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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.1 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by LBeilke on 1/21/2024: Save for special occasion (711 views) | | | Tasted by galewskj on 1/1/2024 & rated 94 points: 2023 New Years Eve: See MN Wine Junkie for treatment. Like all Harlan wines, there is a voluptuous softness to this wine that washes over you as you drink it. Red fruit with very relaxed tannins, a dollop of acid, vanilla and spice. (848 views) | | | Tasted by robertgf on 1/1/2024 & rated 95 points: Totally agree with galewskj except I'd go a point higher. What surprised and impressed me was how such a relatively young red blend could feel so soft on the palate; yet not be just fruit juice. Everything seems in balance. Does such a wine get better, or just stay unchanged? Such a treat to experience. Thanks Jason (633 views) | | | Tasted by MN Wine Junkie on 12/31/2023 & rated 95 points: 2023 New Years Eve Celebration! (Kevin's House): PnP - I typically don't buy second wines, but this wine is certainly an exception. Unlike some other second wines (and especially second wines in Bordeaux), This wine does share the characteristics of its big brother, Promontory. Although the wine is not cheap, it does compare favorably with similar priced wines.
This wine, like Promontory, shows plush fruit (red, black and blue) with ultra fine tannins, coupled with some cocoa dust, some mellow earthy notes, some sweet tobacco and a hint of ash and oak. This was my WOTN amongst some pretty darn good wines! 95+ and would have benefitted with an hour decant. Absolutely delicious! (870 views) | | | Tasted by rocknroller on 12/31/2023 & rated 91 points: New Years Eve (Rocknroller's (Kevin & Vicki's Place)): Very dark red/purple color. PNP, drank a glass over 90 minutes. Dark fruits, quite herbaceous, lots of oak, firmly tannic byt with a velvety texture. I seem to be the outlyer here, but the herbaceous aspect didn;t work for me. (1055 views) | | | Tasted by Cablover1982 on 7/14/2023 & rated 97 points: Brilliant wine. 4 hr decant and beyond. Dense mineral core that grabs your attention and keeps pulling you in for more sips. Controlled dark fruit at first that slowly transitioned to incredible dark cherry jam, dark berries, crushed rocks, slate, graphite, espresso, plowed soil and wild flowers. Fine acidity so balanced, fresh and pretty tannins leading to a long finish. (1177 views) | | | Tasted by davidandrose on 9/4/2022 & rated 95 points: First of the 15's we're sampling and it's solid. Bit more than 2.5 hr decant as I own my comments, followed in Sommelier stems as they added a soft sweetness and finesse compared to std stems.
Blue and Blackberry on the nose along w cedar and musk/forest floor. Extremely well-balanced, this sits beautifully on the palate with cherry, hints of cola, and the soft seeetness mentioned. None of the typically heavily toasted oak going on here, their European barrel approach is evident and appreciated.
Mrs Davidandrose awarded this 95, and she's often 1-2pts below my rating. Tonite we concur. Great wine reaffirms my purchase of the current offer. (1640 views) | | | Tasted by jonfrutkin on 2/4/2022 & rated 96 points: Outstanding and ready to drink now. Decant for 90 mins and drink over two hours. Great length and great journey. (2157 views) | | | Tasted by VINLVR on 11/30/2021: Delivered to PB (2235 views) | | | Tasted by msuwine on 9/24/2021 & rated 96 points: This ripe and layered Cabernet needs another few years to unfold, but it is delicious right now (in an explosive and forward way - not always what you associate with the Harlan family, but this works). This had more depth and character than a 2015 Realm Crane tonight, so - second wine or not - this is the real deal.
Dark red in color and full in body, the wine offers heady aromas of blackberry, rosemary, mocha, graphite, and mulberry. The flavors are generous and integrated, with notes of black cherry, dark chocolate, baking spices, and anise, with a silky and lingering finish. 14.8% alcohol. Promontory unplugged, or something. What a wine. (2601 views) |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Penultimate: A New Chapter at Promontory (Sep 2020) (9/1/2020)
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| Promontory Producer website
The most recent winegrowing endeavor of the Harlan family—a venture undertaken by the second generation—Promontory is born of a wild territory hidden within the western borderlands of Oakville. From the outset, the quest has been to faithfully reveal the character of this land through the mood of the individual growing season. Each successive vintage has revealed itself with increasing transparency, yet the essence of Promontory remains unaltered: a mineral-driven, weightlessly structured, and linear translation of the place’s intrinsic, untamed splendor.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.USAAmerican 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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