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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.8 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 23 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Shay.Aldriedge on 4/13/2024 & rated 93 points: Always fun to celebrate a birthday with a birth year bottle! I opened a bottle of this a few months back and couldn’t believe how good it was.
Coming from the famed Caldwell vineyard, this has such a bright eucalyptus note! Deep red/black in the glass with no bricking! Dusty fig, sweet espresso, dirty red and black berry fruit. Even after following from bottle over 3-4hrs, this has a natural cool/minty vibe alongside dark cocoa and sweet black cassis. So much youth and tannin! I should have spaced my two bottles out…these are still cruising! (139 views) | | | Tasted by Herb K on 12/7/2017: Delicious. Still offering up fruit with soft tannins. Blackberries. (2238 views) | | | Tasted by docjer on 7/18/2017 & rated 90 points: GREAT AROMA, CLARITY, AND FINISH (2401 views) | | | Tasted by rm97 on 6/4/2017 & rated 91 points: Drinking well. Nuanced and enjoyable (2459 views) | | | Tasted by wynlvr on 11/8/2014 & rated 92 points: Great for an American Bordeaux blend (4353 views) | | | Tasted by Gabe on 9/22/2014 & rated 90 points: Enjoyed this, unsure of the storage if the bottle so was pleasantly surprised. Nose of plums and cherries with some earthy mushrooms. Well rounded mouthfeel although a bit gritty at times. Finish was slightly short but enjoyable. I'd concur that it's time to drink them. (4600 views) | | | Tasted by docjer on 7/5/2014 & rated 84 points: amberized color, fair bouquet and legs. mature fruit taste. holding up well for age (3141 views) | | | Tasted by AEROSMITH on 2/3/2013 & rated 92 points: still drinking delicately.decanted for 45 minutes which helped it .cheery and oak still dominate.alas my last bottle.would not wait to much longer. (4648 views) | | | Tasted by fdub on 1/17/2013 & rated 90 points: Pop and pour at the Napa Men's Lunch Club. Brought by Bob Egelhoff. The nose is pure mature Bordeaux. Leather, tilled earth, mushroom and a slight hint of cherries. The nose far outshines the palate which is past its best. A bit thin and fading out and the acidity is starting to take over. (3961 views) | | | Tasted by fdub on 8/26/2012 & rated 91 points: Tasted at the Vintner's Club in SF. Brought to the tasting by Caldwell's current wine maker. Made by Randy Dunn and it shows. Deep rich dark color with bricking at the edge. The nose is mint, mushroom, earth, and french cheese. Still big grippy tannic structure and fruit in the mouth. Short finish but still holding not as great as the last bottle I have. 91+ (3205 views) | | | Tasted by Richard123 on 7/17/2012 & rated 93 points: A bit tight on opening, but really stunning after decanting. Perfectly complemented a steak. As others have found, the cork was a problem; it completely crumbled with the corkscrew and a filter needed to avoid small cork particles in the wine. The wine itself was fine, however. (3583 views) | | | Tasted by dgaiser on 10/29/2011 & rated 90 points: 12.5% abv. Nose dominated by secondary character with mint, chocolate, eucalyptus, cinnamon, tobacco, cherry pie, baked plum, blackberry jam. Medium plus body with sweet mature fruit on the attack with a long finish with sweet, well-resolved tannins and decent acidity. Quite tasty on day two as well. (4156 views) | | | Tasted by indiscriminate palate on 7/10/2011: Rich, ripe, thick; black cherry, cedar, mint; not at all old, but surprisingly hot on the finish with the rich attack of fruit quickly yielding to an astringent finish. Cork and color seemed fine, but perhaps a bad bottle. (2460 views) | | | Tasted by Krugsters on 8/31/2010: Sadly the victim of cork failure. The acidity totally overwhelmed the fruit, undrinkable. (2725 views) | | | Tasted by magyarsvensk on 8/23/2010 & rated 90 points: Cork was dry as a bone, but no obvious oxidation. Light tree bark, leaves, dust, ripe berries. Good attack, with a resonant finish. (2652 views) | | | Tasted by salcorn on 4/18/2010 & rated 93 points: At 22 years of age, this wine is still tight, with a solid backbone of tanins supporting Bordeaux-like fruit. I normally don't decant wines unless there is a sediment issue, but this wine definitely needs an hour or two of air to show at its best. (2776 views) | | | Tasted by Krugsters on 4/16/2010 & rated 95 points: A stunning beauty of a wine. This is how Napa wine should be made. Cork broke, poured through a filtered spout then decanted and aerated for an hour due to a delay in serving. Strong notes of chocolate mint (think Andes candy) and roses. Some secondary notes of leather and cedar. It is mind boggling that this is a 22 year old bottle of wine. The fruit is so fresh and lively, no browning, no fading, everything is well integrated and refined. I cannot believe I paid $30 for this. Everyone's WOTN. (2755 views) | | | Tasted by fdub on 9/14/2009 & rated 94 points: This is the 3rd vintage from Pahlmeyer. This was a wine made by Randy Dunn and was significantly lower in alcohol than what you find in the marketplace today. 12.5%. The wine was decanted for approximately 30 minutes. The color is still dark purple and opaque very little signs of bricking at the edge. Remarkable. The nose is reminicent of a Bordeaux with one taster indicating stinky French cheese. However I found that the nose had developed characteristic of ripe cherries, cigar box, aged leather, and cedar. On the palate there was less body than the current offerings from Pahlmeyer. None of the mouthcoating almost syurpy like notes. Rather it was lush and full of plums, blackberries, with a lot of earthy tones. The finish was long at first however became more clipped after an hour or so. Overall what I found amazing about this wine was the fact it looked and acted more like a 5 or 6 year old rather than a 21 year old wine. This is a testament to Randy Dunn's ability to created ageable red wines in the Napa Valley. An awesome experience. (3079 views) | | | Tasted by Herb K on 9/11/2009 & rated 95 points: This wine had aged so gracefully and was so elegant, yet still had a beautiful perfume nose. All of the different grape varietals came through in the glass. I would be very happy drinking this wine as often as I could get it. A GREAT expression from Napa and such a different style than the big, bold cabs, although the more than 20-years of bottle age most certainly had something to do with that! (2916 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 1/24/2007 & rated 91 points: Jonathan Dinh's Crazy '88s Dinner (Twist Bistro, Campbell, California): Mushroom and sweet oak nose; tightish, young tasting, thick balsamic palate; medium-plus finish (3116 views) | | | Tasted by buckeye76 on 7/20/2003 & rated 90 points: ORANGE ON THE EDGE. LICORICE, CHERRIES, CHOCOLATE, TOBACCO, AND HERBAL SCENTS IN THE NOSE. DEEP FRUIT IN THE FLAVOR WITH LICORICE AND BLACKBERRIES. MEDIUM LENGTH FINISH. (524 views) |
| Pahlmeyer Producer website
Jayson Pahlmeyer, recently joined by his daughter Cleo Pahlmeyer, have been producing highly sought-after, seductive, hedonistic wines since 1986. Pahlmeyer's flagship wine is the Proprietary Red, a Napa Valley Bordeaux blend. Chardonnay, Merlot and Pinot Noir round out this stunning portfolio. These wines are produced from exceptional mountain vineyards in the Napa Valley and Sonoma Coast, including the Pahlmeyer family’s Waters Ranch (Atlas Peak AVA) and Wayfarer Farm (Fort Ross/Seaview AVA). These vineyards, coupled with winemakers Kale Anderson and Bibiana Gonzalez Rave's passion and talent, turn out wines with power and finesse.Red Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.Caldwell VineyardTwenty Mile BenchUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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