Community Tasting Notes 5

• BrendanNeary Likes this wine: 92 points

  September 28, 2020 - Outstanding wine! Showing signs of age, but drinking really well right now. Classic Mourvedre. Medium garnet. Nose - medium intensity with good development of the fruit - plum, blackberry, blueberry with vanilla and baking spices. Palate - acid is medium but still there, lots of stewed black fruit (plum, blackberry) licorice, pepper, orange zest and meaty notes. Long finish, with light tannin. With 14.5 abv great balance between fruit/acid/alc/spices. Wish I had bought a few more!

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• tward wrote: 83 points

  November 25, 2016 - The least impressive Cass wine I've had. Kind of clumsy and squishy, fruit a bit overripe, some new oak, some high notes in the nose. Never really came together, tried to give it a 2nd and 3rd night try. 2nd night was OK. 3rd night (a glass left in the bottle) had an awful nose, undrinkable. I think this works well as a PnP party with with spice-rubbed grilled meat. QPR questionable even in the upper teens. Better values in straight CdR / southern France.

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• linkswinelover6549 Likes this wine: 89 points

  April 18, 2016 - Beautiful wine. Delicious

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• Wine.woot_taster wrote:

  November 6, 2015 - '13 cass Mourvèdre tasting notes from 9/4/15
  
  I found this to be a quite interesting wine. Everything I know about Mourvèdre is it makes a great rose and it's typically used in blending for its color and tannins. So I opened this version from Paso and expected a big dark fruit tannic wine. I did not get that.
  
  Day 1, 30 minutes from PNP, with bbq chicken.
  It's a medium garnet in color, clear with no sediment. A moderate but young nose of dusty cherry and some minor alcohol note. On the tongue it's really interesting, it's dry, medium bodies ed bordering on light. Good acidity and minimal tannins. It's well balanced and could maybe use a bit more body. Flavors are black cherry, and raspberry. No ancillary Flavors, no noticeable oak. Decent finish.
  
  Day 2,
  After dinner,
  Definitely the same wine but it feels a little fuller and the fruit has come out a bit. The nose has a very perfume quality to it. And the alcohol had become more noticeable. The palate retained its nice acidity and took on a much more juicy quality that leaves your mouth wanting more. A very smooth soft red fruit mouth feel. I really enjoyed it more day 2 and recommend at around $20 a bottle.
  
  It needs a stiff decant or at least shouldered a couple hours before enjoying. If I were given this at a blind tasting I would swear it was a Sonoma coast Pinot noir. It totally threw me.

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• TottenCellars Likes this wine:

  September 4, 2015 - I found this to be a quite interesting wine. Everything I know about Mourvèdre is it makes a great rose and it's typically used in blending for its color and tannins. So I opened this version from Paso and expected a big dark fruit tannic wine. I did not get that.
  
  Day 1, 30 minutes from PNP, with bbq chicken.
  It's a medium garnet in color, clear with no sediment. A moderate but young nose of dusty cherry and some minor alcohol note. On the tongue it's really interesting, it's dry, medium bodied bordering on light. Good acidity and minimal tannins. It's well balanced and could maybe use a bit more body. Flavors are black cherry, and raspberry. No ancillary Flavors, no noticeable oak. Decent finish.
  
  Day 2,
  After dinner,
  Definitely the same wine but it feels a little fuller and the fruit has come out a bit. The nose has a very perfume quality to it. And the alcohol had become more noticeable. The palate retained its nice acidity and took on a much more juicy quality that leaves your mouth wanting more. A very smooth soft red fruit mouth feel. I really enjoyed it more day 2 and recommend at around $20 a bottle.
  
  It needs a stiff decant or at least shouldered a couple hours before enjoying. If I were given this at a blind tasting I would swear it was a Sonoma coast Pinot noir. It totally threw me.

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• Vintage 2013
• Type Red
• Producer Cass
• Varietal Mourvèdre
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Coast
• Appellation Paso Robles

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