Rosenblum's '99 from its Rockpile Road Vineyard was my favorite, a spicy and harmonious wine.
Our hands-down favorite was the 2008 Weninger Hochäcker from Mittelburgenland, a graceful, harmonious wine with bright, complex flavors of fruits, flowers and spices.
My favorites included the Beychevelle, a complete, complex and harmonious wine that was both contemplative and surprisingly rich, and the Pichon Lalande, still youthful and impossibly delicate for such a full-bodied wine.
Instead of the jammy, unctuous wines from another highly lauded but hot vintage like 2007, these were focused, harmonious wines of freshness and structure.
The worldwide consumer swoon in the last 20 years for plush, dark, bountiful flavors had marginalized these smooth, pale, harmonious wines, which are aged for years in barrels and convey their complexities more through finesse and shimmering textures than bold fruit flavors.
Our best value, a $13 bottle of California cabernet from Baron Herzog, while not complex, was nonetheless a harmonious, pleasing wine.
Artemis doesn't show a whole lot of depth but it is a beautifully-made wine, harmonious and a pleasure to drink.
The best of these wines were harmonious and deep with pure, elegant flavors.
I don't know the winemaker, Paul Moser, but his wines are so harmonious they suggest that an artist presides in the cellar.
"The Quiet Storm" reunites fans with the reason they fell in love with the harmonious group while introducing newcomers to wine-and-dine R&B - the kind that elicits two-way emotions and pleasure as opposed to what the group refers to as "one-play".
It was also our best value at $37. Similarly, the 2009 Les Voisins from Copain, our No. 4 wine, was lively, bright and harmonious, yet not as intense and nuanced as, say, its wines from the Kiser Vineyard.
