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Member since November 2018
Real name: Carmelo Sala
Favorite region: Jersey
Dream wine: A bottle of 78’ Ruffino Riserva Ducale while eating marmota monax tar tar.
I’m an insurance salesman & waste management consultant, who’s hobbies include being a performer & longtime member of The Whistling Bellybutton Choir, as well as acting member/president of the Manu Niura Society.
2010 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Artemis
2/1/2019 - BadaBingAgain Likes this wine:
A Cab that should more than please both those who shy away from fruit driven Cab/Merlot/Bordeaux choices, and those who embrace them.
The ‘10 here is hitting on all cylinders right now, and drinking as good as I’ve ever tasted it. I’d venture to say that this is in its ‘drink now’ state, as more cellaring time is more seams like it may hurt, rather than help it.
For my tastes/preferences, the Staggs Leap District produces some of Napa’s most consistently poignant big reds, and while Stag’s Leap Cellars is right up there on that list, their neighbors aren’t so bad either. I honestly can’t think of one bad experience from any of that district’s wines. This Stag’s Leap Cellars mass release is a perfect yearly add, subtract wine/price, but do yourself a favor if you like this wine; try some others who produce from The Stags Leap District too.
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2015 Hall Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall Napa Valley
1/23/2019 - BadaBingAgain Does not like this wine:
Way way way too much alcohol for my taste, at least with how it’s applied in proportion to the rest of its parts. Bottle stated 15.5%, but it appeared even more concentrated: 15.5%+ alcohol seams to defy sense and logic, not to mention is sense deadening.
*I may have had the 2014 rather than the 2015 this was written against, and in checking, the stated alcohol content is 15.8%, which still seams lower than how it comes through in its taste/quaff.
Against my nose and pallet, the alcohol completely dominates everything else, and while it finishes nicely once the alcohol dissipates, by that time the sip has well ended and it’s quality finish is left to act as damage control rather than a complimenting conclusion. Oddly, or not so, it made me think about those who drown great Chinese food in an endless soy sauce pouring; maybe that thought came to mind since I suspect the need for that type of sodium drenching to off set the overbearing alcohol in the wine.
My aunt loved it, as did some others I had it with; so was my loss their gain? If it was, then the wine finally did show some balance to me in the end.
Likely alone in my opinion here I’m sure, and around 140+ bottle, and a sea of better options out there for much less, i can lie and say I’ll be richer for it too.
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2017 La Onda El Colo
1/14/2019 - BadaBingAgain Likes this wine:
Wow, fantastic wine!
Out of the bottle with no decant it was fresh, lighten medium body intro, under spoken rich balance minerals/acids offset with just the right amount tannins against it’s fruit/sugars. It may be overlooked by some (no pun intended) at first glance out of the bottle, as it may appear a bit thin to eye, and since the eyes have the very first sip, they usually alter our taste perceptions without realizing so. But, the presentation is pleasantly deceiving as its depth and balance, even in this most infant stage, is perfect. I actually quite enjoyed the first glass, even with my impatience in not giving it much of a chance to start stretching out and waking up from it’s short nap in the bottle.
Second day it opens up into more of a true medium body intro with the same balance, now giving a bit more of the acids/minerals up front which are cast out through multiplications of its original layers, which seams to have added density in both taste and appearance. One it’s amazing qualities is that somehow the fruits/sugars come thru equally woken as to compliment the acids/minerals in again, perfect balance. Not an easy accomplishment in any art form, especially so in winemaking as every maker has to forfeit a percentage of control to Mother Nature and her endless alchemical/biological unpredictable nuances.
The finish on both days were long and endless. Which version is better, day 1 or 2? Both are great really. In it’s most youthful version, it was, and would be, perfect for medium/light type fat(s) enriched meals.Day two went perfect with a grassfed steak, but I assume it would be perfect with anything, or even nothing at all. All this and it’s just a baby.
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