2014 Flora Springs Trilogy

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  2/15/2023 - mflesh wrote:

  86% Cab Sauv, 8% Malbec and 6% Petit Verdot. This wine has a nose of black cherry and blackberry with a slight iodine, soy sauce and tobacco leaf profile. The palate is red fruited for the most part. Black cherry, underripe blackberry, pipe tobacco, black tea, and dried herbs. Finishes still with quite a bit of punchy youthful oak tannin. This wine was not decanted, but likely should have been. I'd recommend a decant for sure as I kind of wonder what I was missing on the back end of this wine as I know I was missing out on something for sure. Not able to rate this wine right now, but I can certainly tell you that this does not have the darker black profile that is common for St Helena fruit. This winery is geographically located in Southern St Helena but I am embarrassed to not know where their "Napa Valley Vineyard" is located. Tastes like Oak Knoll or maybe even Southern Rutherford fruit to me. Quite delicious: never been disappointed by Flora Springs wines!

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  9/12/2022 - Side Hustle Wino wrote: 93 Points

  Really beautiful wine with great fruit, tobacco, minerality.

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  1/14/2022 - gteran76 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Opened it 4 hours before dinner. The wine is dark, bold, firm tannins, a well balanced Napa Cabernet. One of the best QPR out there.

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  11/20/2021 - gteran76 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  We like this wine, second bottle we have in a magnum format. This time around it was beaten badly by a magnum of 2016 Sheridan L'Orage.
  
  The wine is medium plus, but too much into the sweet side, a little over the top oak, basically a crow pleaser (at least this bottle).
  
  I have 2 more and I'm expecting a better experience like the first one we had a few months ago.

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  5/26/2021 - gteran76 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  I had it upright at 70F for above 3 weeks, in the morning I placed it upright inside the cellar at 55F, opened for 30 min inside the cellar, double decanted for 10 min and drove to the restaurant to consume in a 3 hours span...
  
  The wine is big and bold while kipping a good harmony between fruit, tannin and oak. Plenty of dark notes with a sensational finish. I will give it a solid 93 points but considering the price paid for this magnum I'm giving out a bonus point.
  
  I don't see any need to drink now, I have 3 more bottles which I will be drinking at a peace of one per year or so...

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