Community Tasting Notes 4

• cblinstrub wrote: 98 points

  August 4, 2021 - Just wow. I remember tasting this in the tasting room in 2010 thinking it was special. I was worried sitting on a NV wine for 14 years, and was expecting autumnal fading primary fruit. Umm, it’s always humbling to be 100% wrong.
  
  I PnP and it was a fruit bomb. Paired with a tri tip. Finally settled down about an hour in, where some acidity broke through. Tannins are fine and well integrated. A dominant plum, but blackberry and mint, with a touch of chocolate right behind it.
  
  Need to see if I can discover another bottle.

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• tomoem Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 13, 2018 - Had from a magnum. Huge nose of ripened berries and crushed grapes. As close to an aroma of Welches Grape juice that I found of late in a wine.
  
  In mouth the wine is stunning. One of the great ones with rich and velvety fruits which hold with a backbone of balanced tannin and acidity. Long and lingering finish of mulberry, some asphalt, and tobacco leaf. This is a great wine.

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• Coachron13 Likes this wine: 91 points

  April 26, 2016 - Drinking more like a left bank bordeaux than a Napa cab at this time. Earthiness is becoming dominant. Still a solid cab but the fruit is fading on it.

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• sasvino Likes this wine: 96 points

  January 13, 2015 - Big fruit forward cab, good balance and complexity...plenty of life to age but peak....mid 90s

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type Red
• Producer James Cole
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Umbral Reserve
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• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• In Cellars 115 (78%)
• Consumed 32 (22%)

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