Origin: Lodi, CA
Grape: 90 % Petit Sirah, 7% Cab Sauvignon, 3% Cab Franc
Body: Full
Year: 2014
Alcohol: 15.5%
Price point: $19
Year Reviewed: 2018
Rated in the top 2% of best wines in its class, gives you all the reason to try this one!! On the eyes, this lovely deep purplish ruby wine is as amazing in the glass to look at, as it is to smell and sip. Clean nose of pronounced spices, vegetal flavors, licorice and black cherry. Mettler has been around 5 generations and over 100 years. This Sirah blend is aged 16 months in 4% new and 1 year old French oak.
Medium body and medium acidy with high well-integrated tannins that give a long lingering finish. Slowly sipping this amazing wine, you will savor its complexity, view its long lovely legs, and experience multiple different flavors, with a peppery finish tantalizing your palate with much interest. Some of these succulent flavors are blueberry, black cherry, vanilla, cinnamon, mocha and smoke. Bone dry. Let this get some air for at least an hour so it open up. Quality on this wine and year is outstanding. Will buy again.
Update, so did buy again the 2015 vintage and am very pleased with the same quality of the 2014 vintage. Just a bit different, but still exceptional.