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Sunday, June 15, 2014 - --- Unbelievable Wine Dinner at our Home with Victoria and Sharon! ---
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COLOR: Opaque purple with garnet-purple rim
NOTE: Placed 4th out of 5 CS/CF-based 2012's from Bevan. The following note is based on what was left of the bottle 24 hours later:
Lovely loam-driven nose, bourbon vanilla bean, complicated by dark chocolate drizzled over macerated boysenberries. Hints of cracked pepper, whiff of heat. My kind of dessert! This seems to be much more giving than the PnP yesterday, indicating a good 2+ years will benefit the wine.
If this is still CF-dominant then this is an excellent example of what can be achieved by this varietal in California.
And if the complement in the wine is still Merlot, then this should make Merlot snobs shut up and take notice.
The mouth is rich, sweet with glycerin (but not opulent), full of black cherry, boysenberry, 70% dark chocolate truffle melting in your mouth. The finish was a bit clipped yesterday (no duh, it was only bottled 3 months ago) but today is a diff story. That lovely loam element reappears, giving amazing depth/volume to the rich black fruit compote. Some noticeable heat at the end, but worth the price of such ripe fruit. Bevan - Oh thank Heaven! Victoria, Russell and Sharon are amazing. Most hospitable folks in the industry!!!

DECANT: 0-24 hours
GLASS USED: Bordeaux
TASTE: 9.3+
COST: 150
VALUE: 3.0
TRY AGAIN: 2016 - 2022
CORAVIN'D: no
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