Community Tasting Note

Frank Murray III wrote:

Thursday, January 15, 2015 - February '15 Bookclub--Hosted by SPK (wines tasted blind) (Red Table--Huntington Beach, CA): Tasted blind, was the last wine of 5 that we did for the meal. Oy vay, this is a big wine. On first impression, to make a guess at the table, I though petite sirah as it had a strong aromatic of really ripe fruit, as well as a dark impression in the glass. A few guys at the table also guessed petite. But, for some reason I fell back towards Cab and then when thinking about my initial guess of petite, landed with Switchback Ridge. There is for me a lot of alcohol here, and it's embedded into the aromatic for sure, coming off a bit soapy. It's that combo of oak and high ripeness that for me is too much. Coffee, milk chocolate, iron and lots of fruit. For context, I do buy and enjoy the SR Petites and even this year, I took a handful of 375s of Merlot for the first time. The latter was tight recently, as I opened one and found the wine to have great grip and long-term potential but it wasn't to me styled like this Cab. In the end, I didn't care for this Cab but for those who know me, I don't buy nor drink Napa Cab but there will be an audience for this wine. I would suggest this wine be paired with the right food, and for context, we had it with bacon wrapped dates that had a little citrus liquid on them and the pairing went very well.

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