2010 Four Gates Petit Verdot. 2014 Herzog Cabernet Sauvignon, Special Reserve, Alexander Valley – Score: 92 to 93 (QPR Superstar) There were a few exceptions, and they were all Chardonnays, but to me, the winner in that story (dry white wine that was not a German Riesling), was the 2015 Herzog Chardonnay, Reserve, Russian River. The nose on this wine is lovely, ripe, with lovely roasted animal, blueberry, with loads of black fruit, and slight oxidation. This was the first Syrah that Four Gates Winery has ever released, and maybe the best one so far. Thank you for your enthusiasm for Four Gates wines. My take away from them was that they are a DRINK NOW style wine. In the end, as you watch that horrible movie, you quickly realize that Miles was simply projecting in a fire fueled rambling and using Pinot Noir as his conduit. We grow Chardonnay, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Franc grapes that are certified organic by the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). I wanted to make this post short and sweet – so the criteria are simple I could care less about price, color, or where it was made. It is truly great to see the kosher wine world opening up to white wines of variety and complexity, and not just another Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc. 2013 Four Gates Frere Robaire – Score: 94 These are the wines I liked, there are two other wines that will be sold, but I am not a fan of them, I am sure others will be. The wine notes follow below – the explanation of my “scores” can be found here: NV Ayala Chardonnay – Score: 90 The fact that he raised prices, is a matter of basic price dynamics, and classic supply and demand. Some of these wines are available in the USA, some only in Europe, and a few only available in Israel. However, over the past year, those have been covered, and they were a serious letdown. To the French, Pinot Noir is called Burgundy – following the tradition of French wineries to name their wines after the region where the grapes are grown. I have immense faith in Benyo’s wines that are sourced from his vineyard and the Monte Bello Ridge vineyard. Hagafen and Vitkin have left me wanting more, and forget the rest of Israel’s Pinot Noirs. It has lasting power. This wine is a classic Benyo special, what a wine, this is crazy fun, what a rich floral, raspberry nose, with violets, rich tart fruit, with cherry, chocolate, mushroom, and foliage galore. The mouth is rich and layered with an incredible finesse of perfection, richly extracted and incredible with rich mineral and saline that is so perfectly hedonistic it is impressive, with chocolate heaven, showing earth, loam, finesse, and elegance beyond explanation, showing soft yet focused with a tight-mouthfeel, with rich raspberry, blackberry, ripe plum, all focused and concentrated with perfection. I could care less about price, color, or where it was made. To pair with his 2010 Four Gates Petit Verdot, I opened a 2010 Brognagian Petit Verdot, a wine made by Jonathan Hajdu, the first Petit Verdot he made, just like the Four Gates was also Benyo’s first Petit Verdot in 2010. Drink from 2019 to 2027, NV Four Gates Cabernet Franc – Score: 93 The finish is long and green with focus and power, showing dark chocolate, foliage, with scraping mineral, graphite, and mounds of earth lingering long. The mouth on this wine is starting to show its age, with nice dirt, blue and black fruit, with loads of tar, lovely acid, and mouth coating tannin, that is still feeling well, but the wine is losing its speed. I never asked for higher prices, but when asked the value of his wines, the real answer I could give was more than 26 dollars. Many thanks to Eli for getting the food together and to Beryl, Greg, and Ari for hanging out with us, and of course many thanks Benyo (AKA Benyamin Cantz) from Four Gates Winery for sharing from his wisdom, time, and wines with us all. Yes, you are correct, however, Benyamin also made an entire vintage in 1996, however, because of liquor licensing reasons, he was not allowed to sell, but we sure enjoyed MANY of them for years! Sure there have been crazy cult wines, like the 2005 and 2006 DRC wines, or some other such rarities. The 2013 Eccelenza, Bianco Umbria is a unique wine, one that was made in very small quantity and is a super QPR wine. The Laurent Perrier was also having serious age issues here, as the Champagne was not moving fast enough here in the USA. I have enjoyed the 1996 and 1997 versions of Benyamin’s wines and it is because of his care and control that he has for his vineyard. Drink from 2022 to 2040. The Golden State Of Kosher Wine From huge operations to boutique wineries, some gems from California. Throw in the incredible number of kosher European wines that are coming to the USA and being sold in Europe and this was truly a year of bounty for European kosher wines. The law of Supply and Demand tells you that the prices will go up, even if I beg for lower prices. We are blessed with a bounty of good wines – just not like a few years ago when that bounty included many 95 and 95+ scoring wines. We also opened two oldies from Four Gates Winery and they were as always showing wonderfully, though one of them was initially corked. I did not bring a camera or notebook (though a camera would have been a good idea) – instead, we simply sat, chatted & sipped his 2005 “MSC” Merlot. There are also interesting wines below the wines of the year, think of them as runner-up wines of the year. This wine is a blend of 70% Verdicchio, 30% Malvasia. The mouth is old world, wow, give me a break, in ways the wine is crazy better than the Warneke (Special Edition), but with years the Warneke will pass it. Bravo! The new Chablis is also nice, as is the Shirah Whites. Wines / Spirits / Beers / Food / Games.
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