2012 Bacio Divino Cabernet Sauvignon Janzen Cloudy's Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (32) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  11/24/2023 - Franken Berry Likes this wine: 96 Points

  I was fortunate enough to snag a magnum from the winery a few years back. I gave this 3 hours of air - quick decant, then back into the bottle, left open.
  The '12s have aged gracefully in my experience, and continue to be one of my favorite vintages to drink, on the pure pleasure scale. This wine is still youthful, rich, full fruited, and shows a terrific sense of depth and balance. Aromas of blueberry pie with rich black fruits on the palate - cassis, blackberry and a hint of plum intermixed with cocoa, anise, tapenade. lengthy mineral and saline driven finish. Smooth tannins, as others have noted. There is nothing out of place, here.
  
  I am sure that this has a lot of life left, however, for my palate it is at its peak, and I am happy to have served this over the thanksgiving meal

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  10/1/2023 - gjv115 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Pnp. Lots of sediment. It's elegant. Cherry vanilla cola. Nice mouthfeel. It's improving with air but it's difficult for me to see how it improves with age. After 4 hours in a decanter it started sing. Chocolate cherry, coffee. Really good.

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  5/26/2023 - Badmonkey wrote: 96 Points

  Purple fruit - black currants, blackberry, and a little dark cherry and blueberry. Smooth mid-palate with a nice purity and solid depth/concentration. Nice rich flavors of cassis, some spice/licorice, cocoa, and a little graphite component. Fairly long finish. Popped/poured but drank out of a decanter for a couple hours. Not much improvement with time but at a nice drinking point. Drank next to a 2020 Quivet Kenefick Ranch cab and I thought it was a toss-up - both were great. A nice vintage of this wine - no surprise of the 96 rating from WA. 100% cab.

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  5/24/2023 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Oh hell......had to open another bottle after we blew through HMC's '16 Selah. Right from the pnp, this one is ready. It's resolved, integrated, balanced and ready. Black fruited, no prune or raisin, but you get the feeling that 5 more years will lead to that. It is an impeccable Cloudy's. Wish I had more of it as it is easily the WOTN, tonight.

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  11/21/2021 - Schiffy Likes this wine: 95 Points

  As an update to my 2019 tasting note…this cab has become more concentrated, fruit forward with intense inky, purple, blackberry fruit. The tannins have become silky smooth, layered and delivers a wonderful full mouthfeel. This is really a great wine, particularly for the price.

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