Community Tasting Notes 4

• drinknick31 Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 8, 2021 - I find the nose on this one incredible on the open fresh Jamie and refined. it’s a nice full body wine with great legs. Not a lot of fruit on the front pallet which I didn’t expect but lots of astringency on the back pallet with a smooth finish well-made happy with the wine definitely drinking at its peak but I don’t think it’s past its prime. Doubt it gets better but I don’t think it gets worse.

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• Rickol wrote: flawed

  June 7, 2020 - Drank our cellared bottle, which was in the last year of its drinking window. It was too late.

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• cvargas wrote:

  December 1, 2019 - FROM THE VINEYARD
  Winemaker Jeff Ames draws emphasis on this vineyard’s dense, rich fruit and impeccable balance. Harvested from our Knights Bridge estate’s 20-year-old vines on October 20, 2010, the berries were fermented on their skins for 19 days to fully extract fruit, color, and tannin before being pressed off sweet to barrel where they completed fermentation. The wine was aged for 21 months in 70 percent
  new French Taransaud, Darnajou, and Sylvain barrels before being bottled unfined and unfiltered.
  The hallmark notes of our Knights Valley vineyard — blackberry, dried lavender, and cocoa powder — immediately present themselves on the nose while baking spice, macerated blueberry, dried mint, and wet stone offer a layered underscore. On the palate, this wine is incredibly rich and weighty, a broad-shouldered
  wine with deep, plush flavors of dark fruit, cassis, and earthy chocolate. The structure is seamless: the
  sweet tannins are balanced and well integrated, lending grip and frame while bright red fruit and brown
  spices wash through the long finish.
  
  This is a serious wine that commands attention and rewards with its finesse, focus, and complexity. Decanting is recommended when drunk in its younger years, and 3-5 years of aging will allow this wine’s intricacies to fully emerge.
  
  328 cases produced

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• cepageyakima wrote: 92 points

  September 8, 2014 - Nicely made a little extracted for my taste it will be better when it loses some baby fat.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Knights Bridge
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Knights Valley

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• In Cellars 123 (63%)
• Consumed 71 (37%)

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