Community Tasting Note

mflesh wrote:

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - A $40 Napa Cab that tastes like a $90 Napa Cab. Impressive little wine. Spent 26 months in 1/3 new French Oak. I left the last one of these bottles to sit for over a year. It's been a while since the second bottle. This wine is showing NO SIGNS of oxidation, no tertiary notes. Cork was popped to about a 25 percent bleed and a dark black stain on the cork. Nose on the cork was pure blackberry. Bottle didn't show much nose-wise, but once the wine was poured, blackberry was the nose in the glass along with a subtle sweetness. The entry was soft, blackberry and smoke dominated the front. The middle was where this one took a turn to the dark side, but instead of developing earthy or vegetal characteristics, it started to develop a baking chocolate / cocoa sweetness, with black pepper and black licorice. Finished with cocoa and cedar-type tannin. A little bit of sediment on the neck and in the final 20ml of pour. After 2 hours, no signs of oxidation were noted and this one seemed just as youthful. Drink 2013-2022.

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