Community Tasting Notes 38

• blanquito wrote: 91 points

  March 7, 2024 - Very good, a classic from the old school Cali cab playbook. Shows overly dry on the midpalate at first before food, but smells terrific and could fool you into thinking it is a Bordeaux bouquet. The palate is linear and very minty with cassis and plum, its tannins are in a good place. It has some of that overt roundness that old New World cabs can get which leaves them a little limp, but the Dunn acids and structure are sufficient here to eschew the worst of those sins. Very good, does yeoman work with a ribeye.

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• mowtod Likes this wine: 87 points

  May 25, 2023 - Surprised by the fruit still evident in bouquet and flavor —cherries and dark berries . No tannins . Short on any complexity

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• ejmwine Likes this wine: 89 points

  May 16, 2022 - Cork was very dry and crumbled during extraction. Wine was still nice but probably had faded some. A little brown tinge when pouring.

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• jlgnml wrote:

  October 16, 2021 - I did a short pour Coravin out of a magnum. Not sure, a bit musty and tired. When I do open I need a short decant a then drink or maybe a dud but drink soon

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• pbaek wrote:

  September 14, 2019 - Much better than the 1986 we had at Anarki in August. Classic Cab with notes of tobacco, pencil, eucalyptus and sous bois. The fruit is dark but airy, still traces of blackcurrant. Great, unique wine.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1989
• Type Red
• Producer Dunn Vineyards
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• Pending Delivery 7 (1%)
• In Cellars 415 (64%)
• Consumed 223 (35%)

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