Community Tasting Notes 15

• VlgJeff Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 16, 2024 - Slo-oxed for 15 minutes which unleashed dark red fruits on the nose. The medium bodied palate showed some blackberry along with black and red cherry, and some spice. The acidity was nicely balancing and any tannins were integrated. A very flavorful Merlot with a great QPR at $18. Could continue to hold for a few years.

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• Josch48 Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 14, 2022 - Opaque black cherry color with lovely and vibrantly unmistakable fruit aromas of pleasantly dusty graphite laced Merlot grapes (try to smell and taste pressed Merlot juice prior to fermentation) and vanilla. The bouquet is reticent due to the wine’s recent liberation from a 50 degree Fahrenheit Maine natural basement cellar.
  The sweet, silky and sophisticated mouthfeel is provided by this heavily extracted wine. It has complementary acidity and a dauntingly present tannin structure that will allow this wine to interestingly evolve over the next five to eight years, without loss of the integrity of the fruit component.
  The wine is at once unidimensional in terms of dense flavor at this point, and the inherently implied complexity will allow this relatively affordable Merlot to show transposed California right bank Bordeaux attributes, all be they modest in comparison, with a relatively short to medium period of cellaring.

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• OldHick95 Likes this wine: 90 points

  February 10, 2022 - Very enjoyable for the price. Nice fruit and some spice. Satisfies expectations for a solid Merlot.

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• swade wrote: 84 points

  September 28, 2021 - Cherry, smoke and that characteristic tomato leaf aftertaste you get too often in merlot. I love merlot. I’ve had some good iterations of this wine. I found this a bit flat and short on the finish. 84

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• Baron Slick wrote: 90 points

  April 22, 2021 - Dusty aromas of red plums, cherries, and smoke. Plump yet tightly wound, with a serious Old World vibe. Ample structure and textural complexity to warm, spicy, and steely flavors. Lovely with a long decant but I'd like to revisit in 3 years.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Markham
• Varietal Merlot
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Codes 085385000005, 085385000012, 8052907000012

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• Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
• In Cellars 151 (26%)
• Consumed 435 (74%)

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