Community Tasting Note

jvogel wrote:

Monday, September 5, 2011 - Great varietal aroma, no rough edges–acid and ripeness all in composed balance–and ripe. Not over-ripe, not barely ripe: ripe. It was so nice to have Cabernet like that, and this hopefully sheds light not only on how great a vintage 2007 was when not overly exploited, but also perhaps a new stylistic vanguard within the ranks of higher case-production wineries. If that’s really the case, I’m all in. One taster mentioned a degree of acid not usually seen in Cali Cabs; I agree. This acid was intense, which I'm quite fond of, so long as it's not protruding into the "we obviously acidified this year" territory (which I hope is not the case here). I'm really confounded by James Laube's 80 point score for this over at the Spectator. Then again, this is the same guy who tastes verticals of over-hyped wines with the producers themselves present and accounted for. So I wouldn't exactly say the 80 points is an objective, credible score, for all you score-hounds out there who may have passed on this wine on account of the plonk-ish rating.

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