2010 Favia Grenache The Lincoln

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  10/16/2019 - sfwinelover1 wrote:

  Consistent with 5/2 note and TP's TNs. Somewhere between interesting and strange (how about different?). Having had twice, see no need to have again (although I have another bottle of the '11, which was a bit better on the first tasting, general weakness of the vintage notwithstanding).

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  7/3/2019 - tplskylrk wrote:

  Second one in last few days. This opens as a sweet candided light fruited approach. Yikes what a mess on opening and although it evolves and gets "better" the style is way out there.

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  5/2/2019 - sfwinelover1 wrote: 88 Points

  2nd of 4 bottles (2 '10s and 2 '11s) from an auction lot at a bit over $30/bottle. I love CdPs but seldom drink American grenaches, which, along with the Favia lineage, made this very interesting to me. Hour+ decant. Powerful nose of candied fruit and baking spices. Sweet red raspberries and muted cherries along with dried spice on the palate. No acidity to speak of, but powerful tannins. Light to medium color and body. Without the acidity of French Grenache-based wines, this might more easily pass for a RRV pinot or even a lighter bodied zin. Decent match with seafood skewers and crab m&c. I don't know what this wine was like in its youth or where it's going, but right now it's odd, perhaps unusual is a better word. Not bad unusual, not good unusual, just unusual, almost like liquid cotton candy. Interesting and different at what I paid for it, but at the wine-searcher and vivino prices (both about $75) listed to the right, I'd be disappointed.

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  3/31/2019 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Medium dark red, herbs, tobacco, dried cherries and tannins on the finish. Surprisingly mediocre

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  1/30/2019 - Tetherton Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This was one of the best wines we have had in the past few months (and we enjoy a lot each week). On the open, it was terrific and soared from there. After 30 minutes, the flavor profile was ripe red raspberries and a lovey over-layer of mocha chocolate. The tannins were resolved and the finish was very smooth and silky. It was terrific with Sockeye salmon. This was our last bottle but so it goes.....

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