Community Tasting Notes 11

• jlhkiss Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 8, 2017 - Opened and decanted an hour before dinner of seared pork loin. Needed about 1.5 hours to fully open up. Brambly blackcurrant, blackberries, red cherries, tobacco, and herbs on the nose. The palate is full, square, and concentrated, with a hard acidic frame, bringing blackberries, plums, dark cherries, dark chocolate, espresso, dried leather, mushrooms, and cherry cobbler into the finish, which is lengthy but still sharp and slightly hot. This was a lot more lively than expected so probably has a few more years yet. Best with air. Drink before 2020. Technical score: 92. Enjoyment score: 93.

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• jlhkiss Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 24, 2015 - Decanted for 1.5 hours prior to dinner of seared filet, grilled asparagus, and garlic/onion hash brown potatoes. Inky black color with a violet hue. Nose brings intense pipe tobacco, lush cherries, wild herbs, and caramel sweet baking spices. The palate is full, sweet, voluptuous, and extremely juicy, bringing black cherries, chocolate mocha, brambly blackberries, sweet cassis liquor, more tobacco, and dried leather. The finish concludes for 30-45 seconds with a nice quenching pucker of candied raspberries and elegant, soft tannins. This wine feels like it may be entering a peak window over the next 2-3 years, though I suspect it might age well further. Its strength is in the subtleties, definitely made in an old-world, finesse-type style. We really enjoyed it. Drink now through 2020.

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• Rezy13 Likes this wine:

  October 11, 2014 - New World Blind Tasting Group $25+ (Bin 75): Dark core with garnet rim; currant, bay leaf, slight stewed cherry, spice, almost mushroom; soft texture, menthol, good structure; tasty; liked the complexity; the ripeness of the fruit says to drink sooner.

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• spencermerrell@gmail.com Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 11, 2014 - Opened for "New World Wine Tasting" - blind wine event with min $25/bottle. Decanted at 6:15pm and tasted 8:30-9:30. Group reaction was that we had picked a bottle too nice for the min :-).
  
  I actually didn't enjoy it as much as I had previously- probably due to paring. Wine could easily benefit from aging for 2-5 yrs.

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• Our Cellar Jen and Gregg wrote:

  December 26, 2013 - Had this with Christmas dinner 2013, enjoyed by all.. Better than Domina Cab!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type Red
• Producer Palmeri
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Stagecoach Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Code 813056010073

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• In Cellars 35 (42%)
• Consumed 49 (58%)

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