2006 Pulenta Estate Gran Cabernet Franc XI

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  12/25/2023 - studleytrey wrote: 91 Points

  Last one; these have been great. Deep garnet, bricking edges. Smells like dark fruits, earth, graphite, tea, floral, and cedar. Medium body and finish, with flavors of dark fruits, dark chocolate, dark red fruits, orange peel. Nice with our standing rib roast.

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  3/8/2020 - studleytrey Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Shared with family and friends out of less than ideal stems and didn't get to take formal notes, but this was drinking great tonight with a nice aged character coming through, in spite of the cork crumbling. Smooth and integrated with dark red fruits and cedar. Will have my last bottle soon.

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  12/26/2019 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine: 91 Points

  As this is my last bottle, I think this is a delicious new world cabernet franc with loads of fruit, including boysenberry, raspberry and other dark, ripe fruits. Surprisingly, this was the best bottle out of the 6 that I have had. I think it will last a few more years.

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  1/15/2019 - JM_MadTown wrote: 87 Points

  While the wine is enjoyable, it’s complexity is lacking. It does have dark red fruit, good acidity and mellow tannins.

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  11/8/2018 - JM_MadTown Likes this wine: 89 Points

  The wine is very aromatic and the color has softened to a bright red. On the palate, it has boysenberry and blueberry fruit, however, it seems to me that the fruit is fading at this point in time.

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