Community Tasting Notes 13

• MN Wine Junkie Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 16, 2023 - In-laws and Laura visit (Jason's House): PnP - This would have been better with a short decant (an hour would have been nice). Plenty of dark fruit and cocoa with shades of red fruit too! Also some earthy notes, spice and hints of tar and anise. Better than last year and a pretty good value! 93+ and a delicious hedonistic wine!

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• I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 24, 2022 - A very nice wine, unfortunately, it came right after a 2017 Carter "Carter"....this wine was run through an aerator and decanted for 30 mins then consumed over the next 3 hours. A little more leaner than the Carter Carter, and should have been consumed first. Dark fruit on nose and palate with some red fruit too. Hints of chocolate and slight toasted oak notes on the finish. A very pleasant wine, but bested by its older brother! 93 points tonight.
  
  As a side note, I am impressed with how well these wines are drinking, and no signs of any smoke taint! Kudos to Carter!

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• Yack Man Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 6, 2022 - A good bottle of wine for a vintage that is sometimes awkward depending on the bottling and producer. This was a good wine but was a little tart showing dark cherry fruit, dark, some plum (tart plum skin), and dark berry fruit. good extraction but I would wait on this wine, it could show better with longer cellaring. Consumed over a three day period, slow ox 92+/ 93 Points.

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• davidandrose Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 4, 2022 - Surprised its been nearly a year since someone popped one of these, I’ll take one for the team tonight.
  
  Right out of the bottle this was tight with a slight tart note, but solid. Decanted half the bottle and after five hours the nose remains a veritable black hole of dark fruit, with a palate that just as dark, if not as chewy or lush as I’d expect.
  
  Gobs of tannins that are clearly resolving rather than punching you. Crushed stone, black or huckleberry, pencil lead; given more air theres a silkiness to the finish.
  
  Would like to see this add some weight and complexity or layering, but no issue w a 92-3 today and the ability to add 1-2pts.

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• rocknroller wrote:

  June 24, 2021 - Purple color. Small taste. Offda as they say. But I like "I'd Rather's" note on this, as this will be a crowd pleaser for many as he says. Right now I find it green, young, huge, highly extracted, blackberry liqueur and syrupy black berries. No score.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Carter Cellars
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Fortuna Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Oakville

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• In Cellars 136 (62%)
• Consumed 82 (38%)

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