2017 Sloan Asterisk

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 94.7 points

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  5/3/2022 - wineholder Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Had this wine before and it was good.
  Decanted it for several hours and it was great!

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  3/2/2022 - kostaslonis wrote:

  Nicliani Portfolio tasting (Beef bar): The wine shows high intensity in the nose, very earthy, spicy, red fruit, a few olive paste notes, leafy, oaky layers, a touch balsamic. In the palate, the wine shows full body but not overpowering, some alcohol heat, earthy again, caramel, nutty, almond, dried red fruit, elegant for a such a wine, tight tannins, long finish

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  12/12/2021 - carlop1 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  2 hr decant of this delicious Cabernet Sauvignon/ Merlot beauty. 2017 may have been a difficult CA vintage but not with Sloan’s Asterisk. It was lush & smooth with each pour maintaining a complete joy front to finish.

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  8/10/2021 - JJB007 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  hard to believe this is a 54% merlot red blend, very smooth, soft yet rich tannins

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  4/24/2021 - OG-Wino Likes this wine: 93 Points

  So this may not be the best vintage yet, but tasted after a 2018 Brand Proprietary Blend (which, I realize, is a CF-first blend vs. this Cab-first blend) which I found disappointing, this really hit the spot with straight-down-the-middle-of-the-fairway blend of red & black (but not much blue) fruit, a little cedar/spice, and a little cocoa. I saw in some other notes that people though it was a little light weight, but I found it fully mouth-coating yet with good acid to keep it from being even the slightest bit flabby. One of my two favorite "seconds" (the other being M. Etain).
  
  All that said, I should add that there is a little bit of green bell pepper on both nose and finish that I don't think of as typical for Asterisk and which (for me) slightly detracts from the wine.

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