Did not like this at all. I haven't had much Colgin and certainly won't be buying any. What an overpriced joke. Thank God I never bought into the hype and don't have any in my cellar.
Like a big bowl of spaghetti.
On the table compared to other old world wines this was very amateur at best. MEH Boring, so over extracted. Way over the top and over exaggerated everything. What an embarrassment to Napa. Manipulated grape juice being passed off as something else. Welcome to new world nonsense. Fake wine
Too much heat. over extracted and not really drinkable for me. should be 70 points. More than half the bottle remained at the end of the dinner and also in the glasses. Says it all.
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Maybe I am having a hard time with Colgin right now, but a year ago it seemed like every Colgin I had was firing on all cylinders. This is my 2nd Colgin this year (other one was a 19 Cariad) and both kind of disappointed me relative to its pedigree. Don't get me wrong, the wine was very good, but it was not excellent. I decided to pull this for a vacation outing as a sort of redemption from the 19 Cariad I pulled a few weeks ago. The 14 IX Estate was all coiled up tight in the beginning and giving very little. As the evening progressed, the wine got better, but not much more. Some fruit started to rear its little head, but it was just simply locked up like Rapunzel and it probably needs another 3-5 years minimum. It feels like it has all the components to be a good wine, but just needs more time. Even more reason to believe wine is a living thing and that wine goes through phases of good and bad. 93/94 if I had to score today.
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Tasted with 34 hours air. Which perhaps explains why this presents as open, generous and ready to go. Wonderful! Big rich classic blackcurrant and cassis fruit, with some nice earthy leather, cinamon and sandalwood in support. Long finish with some complexity. Drinking now and will last for years.
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2023 Napa; 2/5/2023-2/9/2023 (Napa with a connection in Houston): 2014 IX Estate - as I drank this, I pulled up my note from June 2022 and wondered if I was drinking a different wine. This was a much better showing. Black and red berry fruited, not as structured as the last bottle, a much softer feel across the palate. Hint of blood orange and florals on the finish. I’m guessing this had much better air treatment.
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Opened and into the decanter, first sips at 45 min.
Nose-fresh blackberries, iron ore, herbal components, cigar box, Pritchard Hill all the way. The palate wasn’t as nice, some unripened reddish berry fruit, bitter on the back end like an unripened blood orange. Structured to say the least, but not necessarily overly tannic. I hope this gets better. 94 nose, 86 palate.
At 90 min, the nose began to blossom with stronger notes of floral perfume and crushed raspberries. The structure began to unfurl a bit, revealing subtle fruit and removing the bitterness. Nose 96, palate 90
At 2.5 hrs, the nose became more restrained with charcoal and saline notes appearing. The palate improved a little with blackberry notes finally appearing to match the nose. Nose 94, palate 92.
I opened this too early AND did not give this enough air for full appreciation. It got so much better as we drank and I think we out-drank its peak drinking time from a decant standpoint. That being said, not the best showing, 93 today, I expected a wow wine and didn’t get one, even on a fruit day.
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Decanted briefly. This is one of the most firmly structured Colgins I've tasted, with the depth and purity of black fruit to balance it beautifully. The IX is generally masculine in style and this is no exception. It's showing beautifully now but can go for another decade or two with ease.
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This rich and integrated wine is just remarkable, with incredible power and class. I've had mixed experiences with some Colgin wines, but this is my first IX Estate. For this wine, my opinion is pretty unequivocal. A few years should make it even better (and that is saying something!), but it is fantastic right now - just amazing depth and nuance.
Dark purple in color and full in body, the wine offers welcoming aromas of black cherry, raspberry, anise, and warm gravel. The flavors are concentrated without seeming extracted (read: the wine isn't trying too hard, but it's brilliant all the same), with notes of blueberry skin, sage, cocoa bean, and bay leaf, followed by a lingering finish that carries dusty tannins but a surprisingly amount of integration. Blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Petit Verdot. 14.9% alcohol. Drink in 2022 or later, if you can wait that long.
Dark deep rich black roasted and toasted with an inky anise quality in the aromas. Toffee and coffee flavors with a good chewy. Good structure and density with more black fruited. Good length. Savory and ripe earthy cedar, powerful, mineral driven. Needs time, but good even now. Serious and big. Real length and purity. Just a touch warm?
2014 drought vintage
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Jammy leather. VERY jammy leather. Over-the-top, super sweet, absurd Napa fruit bomb. Should be sold as a concentrate that you reduce 2-to-1 with water. Even if you like this kind of thing, it's wildly over-priced; I defy anyone to pick this out of a crowd of Napa or even Paso jam fruit bombs at a fifth the price. One man's ceiling is another man's floor. In vino veritas.
Nose: Deep, dark purple, black and red fruits, deep forest floor earth (dark black soil), black mulch, fresh new oak accompanied by firm but gentle spice and clean graphite throughout. There's also a very subtle dried crumbled leaves/dried crushed green herbs. With a little bit of time, white flowers and undergrowth show up a little along with pure, gentle vanilla.
Palate: An opulent melding of pure deep earth, slightly savory dark stones and minerals, quality steeped tea, a healthy dose of deep graphite, fine oak along with its firm spice, and black fruits laced throughout. Imagine if you can eat flowers and have it taste like how it smells without the actual bitter, stemmy, leafy green-ness and branch-iness..?
Attributes: Clear, dark ruby. Dry with medium to medium-plus amounts of smooth, chewy tannin. Medium to medium-plus body with medium acidity. Very good finish of about 35-40 seconds.
Thoughts: This is a brooding and grainy but smooth wine. Rich, pure and elegant with earth as its main focus. The body was kinda hard to call.. it's rich and even dense-feeling but stays light on its toes. I always imagined an amazing Bordeaux wine to taste like this. I want to say this is very Bordeaux like with Californian influence (concentration on earth/graphite with fruits/flowers, respectively). I can see this being good throughout its life, whether you enjoy it now or aged, it's going to be good. So far, Colgin has not disappointed *knocks on wood*. 99-100
Other notes: No decant, time in glass only. Bordeaux glass. Served initially ~60° then ~64° and consumed over the course or 2 hours.
Winorama: A winter in Wineland II; 1/6/2018-1/14/2018 (Portland, Eureka, Napa): More powerful than the Tychson Hill cousin that we had alongside. This still has nice fruit that is blacker in nature. Tannin more pronounced and clearly a wine that is made for the longer term (interesting for a 2014 where I feel they are all almost too approachable now). Cinnamon touch. Very interesting and well structured. Enjoyed.
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5/4/2024 - essenceofreal wrote: 80 Points
Did not like this at all. I haven't had much Colgin and certainly won't be buying any. What an overpriced joke. Thank God I never bought into the hype and don't have any in my cellar.
Like a big bowl of spaghetti.
On the table compared to other old world wines this was very amateur at best. MEH Boring, so over extracted. Way over the top and over exaggerated everything. What an embarrassment to Napa. Manipulated grape juice being passed off as something else. Welcome to new world nonsense. Fake wine
Too much heat. over extracted and not really drinkable for me. should be 70 points. More than half the bottle remained at the end of the dinner and also in the glasses. Says it all.
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4/1/2024 - bsumoba wrote: 93 Points
Maybe I am having a hard time with Colgin right now, but a year ago it seemed like every Colgin I had was firing on all cylinders. This is my 2nd Colgin this year (other one was a 19 Cariad) and both kind of disappointed me relative to its pedigree. Don't get me wrong, the wine was very good, but it was not excellent. I decided to pull this for a vacation outing as a sort of redemption from the 19 Cariad I pulled a few weeks ago. The 14 IX Estate was all coiled up tight in the beginning and giving very little. As the evening progressed, the wine got better, but not much more. Some fruit started to rear its little head, but it was just simply locked up like Rapunzel and it probably needs another 3-5 years minimum. It feels like it has all the components to be a good wine, but just needs more time. Even more reason to believe wine is a living thing and that wine goes through phases of good and bad. 93/94 if I had to score today.
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2/16/2024 - LBDWine wrote:
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12/9/2023 - KTelaak_Buffalo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Enjoyed after 1 hour decant and over the next 4 hours. Moments of greatness but overall not spectacular. Tried again on day 2 and it was consistent.
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12/7/2023 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Tasted with 34 hours air. Which perhaps explains why this presents as open, generous and ready to go. Wonderful! Big rich classic blackcurrant and cassis fruit, with some nice earthy leather, cinamon and sandalwood in support. Long finish with some complexity. Drinking now and will last for years.
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2/6/2023 - Geaux Tigers Likes this wine: 96 Points
2023 Napa; 2/5/2023-2/9/2023 (Napa with a connection in Houston): 2014 IX Estate - as I drank this, I pulled up my note from June 2022 and wondered if I was drinking a different wine. This was a much better showing. Black and red berry fruited, not as structured as the last bottle, a much softer feel across the palate. Hint of blood orange and florals on the finish. I’m guessing this had much better air treatment.
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6/23/2022 - Geaux Tigers wrote: 93 Points
Opened and into the decanter, first sips at 45 min.
Nose-fresh blackberries, iron ore, herbal components, cigar box, Pritchard Hill all the way. The palate wasn’t as nice, some unripened reddish berry fruit, bitter on the back end like an unripened blood orange. Structured to say the least, but not necessarily overly tannic. I hope this gets better. 94 nose, 86 palate.
At 90 min, the nose began to blossom with stronger notes of floral perfume and crushed raspberries. The structure began to unfurl a bit, revealing subtle fruit and removing the bitterness. Nose 96, palate 90
At 2.5 hrs, the nose became more restrained with charcoal and saline notes appearing. The palate improved a little with blackberry notes finally appearing to match the nose. Nose 94, palate 92.
I opened this too early AND did not give this enough air for full appreciation. It got so much better as we drank and I think we out-drank its peak drinking time from a decant standpoint. That being said, not the best showing, 93 today, I expected a wow wine and didn’t get one, even on a fruit day.
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6/7/2022 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 98 Points
Decanted briefly. This is one of the most firmly structured Colgins I've tasted, with the depth and purity of black fruit to balance it beautifully. The IX is generally masculine in style and this is no exception. It's showing beautifully now but can go for another decade or two with ease.
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7/31/2020 - msuwine wrote: 97 Points
This rich and integrated wine is just remarkable, with incredible power and class. I've had mixed experiences with some Colgin wines, but this is my first IX Estate. For this wine, my opinion is pretty unequivocal. A few years should make it even better (and that is saying something!), but it is fantastic right now - just amazing depth and nuance.
Dark purple in color and full in body, the wine offers welcoming aromas of black cherry, raspberry, anise, and warm gravel. The flavors are concentrated without seeming extracted (read: the wine isn't trying too hard, but it's brilliant all the same), with notes of blueberry skin, sage, cocoa bean, and bay leaf, followed by a lingering finish that carries dusty tannins but a surprisingly amount of integration. Blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Petit Verdot. 14.9% alcohol. Drink in 2022 or later, if you can wait that long.
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7/18/2020 - KenK Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dark deep rich black roasted and toasted with an inky anise quality in the aromas.
Toffee and coffee flavors with a good chewy. Good structure and density with more black fruited. Good length. Savory and ripe earthy cedar, powerful, mineral driven. Needs time, but good even now. Serious and big. Real length and purity. Just a touch warm?
2014 drought vintage
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4/18/2020 - Fidelixi wrote: 89 Points
Jammy leather. VERY jammy leather. Over-the-top, super sweet, absurd Napa fruit bomb. Should be sold as a concentrate that you reduce 2-to-1 with water. Even if you like this kind of thing, it's wildly over-priced; I defy anyone to pick this out of a crowd of Napa or even Paso jam fruit bombs at a fifth the price. One man's ceiling is another man's floor. In vino veritas.
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3/14/2020 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 100 Points
Nose: Deep, dark purple, black and red fruits, deep forest floor earth (dark black soil), black mulch, fresh new oak accompanied by firm but gentle spice and clean graphite throughout. There's also a very subtle dried crumbled leaves/dried crushed green herbs. With a little bit of time, white flowers and undergrowth show up a little along with pure, gentle vanilla.
Palate: An opulent melding of pure deep earth, slightly savory dark stones and minerals, quality steeped tea, a healthy dose of deep graphite, fine oak along with its firm spice, and black fruits laced throughout. Imagine if you can eat flowers and have it taste like how it smells without the actual bitter, stemmy, leafy green-ness and branch-iness..?
Attributes: Clear, dark ruby. Dry with medium to medium-plus amounts of smooth, chewy tannin. Medium to medium-plus body with medium acidity. Very good finish of about 35-40 seconds.
Thoughts: This is a brooding and grainy but smooth wine. Rich, pure and elegant with earth as its main focus. The body was kinda hard to call.. it's rich and even dense-feeling but stays light on its toes. I always imagined an amazing Bordeaux wine to taste like this. I want to say this is very Bordeaux like with Californian influence (concentration on earth/graphite with fruits/flowers, respectively). I can see this being good throughout its life, whether you enjoy it now or aged, it's going to be good. So far, Colgin has not disappointed *knocks on wood*. 99-100
Other notes: No decant, time in glass only. Bordeaux glass. Served initially ~60° then ~64° and consumed over the course or 2 hours.
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5/11/2018 - cab blends wrote: 92 Points
AHA Hearts Delight Vintners Dinner with Chef Daniel Boulud (Mellon Auditorium - DC): Tobacco and light cinnamon on the nose. Light sandpaper and velvet on the palate.
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1/11/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Winorama: A winter in Wineland II; 1/6/2018-1/14/2018 (Portland, Eureka, Napa): More powerful than the Tychson Hill cousin that we had alongside. This still has nice fruit that is blacker in nature. Tannin more pronounced and clearly a wine that is made for the longer term (interesting for a 2014 where I feel they are all almost too approachable now). Cinnamon touch. Very interesting and well structured. Enjoyed.
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