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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - Indistinguishable from a First Growth Left Bank claret on the nose. Youthful (despite its age) and indulgent. Deeply warming and comforting. So appealing and seductive. Treacle, plum cake, sandalwood, leather, prunes, cherries, damson jam. Soft, velvety tannins. Long and satisfying. In fact, delicious. So here's the thing: what about this wine is Napa Valley? It is not about terroir at all, but Christian Moueix's hugely successful attempt to prove that "it can be done" somewhere other than Bordeaux. So it is a fundamentally dishonest and therefore supremely irritating wine. An unnecessary distraction. An immensely successful, but pointless, exercise in theatrical verisimilitude. Pure vinous histrionics. Not for me - this is a spectacularly inauthentic charade.

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