2012 Fait-Main Cabernet Sauvignon Sleeping Lady Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  12/26/2019 - Siebs Cellar Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Outstanding in texture, fruit and body. An excellent balance of the three.

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  4/6/2018 - Siebs Cellar wrote: 92 Points

  Needed significant aerating. The tannins rounded and the fruit was subtle. Hints of minerality. Finish was moderately long. More age should really bring out the best in this wine.

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  3/24/2018 - msuwine wrote: flawed

  This plummy and round Cabernet is tasting a bit past its prime, but there's a risk that I got a badly stored bottle at auction. Given this uncertainty, I won't score the wine, but here are my impressions, for what they're worth (which may be nothing):
  
  Dark red in color, full in body, nose of crushed blueberry, plum, and graphite. Tastes of ripe boysenberry, licorice, dark chocolate, prunes, and vanilla, with a lingering yet dry finish. 14.1% alcohol. The fruit has outrun the structure here, which gives the wine a juicier quality than I typically expect from Benoit (whose wines are anything but austere). This blew off some of the sugar after an hour of air. Drink now.
  
  This doesn't have the core that I find the best 2012's have at this point. Instead, it tastes a bit baked, unfocused, and dry. If this bottle was fine, it could suggest that the Sleeping Lady is an early-term drinker - something I doubt, since the Fait-Main's from this vineyard in 2013 and 2014 seemed to have all of the stuffing to go the distance. The more likely possibility is that this was a bottle that saw a little too much sunshine or heat, which is why I've declined from rating.

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