Community Tasting Notes 7

• Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 94 points

  October 24, 2016 - Just singing with rack of lamb. This is really an ideal food wine at this point. High alcohol and residual young tannin gets muted by the food and it's just deleriously good. The To-Kalon tropical fruit is so fun.

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• Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 93 points

  October 9, 2016 - Popped and poured. Drinking great from the start, although it evolved significantly in the glass over two hours and went through a confused phase for about an hour in the middle, so perhaps an hour decant might be in order. Very feminine nose that smelled to me like Cab Franc. Lots of swirling extraction, young tannin, not much acid. Delicious fruit from To Kalon vineyard but I would prefer more purity of expression; this tasted somehow like a blend than a single-vineyard effort.

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• fine137 wrote: 93 points

  March 24, 2013 - Unmistakably to-kalon, ripe, round, velvet, delicious if a bit one dimensional.

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• tfharris wrote: 93 points

  January 18, 2013 - Stunning. Complex.

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• kbhiggins wrote: 91 points

  February 10, 2012 - Nose and flavor profile changed over the course of 2-3 hour decant. Initial nose showed powerful fruit which mirrored the rich, full body of the wine. Over the course of decanting the wine, nose moved away from fruit and more towards some dust and vegetal notes. This was a great wine. Tasted the 2010 in December which was absolutely fantastic. Tannins on the 2005 were still pretty potent, so will wait a couple of years before opening our next bottle.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Château Boswell
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Jacquelynn
• Vineyard Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Oakville

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• In Cellars 68 (39%)
• Consumed 106 (61%)

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