Community Tasting Notes 6

• Wine Gombie Likes this wine: 85 points

  June 29, 2021 - Color: Ruby purple with fading edges…. getting ready to expire.
  
  Nose: Not a lot there. What is left is a bit of mocha, chocolates, earth, leather with subtle fruits of blueberry, blackberry, dark cassis. We also get hints of unripe bell pepper, balsamic vinegar, and a greenhouse as it begins to propagate. There are definitely some muddy puddles lingering….Yes, lingering.
  
  Fruit: What fruit?? Extremely soft, minimal tannins, subtle cherry, blackberry, cocoa. Not a lot going on here. Lost its prime a good 8 years ago! Flat! Comes, goes & that’s it, folks.
  Good for the alcohol at 14.5%, don’t expect anything else from this particular year at this point.

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• wconnolly Likes this wine: 88 points

  June 29, 2020 - Deep, rich and bold. Creosote, ripe berry and a little lavender on the nose. Sour cherry cassis, tea and a bit of a medicinal note on the finish. Full bodied and robust.

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• Jack11211 Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 3, 2016 - opened tonight, and its still evolving - was fruit forward at first but that dissipated over the first 20-30 minutes and its drinking lovely right now... would love for some of the more subtle leather/earthy flavors to come through a bit more but maybe a little later tonight, we shall see!

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• winecadence Likes this wine: 89 points

  February 15, 2016 - Very nice at opening.

• libero wrote: 92 points

  August 19, 2015 - Dark red, aromas of black berries and earth. Well balance
  D and ready to drink. We had it with Biriami a la Nauab, an spicy, to say the least, Indian food, in which rice is cooked with beef, lamb, shirimp, raisins, Caju, coriander, cloves, almonds, chicken peas, onions, potatoes and a dozen more. Delicious and this wine paired extremely well with this quite hot wine.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Benziger Family Winery
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Oonapais
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma Valley

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• In Cellars 108 (39%)
• Consumed 167 (61%)

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