A great debut vintage, violet berries, dark fruit, some licorice, a bit dusty, a hint of cassis. Some heat, but still on a reasonable level. At first I was a bit worried, that it would fall apart with too much air, as it had a whiff of overly mature notes, but with some air this blew off and it was just delicious. So I'd say that there is still quite a bit of life left here.

Purple and red fruit, fruity jelly, a nose that reminds me of a dusty very dry road. As in so many Scarecrow this exhibits that "weighless intensity" that I love so much.

Very intense nose, nice sweetness, chocolate, cassis, dark, black fruit. Yet again despite all that flavor intensity and ripeness it was elegant and near weighless. Amazing! This was one of my favourites of the vertical.

This for me was a bit of a culture shock with 04 and 05 exhibiting that beautiful weithless intensits, '06 was a much bolder and broader wine. Very structured with dark berries and cassis. I liked it and maybe if tasted next to some more opulent Napa Cabs, this would have appeared more elegant.

Red berries, chocolate, some cassis, dense and opulent in the nose with a great elegant body, this was incredibly long. Unfortunately, the nose had a slightly overripe touch. That overripe touch is also a factor that makes me a bit weary of the aging potential, as in similar wines, I have experienced this to intensify with age.

This was the only wine that was quite holding back on the aromatics. needed some time to develop had a good structure but also developed more ripe aromas and the alcohol wasn't as perfectly integrated as in other vintages.

A lovely, cool vintage resulting in a great expression of that weighltess intensity game that Scarecrow is mastering. Cranberry jelly, milk chocolate, just delicious to drink now!

It's funny, but with wines as young as 2019, this for me was the only one that was really too young to drink.

A high potential wine with so much power but the tannin structure was so intense that it needs another 5 years before it really delivers that Scarecrow magic. By then it can be amazing

Coo, red and purple berries, some floral notes with even a burgundian characteristic. This is great now!

Dark chocolate, black berries, a whiff of espresso in the background, super dense with a great length and here's that weighlessness again. Great wine with some further upward potential.

Black, dark instense fruit, incredibly structured and powerful. Could have benefitted from decanting. Will further improve with time in the bottle.

Cassis, dark fruit, black chocolate with whole hazlenuts. Not as balanced as other vintages, with quite some broad shoulders, I really liked it nevertheless.

Very fruit driven, vanilla, chocolate, relatively sweet, much more along the lines of a typical Napa blend than a Scarecrow. Yet still very tasty.

What an absolute stunner of a wine and for me the wine of the night. Dark chocolate, cassis, licorice, incredibly complex and concentrated. WOW

As the 2012 this was dense, concentrated and intense. Way too young, but also has notes of slightly overripe figs, reminding me a bit of 2007 Scarecrow. I'm not sure where this concoction is headed...

Red gruit, some dark fruit, despite that hot year it manages to maintain a certain degree of freshness. Some red fruit jelly. To my surprise I had a slight preference for 2014 over 2015.

It shows so much potential, with dense, sweet, dark fruit and beautiful toasted notes. This could also have benefited from decanting, but with some time in the glass it started to show its potential.

Oysters, chalk, surprisingly this had the most sweetness from all the vintages, fairly ripe and ready to drink. This vintage kind of fell out of line with the rest of the vertical.

Dense, opulent, toasted notes, some hazelnut. At the end of a long tasting and such a young wine, assessing the potential development is hard, but I'm quite positive that this will be a classic Scarecrow.

Assessing the potential development of such a young wine is hard, especially after such an intense tasting. But I'm extremely positive on the 2019 Vintage in Napa in general but on this wine in particular. This will have the weightless intensity, with an extra punch of intensity.