2006 Paloma Merlot

Community Tasting Notes (114) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  1/14/2022 - RyanWu wrote: 90 Points

  Pnp. Mine was perfect. Nothing odd was found in here. The wine was pure and straight forward. It’s a great wine to share with newcomers in wine. The bright sides of wine can be seen easily.

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  5/15/2021 - JCaress wrote: 90 Points

  Past its prime, but still tasty. Saving a bit for sampling today.

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  2/26/2021 - tanglenet wrote: flawed

  A horse jumped out of the bottle on opening the brett was so strong. Decanted for about 15 minutes but it went from watery to undrinkable pretty quick.

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  12/27/2020 - JCaress Likes this wine: 95 Points

  The best Merlot I have had in 2020. Fruit was well integrated and drinking flawlessly. Only got better throughout the evening. One more bottle left of this excellent vintage.

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  3/29/2020 - Purple Tooth wrote: 93 Points

  I don't understand the negative posts here...This is a California Merlot folks! Not a French Merlot from St. Emilion. For what it is, this is spot on winemaking, embodied
  by its richness and noticeable oak influence. Its also note worthy to say that in 2006 heavy extraction was in style and it continues today in Napa for many big producers and cult wines. Yet this wine was not over extracted and reminded me a bit of a fleshy old world wines as it warmed up and started flaunting a bit of terroir of its own in the form of dark soil tones.
  
  Maybe its because my bottle was a Magnum from my cold cellar, but it was just delicious. At perfect maturity, yet in no danger of near future fading. The wine was rich and had noticeable levels of oak, but the harmony between the fruit, soft tannin, and oak made things balanced and very nice drinking. Great length....As I was getting down to the last part of the magnum I was thinking...This wine will blow the mind of California Merlot drinkers and open the minds of French Bordeaux drinkers....This is the longest note I've written in a while. I felt the wine deserved a different point of view. Drink

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