2015 Newton Cabernet Sauvignon Single Vineyard Yountville

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  10/30/2022 - Wwinowillie Likes this wine:

  98 points by decanter. Newton's Yountvilles are usually more approachable than their mountain fruit and the '14 Yountville is one of the best bottles I have ever had. '15 was low yield due to a cool and wet spring followed by the continuation of the drought into a hot and dry summer.
  Decanted for an hour and a half before first glass.
  
  Nose: Licorice, aged tobacco, and cocoa. The fruit has evolved from cherry earlier in decanting to blueberry/darker fruits, but there is still a little bit of stewed strawberry. Sage, sandalwood, and aged leather. Wet soil and graphite also contribute an earthy quality. There is an underlying savory note, and the nose is overall remarkably balanced and diverse. Beautiful nose that is an exciting introduction for what is about to follow.
  
  Finally the good part, light-medium mouthfeel that gives way to dark flavors like tobacco, cacao, and black tea that linger for a long time in the finish. Definitely bitter, and noticeably less tannin than I remember from a year ago.
  Definitely develops more balance but it takes a lot of time, currently at 2.5 hours after opening. At this point it is drinking fantastic, the bitterness has subsided a bit and the smoky dark finish isn't overwhelming. It begins to show the balance from the nose, blue and red fruits start to emerge to offset some of the bitterness.

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  11/15/2021 - GWEdwards wrote:

  @WWINOWILLIE nailed it

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  11/4/2021 - Wwinowillie wrote:

  Revisiting another bottle a year later.
  
  Nose: surprisingly condensed mixed berries, graphite, and a little bit of orange rind. A beautiful fresh cedar, cigar smoke, and fresh leather round out for a sweet pungent and powerful perfume.
  
  Deep dark fruit is balanced by a plush, creamy texture. There is good dryness and tannin as the finish brings out cigar smoke and black tea bitterness. A dark flavored, dry, smoky, and heavy wine. My tongue and mouth feel like I just smoked a cigar, and that dryness and kind of burn extends down to the stomach. New leather and (I mean this in the absolute best way possible and I have never said this positively about a wine before but in this case it applies): grape cough syrup.
  
  It’s a really really heavy and dark wine, dry but not necessarily chewy. This almost reminds me of a petit Verdot. Very good and feels like it can hang with the Veeder and Spring Mountain offerings in terms of durability and potential in the future.

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  12/20/2020 - Wwinowillie Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Nose: caramel, baking spices, berry mix: black blue red, sweet black licorice, mint leaf, menthol, sage, oak, floral, Tabacco residue
  There is a lot here and it’s all good.
  
  Wonderful full body coats the mouth and drys it out really nicely afterwards, burn kind of comes from the wood and tannin in the finish, definitely bitter layers in the back. Leather and tobacco stick out a lot, dusty tannins, good fruit. A little bit of everything you could possibly want.
  
  Really good wine. Probably just hitting it’s drinking window, great now and will continue to improve. Balance, structure, tannin, the rating could easily go up I have a few bottles and will get more.

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  7/2/2018 - rossi.wine wrote: 94 Points

  On the nose dark fruit, cool cassis, smoky, spicy, notes of tobacco and cedar. Lots of depth on the palate, impressively structured, velvety tannins, good acidity, lots of layered fruit. Very elegant and composed, excellent length to the finish. 93-94+

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