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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 points

  April 2, 2024 - Late posting this note.....enjoyed the bottle a few weeks back with Carol and Mary at a cute little Italian place here. I have to laugh a little at the CT drinking window on this one, which apparently ended back in 2013?
  
  This bottle needed only a 15-20 min double decant, for sediment mostly. Back into the bottle and enjoyed over 2 hours with dinner. Medium garnet in the glass. Intoxicating nose of red fruit, florals, incense.....palate is completely integrated with both secondary and tertiary notes but the fruit is still going pretty strong even if the wine is just a tad thin in the mouth. I'd say this could go another 5 years easy, so a new drinking window of 2029!

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• Purple Tooth wrote: 97 points

  February 12, 2024 - Ok, I am officially convinced. SOME California wines age incredibly well. No wonder 1997 was THE year. This chains Bordeaux to California with a ++ component, called rich, living fruit. Whiffs of tobacco bring you into the glass and then, the taste profile transports you away in melted cold steel, tobacco, coffee grounds, and gobs of happy fruit dancing through and through on a platform of sturdy acidity wrapped in cashmere. I could see this as a 1989 Bordeaux. Drink with no hurry, but dont hesitate and deprive yourself and die with this wine in your cellar.

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• soyhead wrote:

  April 21, 2023 - tasted blind, sexy and much fruit. round and voluptuous

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• boillatm wrote: 90 points

  February 19, 2023 - Bought a couple of bottles at an auction. Served PnP. The cork disintegrated upon opening although it wasn't soaked.
  Youthful appearance, almost no nose. On the palate bold and rather monolithic. I wished we'd have had this with a steak rather than with cold cuts.
  All in all a pleasant, if not very complex wine
  
  [Edit: this note concerns the Gold label bottling. I wasn't aware that there was a difference with the regular one.]

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• sachsen wrote: flawed

  January 28, 2022 - Last bottle. Sadly somewhat marred with brett.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1997
• Type Red
• Producer Merryvale
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Profile
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Codes 040426702416, 040426902410

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• In Cellars 1,037 (56%)
• Consumed 803 (44%)

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