Community Tasting Note

mflesh wrote:

Saturday, October 8, 2011 - I was offered a taste of this wine at a 2011 wine tasting in downtown Fort Worth. Didn't see the cork pulled, but the aromatics were smelled about 3 inches from putting your nose in the glass. This is a lighter fruit style of wine for being a Napa Cab. I didn't get a lot of dark deep fruit or cocoa. Taste was cocoa, dark fruit with a very spicy finish for a cabernet. The wine is intricately laced, tannins very firm, almost a little obnoxious. This was like a "light jam bomb." This wine was a bit unbalanced with little fruit, bold with a crude finish, hence the sub-90 rating, but the structure might be very good to others and definitely has many plus-90 ratings. I would like to see how another 1-2 years of cellaring changes the finishing characteristics of the wine, and to see if it actually develops anything fruity on the front. If those two things are improved upon, this is a 94 waiting to happen.

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