Wow. Decanted 3 hours and this wine is singing with deep plum and dark fruit including blackberry but with enough acid and baking spices from the Syrah to balance it. So enjoyable I can’t wait for the next sip. Well done Mr. Burns! Could go for another 5 years but is delicious now with decant. Best Claude’s I’ve had from TR. If you’re wondering, not as savory as SQN and more fruit forward. Still amazing.
This is a really nice and complex cab. Drank after 2 hr decant which is recommended for all Booker wines as a matter of course. Great cassis, blueberry and raspberry notes on a floor of grippy tannins. This wine should evolve over the next 5+ years. Really enjoyable if not too complex.
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Took over an hour to open up. On open it was closed and grapey. But eventually evolved to encompass cassis and blackberry, herbs and some baking spice. Still a bit grippy and could use some aging. But it’s a nice everyday sipper if you’re willing to decant for a while.
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2019 Turtle Rock Claude's Cuvee
2/2/2024 - Paul4 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Wow. Decanted 3 hours and this wine is singing with deep plum and dark fruit including blackberry but with enough acid and baking spices from the Syrah to balance it. So enjoyable I can’t wait for the next sip. Well done Mr. Burns! Could go for another 5 years but is delicious now with decant. Best Claude’s I’ve had from TR. If you’re wondering, not as savory as SQN and more fruit forward. Still amazing.
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2019 Booker Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon My Favorite Neighbor
2/2/2024 - Paul4 Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is a really nice and complex cab. Drank after 2 hr decant which is recommended for all Booker wines as a matter of course. Great cassis, blueberry and raspberry notes on a floor of grippy tannins. This wine should evolve over the next 5+ years. Really enjoyable if not too complex.
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2021 Donne Fittipaldi Bolgheri
1/24/2024 - Paul4 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Took over an hour to open up. On open it was closed and grapey. But eventually evolved to encompass cassis and blackberry, herbs and some baking spice. Still a bit grippy and could use some aging. But it’s a nice everyday sipper if you’re willing to decant for a while.
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