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• lucagiupponi Likes this wine:

  March 19, 2023 - Impressive. Unlike other notes, I felt like this wine greatly improved with air and is barely now entering its drinking window. YMMV.

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• bgdau Likes this wine:

  July 25, 2022 - Ok. Decanted for 3 hours and never showed strong improvement from the pnp taste. Fruit was good but missing tannins.

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• erictayl wrote: 94 points

  January 8, 2021 - Cellared at 59 degrees since release. This is a very good cab barely at the beginning of its drinking window. Upon pnp, alcohol and oak on the nose. Looked and smelled like a new wine. I slow ox'd for 5 hours then properly decanted for an additional hour, then drank over 2 more hours. Much better than I expected frankly. Powerful, rich and ultimately balanced. On par with a $150 Napa cab. From memory so details a bit lacking. Glad I waited on these. wish I had more.

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• Neecies wrote:

  January 26, 2019 - VERY different from the impressive bottle last August. Decanted one hour. First of all: no nose. None. Nada. Some taste, but without aroma it was like drinking while having a cold. Came back to it an hour later: some nose, but mildly oxidative in flavor. I don't even know how to describe what was wrong with this bottle, except that it shouldn't have been like that. Dumped it on the rhodos.

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• Neecies Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 4, 2018 - Very impressive wine from a difficult vintage made by Ben Smith who leans toward a more restrained, Bordeauxish sensibility in his cabs and which shows here. Needed an hour decant to open up, the wine showed boysenberry fruit with good spice and pencil shavings. Big bodied and mouthfilling with good length on the finish, it's just arriving in middle aged and seems to have the stuffing for more years in the cellar, though I question '2036' as someone else apparently opined.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Force Majeure
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Collaboration Series Reserve
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region Washington
• SubRegion Columbia Valley
• Appellation Red Mountain

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• In Cellars 87 (46%)
• Consumed 104 (54%)

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