2010 Jeff Cohn Cellars The Impostor

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  5/12/2018 - RichEB1 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This wine is drinking at peak with beautiful and fairly expressive notes of lavender and cinnamon on the nose. Fully integrated on the palate with blackberries, blue fruits, and baking spices. Medium plus plus bodied and just enough acidity to keep everything in check. I'm generally a fan of most Jeff Cohn wines and am always impressed with how well they age (have had some single zins drink well at literally 15 years!). This blend is a killer value (especially at the auction price I snagged it for), and while it's not going to improve, it should hold for at least a few more years.

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  5/19/2015 - bjamesclark wrote: 91 Points

  Completely different than the last time I tasted. this bottle shows medium/ medium+ aromas of wild berries; particularly wild raspberries and boysenberry with scents of bramble, camphor and campfire smoke that blend with notes vanilla, violets, cinnamon and cedar.
  On the palate medium medium+ bodied. With grippy medium/medium+ tannins, and medium plus acidity. Jammy flavors of tart berries; boysenberries, marion berry, wild raspberry and blackberry. Cedar, herbs, cinnamon stick, camphor, smoke, peppercorn and meat also present. the finish lingers with medium-plus intensity, letting the slightly gritty tannins play against the acidity with lingering boysenberry and smoke flavors.
  
  Overall drinking well, still has the stuffing to age longer...

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  3/22/2013 - bjamesclark wrote: 91 Points

  Dark red wine with purple plum hues. Thick legs that fall show slowly show off the high viscosity of this wine that has bright reflections.
  Fruit packed with aromas of red raspberry, currant and cherry that also carry deep smoky tones. Secondary aromas include flowers, cinnamon disks, and wood.
  Dense and jammy on the palate with flavors of raspberry preserves, cherry, vanilla, toasted oak with hints of black licorice and lingering on cinnamon candy.The finish is long and lingers with good intensity.

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  2/12/2013 - ctjared Likes this wine:

  As expected.

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  12/7/2012 - docjavadude Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This was a really interesting wine. A sort of kitchen sink blend with grapes for several California appellations. Gorgeous, deep ruby color. Aromas were all over the place due to the variety of grapes -- spicy, smokey, tobacco. In the mouth it was rich, dark, brooding. Dark red fruit flavors -- black cherry, blackberry, plum skin -- with dark toast, peppercorns, cedar, and earthy campfire. This was a terrific bottle of wine and will look for it in retail.

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