Community Tasting Notes 23

• Sundbyberg wrote: 93 points

  March 5, 2024 - Decanted 45 minutes before dinner and than drank over 3 hours or so. Very good from start but needed 1-2 hours to really open up. Fuller in the beginning and lighter and more hamoneus at the end. Drink now with a 2 hr decant.

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• WoodieBayArea wrote: 91 points

  October 23, 2022 - very nice with elegance and acidity... red fruit side... love old cali cabs, this was a very good one but not great

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• oldwines Likes this wine: 91 points

  November 25, 2018 - A bottle brought be another friend to our house from a joint purchase a few years ago, this was about half of a bottle left from a dinner the previous evening. It was a nearly opaque dark garnet with dark black cherry, graphite, licorice, leather and chocolate and some noticeable brett which did take a bit off for me in this case. We have had better bottles of this notwithstanding it’s extended “breathe time”.

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• wineman73 Likes this wine:

  October 31, 2017 - The 1989 Forman was a medium garnet red that had very little bricking. The nose after decanting for 2 hrs provided a wonderful smell of leather, cherry and chocolate. The mouth feel was soft with flavors of lavender, cherry, tobacco, some vanilla and other red fruits. The wine should be had over the next 2-3 years. A wonderful wine to smell and drink. score 93

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• oldwines Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 7, 2017 - Decanted at 5:30pm and tasted over the next 5 hours. Medium Garnet colored. Initially the nose was very herbal almost to the point of "vegetal" with a lot of green pepper, but this did fade a bit over time. In addition there is chocolate, cassis, pencil shavings and powdered chocolate. Nice mouth feel, especially after the first hour or so. The flavors reflect the nose in a nice rich mix. Nice long aftertaste, over a minute. Plenty of lively acidity given the age suggests 5-10 years of fine drinking still ahead. This bottle was just a little less layered than the last and had the slightly more vegetal element in the nose that I thought took just a little away from the overall impression.

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

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• In Cellars 140 (65%)
• Consumed 77 (35%)

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