Hill Family Estate 2004 “Origin” Red Wine

Jun 1st, 2008 by admin

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UNIQUE WINE ALERT!: Today’s wine is an exceptional red blend with original flavors and deep aromas. Delicious, too!

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Mission Codename: Divine Origin

Operative: Agent Red

Objective: Sleuth out a superior red blend for our Operatives

Mission Status: Accomplished!

Current Winery: Hill Family Estate

Wine Subject: 2004 Origin

Winemaker: Alison Green Doran

Backgrounder: Red blends can be among the most drinkable, delicious and even fun wines to drink. Blends allow us to put aside preconceived notions of what characteristics a single-varietal wine should have – and let you focus on the flavors, smells and the simpler pleasures of drinking wine. Blends allow the winemaker to craft interesting wines. Today’s wine from Hill Family Vineyard goes beyond interesting and ventures into newer territory, by delivering a wine that is ultra unique, but also tenderly delicious. Read Agent Red’s tasting notes and Mission Brief below for the full story on today’s great red blend

Wine Spies Tasting Profile:

Look – Deep garnet to burgundy with great clarity and a concentrated heart, this wine has a very tight surface appearance and some of the skinniest legs we have seen on a red blend

Smell – Very compelling and super aromatic with varied fruit then spice than fruit again as waves of cherry, warm baking spices, blackberry, clove and smoky plum wash over you. This is a wine that is hard to keep your nose out of long enough to taste!

Feel – Soft and round and very light at first, then the wine grips gently at the outer edges of your tongue with its smooth but balanced tannins, and delicate yet also serious texture

Taste – This wine is deeply layered and wonderfully concentrated as it delivers powerful – but not overpowering – bright flavors of cherry, raspberry and cassis with darker follow-on flavors of blueberry cobbler, light toasted oak and mild spice

Finish – A super long finish in the mouth, as flavors change from sweet and fruity to more lightly-tart, leaving behind a final whisp of soft spice and edible flowers

Conclusion – What a great wine this is… We Wine Spies have it rough, I know, with so many wines to taste each day. A key indicator of a wines greatness is apparent when we finish an entire bottle of a particular wine. Our sample bottle went fast, with each spy present at the tasting going back for seconds or thirds. While you know of my personal fondness for single varietal wines, my senses really do appreciate a really skillful red blend like this fabulous wine from Hill Family Estate!

Mission Brief:

The Hill Family could not be more qualified to make great wines. Since common wisdom holds that great wines are made in the vineyard, Doug Hill seems uniquely qualified, for his 25+ year wine odyssey started with him tending vineyards in the Napa Valley.

As vineyard manager for more than a thousand acres vineyards, Doug was responsible for the meticulous care of grapes for the finest wineries in the Napa Valley. His stewardship of the vines, it could be said, led to the creation of the finest of wines.

It was only natural that Doug should one day create his own wines, from his own vineyards – and that those wines should, of course, begin life in the vineyards themselves.

Today, the wines that the Hill Family Estate produces are grown in fields tended by Doug himself. Each of Hill Family’s wines show the care of the man and the character unique to each vineyard.

The Hill Family Estate Origin wine is a unique and very outstanding red blend that benefits not only from Doug’s care for his grapes, but also from the careful selection of grapes from some of the seven vineyards where Doug grows his fruit.

Today’s wine is lush, layered and deeply aromatic with a richness of taste, flavor and feel that are unique and very pleasing. This is a wine that conveys what commitment, beautiful vineyards, great fruit, tender care – and what the magical combination of these things taste like.