2014 The Napa Valley Reserve White Wine

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93 points

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  3/19/2017 - aegerter Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Open opening it felt too acidic and I was a bit underwhelmed and put it in the fridge. The following day I retested with low expectations which where far exceeded. It opened up beautifully and displays a wonderful roundness and balance. The bouquet offers up elderberry and apricot, while the palate delivers nicely concentrated experience of white currant, melon and wet stone in perfect harmony.

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  11/19/2016 - Collector1855 wrote: 91 Points

  Napa Valley Master Class with Robert Parker; 11/10/2016-11/20/2016 (Napa Valley): Dinner at Harlan estate. Fruity nose with lemon, minerals and a touch of grass. Well balanced palate. Medium complexity.

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  8/11/2016 - bacchuszuo Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Buttery and sesame oak wrapped around waves of grilled pineapple and cooked mango, very tropical but structured, balanced with acidity. Not yet super-defined but very pleasurable to drink. Winner against Silex 2012 and Blanc de Lynch Badges 2014.

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  3/8/2016 - Phitz Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This is a nice bottle of Sauvignon Blanc. Different lots are fermented in concrete eggs, stainless, and possibly (?) barrique. They're blended together. This is a note for the 2014 wine, consumed in March of 2016. The wine, when first released, has a creamy, sweet softness that seems to overlay the sauv blanc characteristics. This wine, at this age, is a high-end Napa Sauv Blanc/etc. It lacks the tartness/gooseberriness of some of the Napa Sauvignon Blancs and certainly the NZ Sauvignon Blancs. I don't think that Sauvignon Blanc can make a wine much over the low 90's, so this is a good and perhaps great wine. (RMP rated one 97 point Sancerre, 3 96's, a dozen 95's, a few dozen 94's and then it's 93 on down.)

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