Golden Gate Wine Cellars
2337 Ocean Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94127
415.337.4083 TEL
888.790.9463 FAX
frank@goldengatewinecellars.com
http://www.goldengatewinecellars.com/
Our Motto: Always Drink Good Wine™
Lioco Winery
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I visited with the owners of Lioco this week and we tasted through the entire portfolio.
Out of their entire portfolio I tasted I selected four wines for Frank’s Boutique Wine Selection™ of the week. A few of them will sell out very fast (Charles Heintz Chardonnay and Hirsch Pinot Noir), so hurry!
2006 Chardonnay, Charles Heintz Sonoma Coast
Retail 50.00 – GGWC 43.00
The rich, amber color suggests the use of oak barrels (none were used). The perfume is at once exotic and high toned recalling night blooming jasmine, ginger, and lemon blossoms. But there are deeper, bass-tones too like raw honey and wet slate. The attack is mouth-coating, demonstrating the wine’s prowess through its sheer viscosity. Still, a vibrant acidity cuts through the honeycomb, candied ginger, and lemon peel flavors.
Only 332 cases produced!
2007 Chardonnay, Sonoma County
Retail 23.50 – GGWC 19.99
This wine is a blend from various sites in the creek-bed soils of Dry Creek, Chalk Hill, Russian River Valley and Alexander Valley. This wine is flavorful and aromatic on impact. Very well balanced, and very well priced!
2006 Proprietary Red “Indica” Mendocino
Retail 22.50 – GGWC 18.99
This blend of Petite Sirah and Carignane is a fun Fall/Winter blend from the guys at Lioco. Bright, and lively on its feet. A wine of medium weight and moderate alcohol. Seductive and feminine with flesh in all the right places. Driven by Morello cherries, violets and freshly ground Moroccan spice. Reminds me of a young Dolcetto or a cru Beaujolais.
2006 Pinot Noir Hirsch Vineyard, Sonoma Coast
Retail 60.00- GGWC 52.99
Only 256 cases were produced! Here, Pinot Noir's orchestral prowess is on display. The seductive Mount Eden clone at David Hirsch's property hits octaves so high, you wonder how such an elixir came from humble grapes. It's as though a liqueur was made from rose petals and red raspberries. **LIMITED PRODUCTION**
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