2014 Keplinger Caldera

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  4/14/2024 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I'm really digging the flinty gun oil notes upon PNP. Caldera with some age and really be a beautiful wine. Not the heights of 2010 but not far behind.
  
  Drink or hold

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  3/17/2024 - jkscully Likes this wine:

  69% Mourvèdre/27% Grenach/4% Counoise. This had solid acid and strong tannins still, so I think it would have been better with age (though everything was well-balanced). Nevertheless, it was drinking well after about 2 hours of air. This tastes like Mouvedre, with leather, olives, smoke, tobacco, roasted meat, iron, and provencal herbs. Faint hints of raspberry and blackberry in the background, but the fruit takes a back seat here. I don’t think that it has the flash of some of the more notable regions from California, but it was clearly a good wine and a welcome old-world style. If this is what Sierrea Foothills can do, then I’m impressed. It really grew on me and, in the end, I wish I had some more bottles to experiment with (especially extended ageing). Excellent match with roasted duck with olives from my Provencal cookbook. The olives and the duck were just right with the savory characters of the wine.

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  2/3/2023 - mwneil Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Good but not great, full body, decent tannin that disapated as we drank, did not finish last sip and did not want more at the end of the bottle, drank with magret of duck with duck confit, basmati rice, lots of fruit, not sure it will improve from here, my only bottle.

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  8/24/2022 - BerkeleyBoy Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Very enjoyable. It still has some tanins left, but it holds the fruit and complements the wine. It was a PnP with an hour slow decant and we enjoyed it with a grilled rib eye. Thanks to DJ for his long, fulfilled promise.

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  2/26/2022 - BerkeleyBoy wrote: flawed

  This has been in my cellar for 5 years and it was corked.

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