2005 Sloan Proprietary Red Spanish not by much but just

not by much but just enough to consider a more robust food pairing and more cellar age

brightness and viscosity

The menthol is there

This is such a gorgeous wine

all kept focused by a firm

2005 Sloan Proprietary Red Spanish not by much but just"This vineyard, high above the Rutherford AVA, on the gorgeous hillside not far from the famed restaurant and hotel Auberge du Soleil, has produced a winner in my retrospective of 2005s. This is clearly a great terroir, and that comes through in this savory, broad, expansive, pure 2005 Proprietary Red from Sloan. Offering black raspberry and blackcurrant fruit, silky tannins, notes of forest floor and spice box, and loamy soil undertones, the wine is