Still young but showing well. Vanilla and cinnamon on the nose, palate is loaded with dark berries and hints of leather. Tannins are elegant and finish is long
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Medium bodied and fruit forward. Dark fruits come through with a nice finish. Medium to deep red color. Good wine and a long time fan, and very enjoyable every year
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At $99 a bottle, I had expected a gorgeous Napa Cab. When I was told it would reward aging, I wondered: there were no discernible tannins. This wine may need time to come together or perhaps it's just an overrated red. At any rate, it was all over the lot with almost none of the beguiling features I love in Napa Cabernets, like Blackberry and cassis flavors, cedar/pencil shavings or eucalyptus, and tannins that may range from soft-grained to abrasive. A medium-bodied, deeply-colored wine, this simply said The Emperor Has No Clothes. I will return to my usual passions: Phelps, Pine Ridge, Heitz or Chateau Montelena, thank you.
5/21/2024 - Tonythefish Likes this wine: 91 Points
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4/27/2024 - Rramey Likes this wine: 92 Points
nice fruit forward with dark berries. Nice and chewy!
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1/26/2024 - willharvel wrote: 91 Points
Still young but showing well. Vanilla and cinnamon on the nose, palate is loaded with dark berries and hints of leather. Tannins are elegant and finish is long
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1/15/2024 - Tonythefish Likes this wine: 90 Points
Medium bodied and fruit forward. Dark fruits come through with a nice finish. Medium to deep red color. Good wine and a long time fan, and very enjoyable every year
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12/9/2023 - lindz_braver Likes this wine: 85 Points
Full bodied. Good finish. BlackBerry.
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4/12/2023 - WineKnut Likes this wine: 93 Points
Sacrificed one to the curiosity gods for consumption over two days.
Day one was very fruit forward and simple, even after 3-4 hours of air at the end of the night.
By day two this wine had it all. Dry fruit, touch of tobacco and licorice, cheek coating tannins, wet granite and graphite finish. Super.
Please give this some time to come together, maybe 4-5 years for me.
Beautiful.
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12/17/2022 - Diderot Does not like this wine: 85 Points
At $99 a bottle, I had expected a gorgeous Napa Cab. When I was told it would reward aging, I wondered: there were no discernible tannins. This wine may need time to come together or perhaps it's just an overrated red. At any rate, it was all over the lot with almost none of the beguiling features I love in Napa Cabernets, like Blackberry and cassis flavors, cedar/pencil shavings or eucalyptus, and tannins that may range from soft-grained to abrasive. A medium-bodied, deeply-colored wine, this simply said The Emperor Has No Clothes. I will return to my usual passions: Phelps, Pine Ridge, Heitz or Chateau Montelena, thank you.
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