Moraga, Bel Air (California) 2017

 In a contemporaneous review for a Trump wine, I note my thoughts on separating wine reviews from political views.  OK, this winery is owned by Rupert Murdoch, hardly my favorite media baron, but the winery makes very good wine. It also professes to be the only active winery within Los Angeles, sitting on a mountain across the interstate from the Getty Museum in the Bel Air section.  The wine is quite delicious, and it holds its taste overnight with little change, which augurs well for long aging.  It is a dense wine in texture – muddled is the word that comes to mind – with excellent mulberry and other red fruit flavors.  It also has deft oak treatment, with the flavors blending nicely into the wine, and it has pleasant, relatively mild dusty tannins.