2022 Joshua Cooper Cabernet Sauvignon Balgownie Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 94 points

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  4/12/2024 - wongstonn Likes this wine: 94 Points

  On the PnP without food:
  The Joshua Cooper is medium garnet and smells like the first days of Autumn when the berries are left on the bushes and are drying out and their colour is fading. There are hints of liquorice and tar in the aroma. Vanilla too. No hallmark tobacco at this point.
  
  20 minutes in, sniff and first taste (again without food):
  The Joshua Cooper has evolved even more over the first 20 minutes. Blood, ink and leather on the nose. On the palate it has an acidic edge of black cherry surrounding a core a black fruit, mint and finally some emerging cigar. At this point it feels like all the elements are there, but they’ve not integrated enough. More time required?
  
  20 min. w. food. Does better with food. Feels more integrated.
  
  Wine put in fridge overnight. Next day, contrary to my own expectations, it found an entirely new level. It was utterly superb. It just needed time and some air. I enjoyed the freshness. It’s a silky black fruit cored wine with mint and Italian herbs held with lightness and poise. Wonderful cool climate cab sav. I swooned.

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