The Sumoba compound
Tasted Sunday, March 17, 2024 by WineBurrowingWombat with 141 views
From the twisted mind of bsumoba is a blind tasting of 5 bottles, with one bottle from each of the following price ranges:
$10 - $25
$50 - $100
$101 - $200
$201 - $300
$301 - $500
Grab some popcorn, because this could be a shocker..
A light, but refreshing, starter before the games.
The order of this flight is exactly how everyone tasted during the blind.
The three of us ranked each glass from least to most favorite, then the rankings were tallied and averaged out to see which glass ranked where, followed by bottle reveals. Results are as follows:
#1 2019 BV GdL Private Reserve (son of a..)
#2 2019 Bella Oaks
#3 2021 Aperture Cabernet Sauvignon Soil Specific
#4 2019 Colgin Cariad (wowww)
#5 2019 Hill Family Estate "The Barrel Blend"
What's crazy is how on pop and pour, everything was quite similar. Amazing how it was initially a bit hard to tell which is which when we're just basing off the aromas, making us think that some of the lower priced wines really hanged with the higher priced ones. However, with that said, the wines' conditions and its surroundings started to slowly change as the evening went on, with each wine revealing its own little subtleties (thank goodness because all the wines started off seeming like those awfully familiar yet liminal spaces).
The obvious surprise here is the Colgin but we all agreed that it just needed much more time, since it didn't seem to track with our previous experiences with Colgin (probably an off day or something).
A great time and humbling experience as always. Shoutout to bsumoba for hosting and humiliting, I mean gracing us, with this awesome experience ;) Until next time, folks!
2022 Kinsman Eades Aisana 94 Points
USA, California, Napa Valley, Oakville
Nose: Crisp peaches, light hay, a field of grass, clean dry stones and white flowers.
Palate: Dry fruits with just a touch of ripeness, clean minerals with a light bitterness. So clean, refreshing and crisp.
This is showing much better today than what I tasted 5-6 months ago, which was quite flat and flabby. This has an excitement to it, like a breath of fresh air.
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