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2010 Opus One
3/8/2024 - Wwinowillie Likes this wine: 95 Points
Been sober for 5 months and holding into this bottle for a lot longer than that. Decanted close to 3 hours
The color is dark purple through the middle
Nose: cherry stands out at the top, graphite, baking spices, beautiful floral aromatics, wet concrete, gravel, a savory quality to it like green olive/fresh leather. It’s an outstanding and balanced nose that provides a little bit of everything and tends to change with each glass and sometimes between sips. As it opens it gets more difficult to pick out individual characteristics and it’s just a blend
98/99
The mouthfeel is pretty light and milky, but has a little bit of a syrup-like feel to it as well. The tannins are griply but by no means overpowering or what I would describe as dry. Some new characteristics show up that aren’t present in the nose like outer leaf cigar tobacco, slight mint leaf, cacao, and coffee. The finish is really long lasting and dominated by the deep dark flavors with a little cigar smoke, chewy fresh cut oak, and a lot of savory notes like umami and green olive.
The fruit really fades into the background and becomes a secondary characteristic as this opens up, everything is balanced and will only improve from here, but drinking fantastic now.
95/100 and definitely room to improve
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2013 Newton The Puzzle
7/9/2023 - Wwinowillie Likes this wine: 92 Points
Day after my 33rd bday, seemed fitting to open up this 2013.
Purple with slightly ruby edges.
Nose is a bit sweeter than expected, lots of fruit, but backed up by graphite, leather, oak pellets, licorice, vanilla and cool mint. Really a nice blend.
Very velvety, light mouthfeel, but unlike the nose there is not a ton of fruit, though still plentiful. Tannins are very well integrated, when I think of Newton wine I think of strong tannin, but this is very well integrated. As the glass empties the edges become a bit more burnt. A bit of licorice sticks out along with the fruit, also some savory notes in the finish like black olive.
Not as much sediment as I have come to expect from Newton wine.
Altogether really good, still has many years ahead but good luck finding more bottles.
Solid 92.5 with room for improvement
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2014 Newton Cabernet Sauvignon Single Vineyard Yountville
5/8/2023 - Wwinowillie Likes this wine: 94 Points
Nice dark purple color
Nose: leather, oak, spring flowers, good amount of fruit and minerality. It all comes together to form a beautiful nose
Medium milky smooth mouthfeel, tons of minerality, leather, and some tobacco leaf. The remaining fruit seems to be in perfect harmony with the rest of the wine as it ages. Dark chocolate mixes in with a nice smoky finish.
An amazing wine, one of my favorites
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