2010 La Jota Merlot W.S. Keyes Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  10/7/2023 - Cow Town Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A few years since my last bottle. Time has mellowed it out a bit, but it still comes across as a monolithic cabernet wannabe. A little plum-ish in the finish, and showing a little age/color on the edges. Seemed about right for a 13 year old merlot. Good wine, just not great.

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  9/28/2019 - Cow Town wrote: 89 Points

  Add me to the list of people underwhelmed by this wine. Tight as a drum, and never really opened up (5+ hours). Hard to tell merlot, other than that it was a bit flat for a cab. Not bad, just not great.

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  6/22/2019 - AllRed wrote: 90 Points

  4th Saturday group uptown tasting (M&R's): Double blind. Notes of dark fruit, plum, pepper and spice. The palate follows the bouquet-loads of dark fruit with a ripe edge, as well as cooked raspberry. Guessed Napa cab sauv...I don't recall anyone guessing merlot.

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  8/21/2018 - msuwine wrote: 93 Points

  This savory and classy Merlot is more Old World than New at this point: maybe it's the vintage or the age or the bottle, but the flavor profile has tipped away from fruit and towards more earthy aspects. I enjoyed the 2012, 2013, and 2014 more (especially the 2014) - more fruit, more energy - but this is still a solid wine.
  
  Dark garnet in color, full in body, nose of boysenberry, leather, and crushed gravel. Tastes of blueberry, plum, mocha, baking spices, and cedar, with a brambly and lingering finish. 14.2% alcohol. Blend of 82% Merlot and 18% Cabernet Sauvignon. Decant at least an hour, since it gains depth with air. Better on second day, when it seemed far more open - more chocolate, more gravel, more fruit. I'd lean towards drinking now, but fans of more traditional Right Bank Bordeaux blends may want to wait longer.

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  10/12/2017 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 89 Points

  My first venture into a Keyes merlot. I am quite disappointed. At this pricepoint, this should be a powerful drop dead gorgeous merlot and while it's good, it's 'merely' good, not very good and certainly not great. Clean black and red fruit, smooth tannins but little power, finish or depth. No complexity. I note it is better with an hour or two of air, but that's not saying much. There's just no power, no pizazz here and at better than $140/bottle, I feel like I've been taken...and hard.

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