2019 Kinsman Eades Cabernet Sauvignon La Voleuse Du Chagrin Geeslin Vineyard

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  4/27/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Nose: Immediate black currants that give way to a deep and dark purple flowers - imagine lavender with the floral aspect turned down a bit, while the herbaceous quality is turned up. Deep and aromatic earth that reach far down into some black minerals, just scratching the surface of some tar.
  
  Palate: Awesome black and dark red fruits. A tasty ripeness that gets properly suppressed by bitter minerals, black earthy soil, and a clean black graphite that lingers into the finish, providing a tasty savoriness that just hangs around. As it sits on the palate and finishes up, you're left with a gentle impression of a tree slowly shedding its bark. With some time, a gentle but firmly spiced oak comes through, with dark cocoa too (and I mean 75%+). The savoriness also takes a step back with some time, letting the gently ripe fruits to come out to perform, as well as some nice freshness for a guest appearance.
  
  Thoughts: A flavorful, savory, brooding beast that knows how to grow and flower - I love it. I love the strong savory aspects of this, and with some time, this shows it can be disciplined and tasteful about how it wants to show itself with awesome balance. This and another Kinsman bottling was overshadowed by a different wine in a previous tasting, so I had to re-taste this to give it the proper treatment it deserves.
  
  Treatment: Juice stayed ~58°-64° throughout the entire tasting of ~7 hours. Pulled corked, poured a glass, recorked right after (rinse and repeat). Slow-ox'd, no decanter used. Might wanna serve at cellar temp for an added freshness effect.

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  4/14/2024 - MN Wine Junkie Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Champers and Napa Cabs Blind - Fun Times! (Chateau Simms): I believe this wine had about a 2 hour Slo-O.
  
  This was in a blind line up of some very prestigious 2019 Napa reds (and one 2016 thrown in), specifically:
  
  2019 MacDonald
  2019 Kinsman Eades La Voleuse Du Chagrin
  2019 Kinsman Eades Anjea Sleeping Lady Vineyard
  2019 Colgin Tychson Hill
  2019 Realm Absurd
  2019 Scarecrow
  2019 Harlan
  2019 Myriad Elysian
  2019 La Pelle Res
  2019 Magnificent 7
  2019 Cliff Lede Songbook
  2016 Colgin Tychson Hill
  
  2019 Kinsman Eades La Voleuse Du Chagrin - The wine showed lots of potential. This wine was tight, but showed great structure. I thought this was the Scarecrow, with dark fruit but brooding tannins. What the wine lacked on the palate (which wasn't much) it made up for on the nose. Very nice perfumed aromatics! No doubt this will be a beauty in another 5 years! I was wrong about it being Scarecrow, but not surprised when it was revealed. 95+ to 96 today, possible perfection down the road.

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  4/14/2024 - bsumoba Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Young and very good. Could probably use more air to show better. I largely agree with other TNs.

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  4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine:

  Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Deep, big and ripe blueberries, nice dry earth and a bit of spiced tree bark.
  
  Palate: Dark but light red fruit profile, nicely gripped and a bit tight but not too much in a bad way. Firm and clean spiced oak.
  
  This is one of those where you just know it would be stellar with some air time. This didn't get the air it might have needed.

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  4/4/2024 - RMundell Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Wow. What an amazing young wine. No decant and was drinking great. Really impressive.

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