Ceja 2003 Vino de Casa - Red
- Overall rating 
Queue price $17.99
From the Winery
Vinum, cantus, amor - wine, song, love. Trademark words for Ceja Vineyards and the Ceja Family, third generation winegrowers in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys. We match vines to terroir, planting each variety where it grows best. Fruit is handled gently to create our limited collection of hand-crafted wines. Enjoy with family, friends and your favorite dishes. ¡Salud!
| Composition | 52% Pinot Noir 48% Syrah From Ceja's Viña del Sol Vineyard |
| Appellation | Napa Valley |
| Harvested | October 23, 2003 |
| Alcohol | 13.4% |
| pH | 3.57 |
| Aged for | 22 months |
| Aged in | French & American barrels |
| Production | 1400 cases |
Member Reviews
This is a wine I would easily get again!
Sonadora
Jul 15, 2007, 1:59 PM
Here we go again, another one from my WineQ! This time a 2003 Ceja Vino de Casa Red...a mix of 52% Pinot Noir and 48% Syrah. A very interesting blend, but I'm digging red blends lately and this one worked for me.
On the nose I found raspberries, cherries, plums, spices, and oak. The wine had a beautiful aroma, and again found me with red wine dripping from my nose as I put myself a little too far into the glass. In the mouth there were tart cherries, sour raspberries and plums.
Overall I would describe the wine as having very good structure and being really well balanced. This is a wine I would easily get again. I served it with steak with a red wine-strawberry jam sauce over 2 cheese risotto with steamed broccoli. It stood up okay to the steak, but I think it would have shone with a simple pasta dish with tomato sauce!
Read my full review in my blog post, QQQQQQQQQQ.
On the nose I found raspberries, cherries, plums, spices, and oak. The wine had a beautiful aroma, and again found me with red wine dripping from my nose as I put myself a little too far into the glass. In the mouth there were tart cherries, sour raspberries and plums.
Overall I would describe the wine as having very good structure and being really well balanced. This is a wine I would easily get again. I served it with steak with a red wine-strawberry jam sauce over 2 cheese risotto with steamed broccoli. It stood up okay to the steak, but I think it would have shone with a simple pasta dish with tomato sauce!
Read my full review in my blog post, QQQQQQQQQQ.
Delicious, balanced, plum-skin tea flavor
jzader
Jan 6, 2007, 6:07 PM
Uncommonly balanced. The phrase that came to mind is "plum-skin tea" -- clean, crisp, dry. (I'm not generally a tea drinker, by the way.) I dislike some red wines for what seems like a bitter gasoline-like quality, but this one goes down very smoothly, probably because of its large Pinot component. Of the four or five wines I've tried pairing with homemade pizza (using Trader Joe's tomato basil marinara or bruschetta sauce as my base), this one complements my pizzas the best. I'm guessing it's easy to pair with just about anything. For its agreeableness alone, I'd put this red table wine in the top 10% of wines I've consumed. Surprisingly, it's one of Ceja's lower-end wines. Contemplating buying a case in the near future.
