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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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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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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8/4/2021 - cblinstrub wrote: 98 Points
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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10/13/2018 - tomoem Likes this wine: 95 Points
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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4/26/2016 - Coachron13 Likes this wine: 91 Points
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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1/13/2015 - sasvino Likes this wine: 96 Points
Big fruit forward cab, good balance and complexity...plenty of life to age but peak....mid 90s
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