Silver Lake Grand Reserve Brut Vintage: 1992 Purchased: Apr 5th 2008 Price: $12.00 Purchase Location: Silver Lake Winery - (http://www.silverlakewinery.com/) Categories: Oregon - Sparkling

Tasting Notes:

This isn't a bad sparkler, but I get the impression that it wasn't intended to bottle age for this long. Perhaps it got lost in a cellar somewhere? The color and nose are outstanding, but the primary fruit character seems to have faded. There are hints of apple and pear, but they are buried underneath the lime like intense acid. This isn't something I'd buy again.


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Silver Lake Reserve Chardonnay Vintage: 2005 Purchased: Feb 17th 2007 Price: $12.99 Purchase Location: Silver Lake Winery - (http://www.silverlakewinery.com/) Categories: Chardonnay - Washington - White

Tasting Notes:

I opened this to go along with an interesting meal. Whipped potatoes, gravy, green beans, and pork belly confit. I can't say for sure that the pairing worked, I think something a little crisper and floral (perhaps a viognier or a riesling) would have went better, but the wine itself was pretty good.

It was the standard golden color in the glass, nothing out of the ordinary. The smell was more tropical than I usually expect from a chardonnay. Much more pineapple and guava then the usual apple smell. On the first taste you could feel that it was a very full bodied wine. The pineapple and guava scents were mirrored in the flavors, with just a hint of apple. There was a surprising amount of crisp acid. On the finish the acid smoothed out and there was a buttery taste to go along with the vanilla spice of oak. Normally I don't like the oaky finish of chardonnay, but here it worked due to the extra acid up front.


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Silver Lake Roza Rose Vintage: 2005 Purchased: Feb 17th 2007 Price: $9.99 Purchase Location: Silver Lake Winery - (http://www.silverlakewinery.com/) Categories: Rose - Washington

Tasting Notes:

Opened this up for a midweek dinner of steak salad. We had bought this on our trip to the Silver Lake Winery. I remember that Kathrine was a big fan of it.

In the glass it's very bright pink. Definitely very attractive in the glass. The nose was full of ripe fruit, mostly strawberry and watermelon. On the palate, the taste followed the nose exactly. The same watermelon and strawberry tastes were there. It was also sweeter than I had imagined it would be, almost cloyingly so. The finish was short, and had a bitterness to it that I did not care for.

This was a step up from white zin, but there are much better roses out there.


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