Community Tasting Notes 10

• walkerjfw wrote: 94 points

  February 16, 2016 - Lunch at Solage with Tom/Juan/Jamie to kick off PNV week. Amazing food and excellent wines...drank along with a 2012 Dana Sauvignon Blanc, 95 Dominus, 13 Realm Houyi and Petit Syrah from Jamie (not named...) This was a generous contribution from Tom....Lower neck fill on this bottle, cork came out clean, very well stored. Drank this over a couple hours during an extended and hedonistic lunch...
  
  Pale garnet color, bricking at the edges. Took some time to open, tight when opened with mostly barnyard/brett. Fruits were muted red cherry...After 30+ minutes the wine started to wake up showing dusted red cherry, eucalyptus, bay leaf, earth, "tomato paste". After about 90 minutes a cedar and caramel/burnt sugar started to show. Texture was soft, nuanced medium finish.
  
  This is past its peak but still very nice to drink. Well stored bottles should hold at this level, but I would drink soon if given the chance. Integrated and elegant, its nice to see what a well stored bottles from that era has become. A decant is a must, the wine needs time to open...the last sips of this were showing the most complexity.

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• hackey37 Likes this wine: 89 points

  May 30, 2015 - Garnet color, dark but translucent and a hint of brick to the edge. The smells are bretty at first and then subside followed by hint of cherry cough medicine, whiffs of mint, vegetal notes, and earthy notes. The tastes are cherry, earth, tobacco, with a tart finish with a hint of tannins left.

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• caeleric Likes this wine:

  April 15, 2012 - used an ah-so to extract the cork, gently poured into a decanter, rinsed the bottle out and poured back in the bottle for a 30-minute aeration.
  
  first of all, the cork was tremendous. ZERO bleed. amazing! the wine was a bricking pale crimson, very pinot-esque in color. but the wine was a champ! enormously expressive aromas of bay leaf, mint, tomato puree, small dried red berries, attic, tobacco, and cassis. fully integrated tannins that yielded a soft and silky texture, but a gorgeously mature flavor profile, bringing in some steeped tea. this was a treat and proof that california wines can and do age very well. if scoring, 93-95. certainly on the decline, but with a long ways to go.

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• ctjared wrote:

  August 4, 2011 - Brought to a cab tasting event. Powerful ashtray on the nose and after 30 mins was drinking tremendously. What a surprise and a pleasure next to much younger fruitier competition.

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• DTWOB wrote:

  December 26, 2009 - Alas, corked. It was a gift, but disapointing all the same.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1981
• Type Red
• Producer Caymus
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Code 018138504024

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• In Cellars 90 (67%)
• Consumed 44 (33%)

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