Wine for Haiti Lot 2 – Rodney Strong Rockaway 6.0L SOLD

Rodney Strong Vineyards is the generous benefactor for our second huge format special offering, a 6.0L bottle of 2005 Rodney Strong Cabernet Sauvignon Rockaway. Retail value is $600.00. This is a single bottle auction lot. Reviews: Vibrant and concentrated, with aromas of loamy earth, dried currant, graphite, mineral and fresh earth, ending with a return [...]

Palate Press’ First Grand Tasting

For Palate Press: The online wine magazine’s first grand tasting, we collected sixty different wines and a group of wine bloggers and wine professionals …

2005 Rodney Strong Cabernet Sauvignon Rockaway

Enormous but balanced. One reviewer described “vanilla and mocha flavor, and balanced, not overpowering, oak.” Another noted the size of the wine, too, writing “big up front fruit but enough earth/spice to make it interesting.”  The only negative review came from a reviewer who found it “one sided.” WHO Rodney Strong WHAT Cabernet Sauvignon WHERE [...]

2006 Rodney Strong Cabernet Sauvignon Brothers Ridge

An enormous bottle in every way, from the size of the bottle to the powerful wine inside. Oak usage, though, is heavy-handed, at least at a young age, overwhelming everything else in the glass. it will calm down, but only after several years in the cellar. WHO Rodney Strong WHAT Cabernet Sauvignon WHERE California, Sonoma [...]

2006 Rodney Strong Symmetry

This is a huge, exuberant bottle of wine.  Elderberries, blueberries, dark chocolate, hickory smoke, and black cherries are restrained, but just barely, by tobacco from the Cabernet Franc. Tannins are sweet and the finish is long.  This is a real mouth-coater.  It would match well with a big steak, or have it as a meal [...]