Community Tasting Notes 37

• Brian Glas Likes this wine: 92 points

  December 11, 2022 - Tasted after 90 minutes of air. Dark garnet color with some slight bricking. Stewed fruits on the nose. Dark berry fruits with some firm tannins that are starting to mellow. Shows no signs of fading after 20 years. Matt Loso made this to go the distance and it shows. Many wines would be fading or completely dead at year 20. Not this. This is powering up heartbreak hill at mile 20 on the Boston Marathon with no signs of weakness or tiring. Long drying finish. Very nice effort.

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• DMET Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 27, 2021 - This was a shock. Suppose to be dead in 2012. Today, far from dead. It was thick, chewy and fruit forward. Took 2 hours to open up.
  
  It’s my last bottle of 2 and this was truly a treat.

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• FLI Likes this wine: 87 points

  January 17, 2014 - That Malbec comes through like a defect - bitter. But, despite that, there's interesting things - nice fruit and aromas - going on in this wine.

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• Dkato24 wrote: 85 points

  November 28, 2013 - Cork looked troubled but tasted great. No aroma so may be near end of drinking window.

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• mflesh Likes this wine: 93 points

  May 22, 2013 - Dang. Drinking beautifully right now. This wine was purchased as a part of the Last Bottle Wines "March Madness" thing where each bottle refreshes in 2 milliseconds.....assuming they even have the wine anyway..... This one was cellared for a couple of months thereafter. Was opened and decated for 1 hour before serving. Cork was popped completely intact with less than 2 mm of cork bleed all the way around. Poured into glass - very dark. Nose was all blueberry, blackberry, not much age on the nose. Palate is blackberry, blueberry, crushed rock, lavender very deep into the front. Leather chair. There is a bit of acidity still, and this wine carried into the mid palate with some lilac and lavender. Limestone became very apparent towards the end. As the wine opened, it showed a little more age, more leather. For the most part this is a deep wine, but the 16% Franc component really added the floral notes in a very nice part of the wine, making it full bodied, robust, yet still a little youthful even when you start to taste its age. Finish was mildly tannic annd showing great integration. There was even a little bit of heat on the finish. There is NO WAY this wine is past drinking window. 2008-2017 is probably way more acceptable. If I had a few more bottles of these, I'd probably drink one per year to see what develops.

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• Vintage 2002
• Type Red
• Producer Matthews
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Red Wine
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Washington
• SubRegion Columbia Valley
• Appellation Columbia Valley

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• In Cellars 212 (38%)
• Consumed 348 (62%)

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