Community Tasting Note

mflesh wrote:

Monday, July 2, 2012 - Recommended by Daniel Dawson at BackRoomWines.com - Wine was uncorked with zero cork bleed, light purple stain on the cork. Wine poured a deep red into the glass. Rather full bodied. Acidity was there, but blew off rather quickly. The wine was rather balanced from start to finish. Good mountain fruit throughout the palette. Comparing this to O'Shaughnessy Mount Veeder's "cab" you just can't compare the two. This is a medium to full bodied Mt Veeder Cab. Front was all blackberry, vanilla. Soft on the entry with blackberry and vanilla wafer with hints of blueberry. Not too dry. The oak barrel started to creep in, giving a darker characteristic and giving more of a caramel mocha (?) type of feel. Tannin crept in rather late, and the wine did dry but never dominated any portion of the experience. When paired with some spicy salami, the spice on this wine was crazy - easily tripled. Subtle hints of pepper spice turned into rather strong black pepper spice in the finish. Nice surprise. Best Veeder wine I've had? No. Is this an "affordable" Veeder offering that you can serve to people that would impress them? Absolutely. I bet this wine has another 5 years in it, but overall I'd say probably not much more. The tannin was either absent or just soft (but still there). Either way I'd love to have a few more of these, but the cellar isn't big enough for the other thousand I've yet to try. Worth your time and money.

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