This wine hales from the cooler Carneros region, which straddles both Napa and Sonoma counties. It is darkest ruby in the glass with complex aromas of cherry, mocha, toasted oak, and red currant. While I enjoyed the wine's aromatics, I found it initially disappointing in the mouth. My first score was a middling 87. I returned to the open bottle several hours later, and found that it had undergone a pleasant transformation after exposure to O2. It has a lengthy cedar-infused finish, and the tannic backbone to age at least 5 years. At around $29/bottle, the wine has a good QPR.
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Popped and poured with appetizers (after sending back the wrong bottle). Tasting notes are an overall rating -- restaurant was too dark/too busy to focus on my tasting and they seemed to have some serious service issues that nite (wrong wine brought to the table, the mussels were not steamed enough and many didn't open or barely opened, etc.)
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9/29/2018 - Piacenve Does not like this wine:
Lite no body
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4/8/2018 - Dagalaifus Likes this wine: 90 Points
This wine hales from the cooler Carneros region, which straddles both Napa and Sonoma counties. It is darkest ruby in the glass with complex aromas of cherry, mocha, toasted oak, and red currant. While I enjoyed the wine's aromatics, I found it initially disappointing in the mouth. My first score was a middling 87. I returned to the open bottle several hours later, and found that it had undergone a pleasant transformation after exposure to O2. It has a lengthy cedar-infused finish, and the tannic backbone to age at least 5 years. At around $29/bottle, the wine has a good QPR.
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6/24/2017 - garetjax_kison wrote: 88 Points
Popped and poured with appetizers (after sending back the wrong bottle). Tasting notes are an overall rating -- restaurant was too dark/too busy to focus on my tasting and they seemed to have some serious service issues that nite (wrong wine brought to the table, the mussels were not steamed enough and many didn't open or barely opened, etc.)
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