Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Monday, September 25, 2023 - No notes taken. Three 1992 Napa wines side-by-side. All three displayed that the vintage is currently in an amazing spot: open, intense and expressive, highly layered with a good portion of primary fruit mixed with tertiary aromas, herbs and minerality, soft and round but with good tension and good freshness. The Caymus Special Selection (97pts) was the most layered and exciting wine with lots of spiciness. But I think this will be even better in 10 years when it will be more tertiary and lose a bit of the quite intensive fruit aromas. The Togni (96pts) was the most Bordeaux-esque in the line-up, so clear and clean without any of the excess the Caymus still has. This bottle wasn‘t quite as sharp and layered as the last one a few months ago (rated 98pts) but only got better with air and was reached its peak on day two. The Eisele (94pts) had some signs of decline on the nose but was drinking well on the palate, tertiary the core but with enough ripe fruit to still be exciting.

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