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Community Tasting Notes (35) Avg Score: 91.5 points

  • Double decanted a magnum back into the bottle and served at a party. There was some nice body to this wine as well as a touch of alcohol. I feel Switchback wines are typically lush, fruity and modern, and although this was pleasant with some earth, I don't think this is holding up all that well, even from magnum. It could also be the 2003 vintage, just a bad combination of age, style and vintage. I had a similar and even worse experience with a regular bottle of 2006 recently. and a 2007 a couple years ago.

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  • My first bottle of the 2003 since I was infatuated with Switchback PS @12-15 years ago. Back then I drank all I got. Found this at auction and had to buy it. Full bodied, still noticeable tannin, and thankfully still delicious dark fruits. Not the outrageous concentrated fruit bomb of 15 years ago but it went beautifully with filet mignon.

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  • Blackberry sauce, chocolate liqueur, vanilla, and soy sauce. The fruit is nice but the wine's extraction, alcohol, and oak is a bit too much for me. Nice, but not my style.

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  • Wonderful nose of dark fruit and asphalt. Really big in the mouth but not over the top, with a great peppery kick at the end. A bit harsh on day 1, but smoother and just delicious on day 2.

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  • Again...jumps out of the glass with nose of PURPLE fruit, spice, bacon fat, oh, the things! Just an all around people pleaser, this wine. I must find more! More!

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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    May/June 2006, IWC Issue #126, (See more on Vinous...)

    (Switchback Ridge Petite Sirah Peterson Family Vineyard Napa Valley) Login and sign up and see review text.

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