2008 Flora Springs Cabernet Sauvignon Holy Smoke Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  7/27/2019 - TexasBob Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Deep, pretty medium red. Blueberries, milk chocolate, plum skim, and red raspberries at the edges of the gorgeous nose. An explosion of flavor from beginning to end featuring delicious mixed notes of mixed red and dark berries with an intense blueberry finish gradually joined by raspberries. A little thinner-bodies than is ideal to me but overall a beautiful wine.

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  6/15/2013 - JDV.DDSPHD wrote: 94 Points

  Wonderful nose if black currant and black cherry with a touch or blueberry Smoky notes with a slight toasted oak characteristic. The most fruit driven of any of the wines of the night. Finish was shorter than the others but still a decent 30 seconds. The tannins were not over powering and let the fruit and chalky/earthy notes shine through. The fruit really leads up front then comes back around on the finish. Loved it.

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  8/5/2011 - Ben Paquet wrote: 92 Points

  Second winery visited during my first ever Napa wine Tour:
  
  Greaters at the front desk told me that Flora Springs have taken bordeaux Grand Cru as their model. They are not looking at the producing jammy Napa Cab.
  
  Nose: Nice bordeaux style, oak, earth, cassis, smoke, fills the nosewith Blackberry in the end.
  
  Palate: Holy Smoke this is powerful. Tobacco, wet stone and pure fruit which is mostly cassis, ripe blackberries and plum. Extremely tannic (Feels like the Tannin are not liquid but solid) with a long finish.
  
  very good !
  
  92-93+
  
  Voila !

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  4/19/2011 - PSUSteve wrote:

  At the tasting room. Nose was deep and rich with tons of fruit on the palate and a nice finish.

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