2007 Kapcsándy Family Winery Estate Cuvée State Lane Vineyard

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  4/23/2024 - prasm Likes this wine: 93 Points

  PnP 375 - broken cork, bottom 1/3 pushed into bottle. Appearance: Some cork residue, otherwise clear, deep ruby nearly all the way to the edge with no bricking. Nose: Clean, with developing aromas of cream and dark fruit - blackberry, black raspberry and plum with saddle leather, eucalyptus, and violets - seductive. Palate: Dry, medium acid, medium+ tannin is soft and plush, medium+ body, medium+ intensity, 14.1% abv with developing flavors of blackberry, spice, and tobacco with a long finish.
  
  Balance: Excellent
  Length: Excellent-Outstanding
  Intensity: Excellent
  Length: Outstanding
  
  An excellent-outstanding wine still remarkably youthful at 17 years from a 375. Powerful, yet lean at 14.1% abv, this pretty much has it all. Likely near peak, but this has the stuffing to last 3-5 years yet. Worth every penny of the $50 paid for it back in 2010.

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  4/7/2023 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 93 Points

  First bottle of this '07......decanted for 60 minutes before dinner and enjoyed for another hour after. Tons of sediment in the bottle. Filter carefully if you can. I used a finer. Initially bright red cherry fruit with a bit of tartness to it. Evolved over the 2nd hour to darker, plummy fruit. Carol said it turned more Bdx-ish on the nose and the palate. I can't argue her point. Mushroom, graphite elements with well integrated tannins and laid back acidity. I thought at one point it would get to a 94, but it never quite made it. A nice bottle, but probably coming down from its peak a tad. While I like older Napa reds, I don't know that I'd hold this one much longer.

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  2/10/2023 - AllRed wrote: 94 Points

  Friday Night Brown Bagger (R&R): Double blind. Opens with rubber and dark aromas which give way to something a little bit meaty, and more red fruit than black. To put it plainly, this is just a really easy wine to like. It's got great fruit, it's balanced, and you just want to keep sipping it. Long finish. Beautiful. Easily the wine of the flight. Drinking well now, but with plenty of life left at a very high level. 94+ pts. (R&R)

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  1/8/2023 - carlsport Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Still very good, but feel like it is starting to head south.

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  11/12/2022 - ChrisR Likes this wine:

  This occupies a peculiar ecological niche. It's not rich or powerful enough to appeal to the people who want to get blown away by their wine, but it's too juicy fruity to appeal to the Bordeaux drinkers. It's quite lovely in its own way, raspberry and cassis, juicy, but with dry tannins on the finish. Less tannic than my previous bottle, happily.

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