Community Tasting Notes 92

• corkcellar wrote: 91 points

  February 6, 2024 - Sadly last magnum. Decanted for 45 min. Barron very aptly summarizes every excellent aspect of this wine and how it is currently drinking. What an absolute pleasure.

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• Baron Slick wrote: 94 points

  August 15, 2023 - What a wine. Brilliant combination of black cherries, dark raspberries, wet earth, licorice, conifer, and a whiff of iodine. Plump, chewy, velvety, tremendous balance for such a big wine. Displays wonderful tension between youthful vigor and bottle age complexity. This runs deep and lengthens and expands with more time in glass. It's accessible now with a decant but has lots of upside moving forward.

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• pjhr Likes this wine: 94 points

  June 13, 2022 - Drinking as beautifully as it did 5 years ago!

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• ikkaariainen Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 22, 2022 - 93+ points. The Foley flagship, this vintage is 100% cab sauv blended from Howell Mtn, Mt. Veeder, Atlas Peak and Calistoga vineyards and the high altitude quality of the grapes comes through. Highly recommend with the caveat that this is now probably just a bit past prime and any remaing bottles need to be drunk up soon. Definitely drink not hold. Beautiful, fully mature and ageing very nicely into a L bank Bdx style wine albeit still more muscular then most aged left bankers of this vintage. Decanting not needed if you just let this sit in the glass for a few minutes with some swirling - short 30 minute splash decant at most. Reddish purple, some peripheral bricking noted, soft supple mouth feel, medium - full bodied, very well balanced, complex and oak and tannins completely resolved with a medium length aftertaste. Nose soft, somewhat muted and more floral then anticipated - more red cherry and raspberry then the expected dark stone fruit present with lavendar, black pepper, vanilla and an interesting hint of mint or perhaps eucalyptus present. On the flavor profile more cedar then oak up front which speaks to the secondary and tertiary notes starting to come through at this stage of development as well as black currant, kirsch, leather, stone, graphite and an ending floral lilac note.

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• shafer1994 Likes this wine: 94 points

  November 2, 2021 - Dark red colour, complex dark berries nose, smooth tannins. A youthful, big wine in a very enjoyable phase. Unfolding bouquet After 1-2 hours without being decanted. Deep and fruity. Californian Red at its best! Wonderful. A compagnion for a nice evening! Still some years to go.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Robert Foley
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Claret
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Codes 055939237508, 1000000000166, 210000008139

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• Pending Delivery 9 (0%)
• In Cellars 1,059 (48%)
• Consumed 1,153 (52%)

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