Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 24 Napa Reds: All tasted double blind. Brief impressions. The tasting was a competition of two groups about bringing “Napa wines which are in a very good drinking spot right now” with us blind tasters as jury. As there were a lot of wines, prolonged decanting was not an option. I was really surprised that somebody would bring a 2013 to such a tasting as I hardly ever had a 2013 which is remotely open and ready (confirmed with 4 out of the 24 wines being from 2013 and none of them being really ready). Relatively muted nose with mainly minerality peaking through but everything else hardly showing. Beautiful sweetness and freshness on the palate but not much else showing. Tannins are ripe but still noticeable. This would have been much better and more expressive with a solid 5+ hours decant.

Group score (23 participants): 93.8
Group rank: 17 out of 24 wines

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