Community Tasting Note

King of all vines wrote:

Thursday, March 19, 2015 - So here we are several years past the last posted comment. The "Coda" if you will to Garden's "Coda" to my comments back 9 years ago in 2006. This wine is still very drinkable. Is it youthful and full of life? No. Does it have a tremendous tannin structure giving it a long time to live? No. But it is good and very drinkable. No color fade that you see in wines 10+ years of age. Not a tremendous amount of sediment build up. Just a nice, easy drinking California blend. Certainly if you have any left it is time to let go and pop the cork as the time is near the end. Tasted blind against 20+ other wines including a 97 Quilceda Creek, 2001 Ch. Rieussec, 2000 Leonetti Merlot, 2002 Cristal, 2005 Williams Selyem Zinfandel, 2012 Jayson Cabernet Sauvignon, 2012 Buccella Merlot and many more and everyone in the room was shocked to see the vintage be from 99. The color and taste certainly didn't indicate so.

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