Community Tasting Notes 4

• mkribar wrote:

  September 17, 2023 - Much nicer after having been open for the whole day. Herb inflected fruit on the nose: oregano , sage, cassis, plum skin. Still really structed on the palate with heaps of tannin and acid. This feel smore like CA inflected left bank Bordeaux than what one might imagine as CA merlot. No generic soft fruity wine here. This is super and could benefit from some time horizontal.

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• Hemingway Likes this wine: 91 points

  September 4, 2023 - Was pretty drunk so don't remember much, but I liked it! Smooth and supple with some fresh acidity and fruit.

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• AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 90 points

  October 5, 2022 - Opened for a day and then drank. Ripe plums and cocoa powder on the nose; but a more under ripe plum flavor on the palate backed by fresh sage, mint and dust with a hint of vanilla at the end. It's not TOO oaky; however, the vanilla and the cocoa powder on the nose being the only secondary flavors.
  
  Medium + body with medium acid and medium tannin. You have two options here - either open this a day before you drink it, like I did or age it 2-4 more years to get it to this state. It can age longer too, probably 10 more years.

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• tjb12 Likes this wine: 92 points

  May 11, 2022 - Black fruit, plum, spice, some nice oak notes that mellowed out as it opened up in the decanter. Medium- alcohol, medium body.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type Red
• Producer Frog's Leap
• Varietal Merlot
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Rutherford
• UPC Code 715962090128

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• Consumed 245 (50%)

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