Dark fruits, crushed granite and light spice came through. Opened beautifully in the glass over about three hours. Deep red in color. Finish lasted 30 plus seconds and tannins had really mellowed.
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Nice food wine, leaner style that is pretty symbolic with the immediate vicinity that it comes from in the Napa Valley growing area. Berries, licorice and a gravelly note that shows up in the back palette. A very good wine, but not a great one and when you price up high you get graded high.
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Brilliant wine. Took a good 3.5 hrs to open. Pretty purple color. Incredible notes of dark berries, dark cherries, spearmint, wet earth, mint chocolate, toasted oak and melted licorice. Silky smooth palate that adds amazing characteristics while remaining so light on its feet. Good acidity, ripe tannins on long finish. Melka did a fine job.
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6 hour slow ox. While tannins more settled than prior bottle couple years ago, didn’t have much a wow factor. Wondering if asleep right now. Revisit next bottle in at least 5 more years.
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A tick above the 15 GIII that I opened the a few days before. One of the more cellar worthy wines under the A.M. consulting. Consumed over three days and was enjoyable at every approach.
Hold or a long decant. 95+
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Oak is still disjointed. This sweet vanilla massive French oak is still overpowering everything. Most likely this will integrate in 2-5 years. Underneath appears to be a wall of delicious bright but dark blackberry fruit with a backbone of a dark chocolate cake. This just needs time.
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Charity Pouring - Stones, Fairchild, Brand and Immortal (Hidden Ridge) (Craft LA - West Los Angeles): As with the Stones 2, this wine is from elevation and it shows with lots of earth driven notes on the nose, combining with tobacco, spices and a bit of red cherry fruit. This is pretty killer stuff, with firm but approachable tannins, nicely layered red and blue fruit, lots of spice box and serious freshness and purity. Of the Fairchild wines I tasted, this was the longest on the finish. A real solid effort and relative to the price of Stones, a much better value.
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Fairchild and Benediction tasting event. #2 wine of night for me. Dark plum/crimson, spicy red fruit core, acid and structure evident for long life ahead.
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4/14/2024 - andrewdl Likes this wine: 97 Points
Fantastic with homemade pizza night. Great expression of classic Napa cab.
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2/12/2024 - Tonythefish Likes this wine: 94 Points
Dark fruits, crushed granite and light spice came through. Opened beautifully in the glass over about three hours. Deep red in color. Finish lasted 30 plus seconds and tannins had really mellowed.
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10/29/2023 - Bryanb2002 wrote: 94 Points
Nice food wine, leaner style that is pretty symbolic with the immediate vicinity that it comes from in the Napa Valley growing area. Berries, licorice and a gravelly note that shows up in the back palette. A very good wine, but not a great one and when you price up high you get graded high.
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2/4/2023 - Cablover1982 Likes this wine: 96 Points
Brilliant wine. Took a good 3.5 hrs to open. Pretty purple color. Incredible notes of dark berries, dark cherries, spearmint, wet earth, mint chocolate, toasted oak and melted licorice. Silky smooth palate that adds amazing characteristics while remaining so light on its feet. Good acidity, ripe tannins on long finish. Melka did a fine job.
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11/11/2022 - EM_MB Likes this wine: 92 Points
6 hour slow ox. While tannins more settled than prior bottle couple years ago, didn’t have much a wow factor. Wondering if asleep right now. Revisit next bottle in at least 5 more years.
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10/31/2022 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 95 Points
A tick above the 15 GIII that I opened the a few days before. One of the more cellar worthy wines under the A.M. consulting. Consumed over three days and was enjoyable at every approach.
Hold or a long decant. 95+
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12/5/2020 - EM_MB wrote: 94 Points
6 hour slow ox. Tannins still grippy but not overly so. Oak still a bit too pronounced, my sense is will be 96+ in about 5 years. Hold.
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12/5/2020 - Dalex Likes this wine: 92 Points
Oak is still disjointed. This sweet vanilla massive French oak is still overpowering everything. Most likely this will integrate in 2-5 years. Underneath appears to be a wall of delicious bright but dark blackberry fruit with a backbone of a dark chocolate cake. This just needs time.
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11/16/2018 - SpotterLA2 wrote: 97 Points
Drink 2018-2038
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5/23/2018 - Cristal2000 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Charity Pouring - Stones, Fairchild, Brand and Immortal (Hidden Ridge) (Craft LA - West Los Angeles): As with the Stones 2, this wine is from elevation and it shows with lots of earth driven notes on the nose, combining with tobacco, spices and a bit of red cherry fruit. This is pretty killer stuff, with firm but approachable tannins, nicely layered red and blue fruit, lots of spice box and serious freshness and purity. Of the Fairchild wines I tasted, this was the longest on the finish. A real solid effort and relative to the price of Stones, a much better value.
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3/7/2018 - dclaggett Likes this wine: 95 Points
Fairchild and Benediction tasting event.
#2 wine of night for me. Dark plum/crimson, spicy red fruit core, acid and structure evident for long life ahead.
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