Community Tasting Notes 11

• River Rat wrote:

  February 5, 2020 - Library purchase during an Open House back in 2016. Day 1 about 2 hours in. This is still a baby, dark fruit is prominent, a real mouthful but not like HonestBob mentioned in the prior note. There’s nothing sticky about this. Plenty of ripe tannins with some nice pyrazine notes, mouthwatering acidity. Keep this lying down for another decade at least. While enjoyable it has so much more to offer as it ages. I’ll check back in tomorrow but am not expecting much to change. I’ll just enjoy it’s youthfulness for now. Now, to reload.

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• honest bob wrote:

  January 13, 2019 - From 75cl, exquisitely perfect cork, stained only 0,3mm(!) back. Decanted 30 minutes off crystalline deposit, 6 hours would have been more appropriate. My TN from 23.05.2012 seems a lot more accurate than my more recent ones. At this exact moment, this exact bottle of this wine (perfect storage since purchase from winery in 2010) is completely primary. To be more precise: It has the texture and taste of super-ripe hard-core red-grape juice. If you have harvested grapes, you'll know that feeling that your skin is being leached, even attacked by the sticky sugar and intense essence of the grape-juice? Well, this is how this feels: It jet-cleans your palate with super-concentrated blackberry-flavoured grape juice at what feels like a Trockenbeerenauslese level of residual sugar (and 14,5% alc.) If you have this in the cellar: Well done, but please wait at least 5 years (unless you like immature Aussie Shiraz, that is...) or decant this overnight... The only Cabernet experience I remember as similar at a comparable age was a 2003 Forts de Latour tasted in late 2015 (CT TN 11.09.2015). NR, no idea, it might turn out really great and made for eternity, or it might just be that this sugar-mess is the end-point.

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• honest bob wrote: 92 points

  July 1, 2017 - From 75cl, exquisite cork (barely stained 0,5mm back from wine end) decanted 1 hour. Super mint-cedar-dark fruit-pencil lead scent; same again on the entry (blackcurrant, blackberry) with added eucalyptus zing. Full-bodied, with unctuous glycerine and 14,5% alc. For my old-world palate, this is an exciting, very high quality Cab in the mould of the 1998 D'Arenberg's Coppermine Road, but in European terms showing quite some super-ripe Syrah (blackberry, extravagant spice, aromatic herbs) and Grenache (fat! sweat! lubrication!) characteristics. A luxury experience at a very civil price, entering maturity now, but with a decade to go. 91-92P

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• mrmikemtr Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 21, 2015 - Drinking well now. Cherries on the nose, currant, cherries , dark fruit, spice. Balanced and smooth finish. Medium long finish. A touch of heat. Sad this is my last bottle :-(

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• bugdoced Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 8, 2014 - in a good drinking spot with dark fruit and some evolving tannins that serve to give some nice backbone;there is some spice/cassis too which adds to the depth

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Scherrer Winery
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Scherrer Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Alexander Valley

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• In Cellars 56 (36%)
• Consumed 97 (63%)

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