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2012 Terra A Lago Cabernet Sauvignon
Sandra Silfven, The Detroit News, MI Tuesday Wine Pick

This Cab, also one of the Winery Exclusives, is produced off this single vineyard in the foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains. Winemaker Dave Ready Jr. calls it the most intense Cabernet in the portfolio. It's a pretty wine with silky tannins, concentrated flavors of cassis, blackberry and cherry with a hint of herbs. The smooth tannins make this wine accessible to drink early in its life but you can bet it's most age-worthy too. Food pairing? Ready says only a Porterhouse steak will do.

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2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley
Sandra Silfven, The Detroit News, MI Tuesday Wine Pick

Really? Twenty-six dollars for this Alexander Valley Cab? Clear out space in your cellar. It's still young as can be, tightly wound, but the soft dusty tannins make it drinkable now. It's so deliciously dense, you can chew it. It's 100 percent Cabernet, packed with brooding deep blackberry fruit with black cherry, dark chocolate notes and a kiss of thyme and bay leaf. It's braced with sturdy acidity. Alcohol is 14.6 percent. It's aged 16 months in 72 percent French oak barrels, 28 percent American oak, 35 percent new. Winemaker Dave Ready Jr. calls it one of his tried and true favorites.

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2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley
Charles Olken, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine One Star - Best Buy in the Market
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2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley
Tom Marquardt and Patrick Darr, Capital Gazette, MD Wine Picks of the Week

This wine is a crowd pleaser. Oodles of ripe berry/cherry fruit in the nose and mouth with a nice herbal note that adds complexity. A mouthful of fruit with nice integrated oak notes.

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2010 Dealer's Choice Cabernet Sauvignon
Steve Heimoff, Wine Enthusiast Magazine Good

Lots of Cabernet pleasure in this softly fruity Cabernet. It shows Alexander Valley’s easy approachability, with gentle, ripe flavors of blackberries, cherries, currants, herbs and sweet oak.

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2009 Cabernet Sauvignon California
Rich Mauro, The Gazette, CO Holiday Wine Pick
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2008 Dealer's Choice Cabernet Sauvignon
Dale Robertson, Houston Chronicle, TX Wine Pick

Lots of jammy fruit and spice. It's a 100 percent Alexander Valley cabernet from Terra A Lago Vineyard grapes, and it's a very Goode bet from a value-conscious winery. Blackberry and dark cherry flavors dominate, and the tannins are velvety, making the wine work as a stand-alone sipper.

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2007 Cabernet Sauvignon California
Rich Mauro, The Gazette, CO Highly Recommended

These are wines that don't sacrifice quality for affordability.

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2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley
Peg Melnik, Press Democrat, CA Highly Recommended - Wine List

A cab with aromas and flavors of blackberry, cherry, herbs and spice. Approachable with some nice layered flavors. Balanced.

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2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley
Karen Page & Andrew Dornenburg, The Washington Post, DC When Food Calls for Big Red

The 2005 Murphy-Goode Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a blend dominated by cabernet sauvignon (91 percent) with added petit verdot (for depth), merlot (for sweetness) and malbec (for a hint of blueberry flavor). Its deep blackberry and plum fruitiness has dried-herb notes and is well balanced by acidity and soft tannins.

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2004 Terra A Lago Cabernet Sauvignon
Chuck Hill, Wines Northwest Wine of the Week

Terra A Lago, Block 4 vineyard is in California's southern Alexander Valley and is the source for much of Murphy Goode's finest Cabernet fruit. This reserve-level Cabernet Sauvignon bursts with boysenberry aroma wrapped in toasty oak and layers of complex earthy, plumy, smoky goodness. The palate is rich with black cherry and blueberry flavors tightly held by firm tannins and notes of vanilla and bacon on the finish. Calling all meats from the grill!

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2004 Terra A Lago Cabernet Sauvignon
Gerald D. Boyd, Press Democrat, CA Wine Pick

100% cabernet sauvignon from a single-vineyard, aged in French oak with a little American oak. Vibrant purple-ruby color. Mature and complex aromatics. Lacks the up-front fruitiness of its youth. Balanced with blackberry and spice notes and well-integrated oak. Nicely matured for a 12-year-old cabernet.

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2004 Terra A Lago Cabernet Sauvignon
Dale Robertson, Houston Chronicle, TX Highly Recommended

The Terra A Lago Vineyard, off the Alexander Valley's southern bench is the winery's prime cab real estate. a dark-colored bold and highly concentrated wine with lots of dark fruit, it should age very well.

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2002 Sarah Block Cabernet Sauvignon
Mary Ewing-Mulligan, Wine Review Online

Murphy-Goode, Alexander Valley (Sonoma county, California) Cabernet Sauvignon Murphy Ranch, Sarah Block 2002: If you wanted to find a textbook Cabernet Sauvignon, this would be a prime candidate. It has aromas and flavors of black currants and blackberries, very concentrated, very ripe and yet fresh. The wine's firm oak tannin on the rear palate is ably balanced by the wine's concentrated fruit character on the fore palate. Concentrated fruit on the finish indicates a potential for aging. A splendid Cabernet. 90 POINTS> Mary Ewing-Mulligan

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2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley
Michael Franz, Wine Review Online

Murphy-Goode, Alexander Valley (California) Cabernet Sauvignon 2002: I am keenly searching for California wines that offer distinctive character and competitive value in the world marketplace, and this is one of them. It offers fresh, flavorful, fleshy berry fruit that really shows the signature of Alexander valley, with very soft tannins and a juicy core of the fruit that could enable this to work well in all sorts of applications. As an aside, I don't care to drink red wine as a cocktail, but it is quite evidently the case that many people do, and this is a Cabernet that can be enjoyed in this mode while also being up to the challenge of pairing with serious food. 89 POINTS. Michael Franz

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2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley
Editor, Decanter HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Murphy-Goode, Alexander Valley, Sonoma County. Plump, polished, ripe plum, mulberry, blackcurrant. Plush, gorgeous, silky dark fruit. Up to 5 years.

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2002 Terra A Lago Cabernet Sauvignon
Steve Heimoff, Wine Enthusiast Magazine

92 Murphy-Goode 2002 Terra A Lago #4 Cabernet Sauvignon (Alexander Valley) This block selection combines the richness of the winery's Adams Knoll Cab with the tannic inaccessibility of the Sarah Block. The result is a wine that needs age. It displays its appellation's herbal, tobaccoey personality, with a solid core of cherry and blackberry fruit. Best to cellar until 2008, and should hold beyond that.

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2014 Liar's Dice Zinfandel
Chuck Hill, Wines Northwest Wines of the Week

Wines of the Week Murphy-Goode co-founder Tim Murphy was the architect of their Zinfandel program, conceived, in part, through “consultation” with Sonoma County Zinfandel growers over breakfast games of Liar’s Dice. Roll the bones with this bright and flavorful Zin, featuring aromas of blackberry and floral perfume leading to spicy berry and cedar on the palate.

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2013 Liar's Dice Zinfandel
Chuck Hill, Wines Northwest Wines of the Week

Murphy-Goode co-founder Tim Murphy was the architect of their Zinfandel program conceived, in part, through “consultation” with Sonoma County Zinfandel growers over breakfast games of Liar’s Dice. M-G 2013 Zin is a juicy, celebratory wine with dark cherry and blackberry fruit, a jammy palate and notes of oak from a combination of American and French oak aging.

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2013 Liar's Dice Zinfandel
Sandra Silfven, The Detroit News, MI Your Fourth of July red: Murphy-Goode Liar's Dice Zinfandel

This near-perfect growing season gives the wine even more intensity and juicy fruit. Aromas roar with dark berries, spice, brown cooking spices and an infusion of cedar. Flavors are juicy, acidity is firm; alcohol and toasty oak are woven into the fruit. Flavors and mouthfeel are broadened with the addition of 4 percent Petite Sirah. Alcohol is 15.4 percent. The producer calls it a second-glass Zin: If you have one glass you’re certain to have another. It’s perfect for pairing with grilled burgers and steaks.

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2013 Liar's Dice Zinfandel
Tom Marquardt and Patrick Darr, Capital Gazette, MD Zinfandel a perfect fit for fall

Always a pleasure to drink, the Liar’s Dice is blended with a bit of petite sirah to give it more color and depth. It’s very juicy with sweet, jammy raspberry and blackberry flavors.

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2012 Reserve Zinfandel
Sandra Silfven, The Detroit News, MI Thursday Wine Pick

The Reserve takes things up another notch. There’s more oak roaring through the aromas; flavors are intense, and dense, and really approachable — yet it’s still holding back some of its full potential. It’s a wine with subtle power — alcohol is 15.6 percent yet it does not flaunt that. It’s a sipping wine — something to enjoy with creamy Roquefort on a cracker or a fat juicy steak on the grill. Fruit is from the Ellis Ranch owned by fifth generation Alexander Valley grower Nancy Dalziel. Winemaker Dave Ready Jr. puts it nicely: “The finish is long and will leave your mouth happy.”

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2012 Snake Eyes Zinfandel
Sandra Silfven, The Detroit News, MI Thursday Wine Pick

This is the kind of wine European visitors stow in a suitcase to take home to friends. The vintage, of course, 2012, is one of the best in recent times and the wine speaks to that. Tannins are smooth as silk; this baby has no rough edges. Flavors are dark berries, plum, spice, vanilla with a sweet toasty note. It’s so smooth and approachable. Murphy-Goode always gives the “Snake Eyes” designation to the best Zinfandel vineyard of the vintage, in this case, the Trusendi Vineyard in Alexander Valley, which is one of the original sources of Liar’s Dice fruit. The owner, Mike Mazzoni, was one of the regulars for the Murphy-Goode founders’ dice games in Geyserville.

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2012 Snake Eyes Zinfandel
Tom Marquardt and Patrick Darr, Capital Gazette, MD Wine Pick

Murphy-Goode Snake Eyes Zinfandel 2012. You won't find a more juicy zinfandel to accompany those smoked ribs or grilled hamburgers. Perfect for the grilling season because of the jammy flavors, this zinfandel is packed with lively raspberry, blackberry fruit.

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2012 Liar's Dice Zinfandel
Sandra Silfven, The Detroit News, MI Thursday Wine Pick

This one has been a fan favorite for decades — and it just gets better. It’s a beauty from the spectacular 2012 vintage produced off Alexander and Dry Creek Valley vineyards. Flavors are like liquid raspberry, cherry, plum and spice — and throw in some molten dark chocolate and espresso beans. Tannins are like silk. Acidity gives it edge. It’s delicious.