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Saturday, July 7, 2018 - Taste Top Pick Wines for July (San Diego Wine Co.): 32% Merlot, 24% C.S., 18% Syrah, 14% C.F., 8% Malbec, & 4% Petit Verdot; "...16 mos in contact with oak..."; ABV 14.0 % • TA 0.62 g/100ml • pH 3.82.

Gold Medal - '17 Seattle Wine Awards
Silver Medal - '18 S.F. Chronicle Wine Comp @ $20
Wine of the Week & Outstanding! rating - Great Northwest Wine, 9/5/17
Bronze Medal - '17 L.A. International Wine Competition

N: Toast, smoke, slightly atop cherries, poss pyrazines

P: Med, poss LM, body; RNDISH entry with nice, ALMOST swtish frt met by puckerish astringency which only somewhat mitigates by the LONG, pleasant, bitterSWT choc (?) finish. NEEDS through '19, then for for 3+ yrs more. My VG+, poss EXC-, more IF one focuses upon the QPR of this vendor's $11.99, which is roughly $1 < the next lowest of wine-searcher's skewed entries.]

Note: For whatever reason, I found this bottle considerably better than the one I tasted on 3/10/2018.

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