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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.3 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 35 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by ajrez on 3/21/2024 & rated 90 points: Not the best expression of LPV but ok as a daily drinker. (663 views) | | | Tasted by jaxpaj on 11/6/2023 & rated 96 points: Big improvement over the last year. (1731 views) | | | Tasted by #1Winelover on 6/19/2023 & rated 96 points: This has come together nicely. It tasted a little dis-jointed in the past but no longer. Splash decant, back in the bottle for 3 hours and that's what it needed. No ripeness here, just a great bottle of wine! (2514 views) | | | Tasted by Gnieboer on 5/21/2023 & rated 94 points: Drank over 3 days. While very intense and full bodied, I didn’t get the aromatics I expected… it didn’t really open up. Maybe just a dumb phase. Otherwise it is still quite young, in its early drinking window but the tannins need another maybe 2 years to reach peak? Hard to tell. (1948 views) | | | Tasted by salil on 2/18/2023 & rated 94 points: Really liked this and found myself enjoying it more and more through the evening. Not a style I enjoyed a lot several years ago but palates change and I find myself much more appreciative of these wines. Lots of rich fruit with more low-toned earthy and tobacco notes adding depth, and the alcohol's high but in balance throughout. Decanting helps a lot - the oak's more apparent initially but plays a background role with air, and I find myself enjoying the second glass an hour later a lot more because of this. Leftovers hold up really well and a couple of glasses the next day are really fantastic. (2510 views) | | | Tasted by Gr8penut on 1/2/2023 & rated 90 points: Very underwhelmed as I expected much more from this wine... (2212 views) | | | Tasted by Mark1npt on 11/17/2022 & rated 94 points: Enjoyed tableside with dinner at Coopershawk with Jaime/Carol. Suffered a bit from not near enough air time. It has very dark color and comes across as maybe more 'rustic' than some other LPVs. Dark, brooding fruit, some menthol or pine needle on the nose, not the sweetness/cassis of the Carter LPV from earlier today. Two contrasting LPV wines for sure, but both pretty darn good. Will def decant this one a good bit on my next/last bottle. There is a small glass left under cork in the cellar to try tomorrow to see if it evolves further overnight. (3225 views) | | | Tasted by Justinwine on 10/24/2022 & rated 91 points: Very young. I like it and will like it more in 3-5 years. (2105 views) | | | Tasted by blarmston on 10/17/2022 & rated 95 points: This is a solid wine, especially for the price point.
Nice to see Las P at less than 2 bills a bottle.
Decanted for 4 hours while vegging on the couch watching highlights of Gang Green stomping all over the Pack at Lambeau, and the Jills vs Chiefs.
There is no rush on opening bottles of this as she will cruise for years in the cellar.
94-95 now with a bit of upside.
Well done Mike Smith, well done... (2748 views) | | | Tasted by FlyPig on 10/10/2022 & rated 94 points: Hold 2-3 (1891 views) | | | Tasted by Badmonkey on 9/30/2022 & rated 95 points: Came across some bottles that I’m thinking about buying but wanted to see where this vintage is at first. Popped/poured but drank out of a decanter over a couple hours but it came across fairly closed/not overly expressive. Put half of the bottle away for day two and it improved quite a bit as it opened-up more. Dark ruby fruit - currants, blackberry, and dark cherry. Smooth mid-palate with solid depth/concentration - it picked-up some weight on day two. Nice vibrant flavors of some spice/licorice, cassis, and a mineral/graphite component. Fairly long finish. Like most 2018 cabs that I’ve had over the past year, I believe this wine needs another year or two to develop further. However, a promising future in light of how it showed on day two. A nice vintage of this wine - no surprise of the 97+ rating from Dunnuck which appears plausible with some more time. 95 on day two. 100% cab. (2695 views) | | | Tasted by Decanting Queen on 8/31/2022: Inspired by Mark and HMC I did nearly the same thing and opened at the end of the night pnp. Too much good wine earlier to give this a fair comparison and still, not surprisingly, too young for my taste. But has become much more balanced and integrated since my last tasting and it is clear that this will be good with a few more years on it (or maybe a decent decant???) (3345 views) | | | Tasted by Mark1npt on 8/28/2022 & rated 96 points: I hate to do this, but sometimes HMC and I go at it so heavy and so long over a night during and after dinner, that I just have to open another bottle! He was asking for a coravin pour of 'something', so...
After dinner, enjoyed by all 4 of us......coravined a small glass for 2 of us, then just gave in and opened the bottle, which we all four finished within an hour of opening. Take note: this was SUPERB......for the first 30-40 minutes, then started to change to a very different albeit, still very good, wine.
Coravin/pnp into our glasses and boom! Big blueberry out the wazoo on the nose and beautiful, sweet, blueberry fruit on the palate. Very balanced as far as fruit, tannins and acidity. None of us could believe this was an '18 and that it could perform so extraordinary, right from the pnp, with absolutely zero preparation, tonight. 96-97 right from the start, however......
30-45 min in and some herbal qualities emerge along with a hint or two of pyrazine (green pepper) and HMC and I are not fans of pyrazine, however it worked with the herbal component, but the blueberry (which we both love) backed off quite a bit so a 93-94 at that moment in time......and then, poof! It was gone........ (3657 views) | | | Tasted by FlyPig on 10/30/2021: Hold 3+ (2490 views) | | | Tasted by Decanting Queen on 5/2/2021 & rated 94 points: I coravined a small decanter of this wine in the morning and then let it sit in the cellar all day (7+ hrs?). Beautiful aromas on opening, but I did not taste at that point.
This was not surprisingly drinking very young and a bit tight even after the long decant, but nonetheless very enjoyable. Dark fruits, blueberry juice poking through, lots of mineral, chalk, graphite. I get the earth but not so much the funk that others have mentioned. Maybe my lingering cold is masking it, or maybe I associate funk with really bretty French wines. Or a Rocks Syrah—this did not have any of that type of funk. This seemed well integrated, lots of nice acid (love acid), did not notice the alcohol, and tight but fine tannins.
The score is for now. I don’t regret opening and I will enjoy the other half of my bottle one day soon, but for optimal enjoyment, I would keep holding at least another year. (5498 views) | | | Tasted by Cristal2000 on 2/27/2021 & rated 94 points: 2018 LPV Blind Tasting: VV, Carter, Fait Main, Quivet and B Cellars (Lang's): 2018 LPV blind tasting. Wines: Vice Versa, Carter La Verdad, Quivet, Fait Main and B Cellars. Six total tasters. All wines decanted 3+ hours.
The Quivet came in 4th. It was very interesting to have two Mike Smith wines from the same vintage and vineyard in the tasting, yet be so dramatically different. I picked out the Verdad blind fairly easily, but this was harder. While it had some of the richness associated with his style, it also had the most char and funk on the nose. The acidity was a bit higher and the tannin a little rougher. Didn't match the silky texture of the Carter, nor the purity. Overall it was a good wine, but overshadowed in this tasting. I had it third. (5057 views) | | | Tasted by alsatl on 2/6/2021 & rated 95 points: This wine was a tale of two nights. We opened this last night and did not decant. My first impression was one of flavorful funk, reminiscent of a Paso Robles cabernet or a Mike Smith syrah (wife agreed). I actually double-checked the label on the bottle. Aside from the funk, my description aligns with others: dark berry fruits, blueberry liqueur, minerality, etc. Definitely approachable now, and the finish was notably long. I followed up tonight with one remaining glass with my bone-in filet dinner, and it was noticeably better. The funk was mostly gone, and the flavor profile was refined all around. The finish shortened a bit, but this is a winner with some longevity remaining. I see definite upside with another 1-2+ years in bottle. (3588 views) | | | Tasted by GQG on 11/24/2020 & rated 94 points: It's time to conclude the bottle shock test after letting this bottle sit a month in storage. Conclusion: well, this test, while interesting, didn't provide proof either way whether bottle shock is real or not. However, this bottle definitely outperformed last month's bottle, so there's a data point for y'all.
What I noticed the most now was that the perceived hollow mid-palate and lower acidity from last month's bottle have both really improved (5 hour decant both times) though it doesn't reach the high bar set by the 2016 LPV. The nose funk is still there, and if I had been tasting blind I would have guessed there was some Cab Franc blended in because of the herbal/sage notes... and the profile still seems different from a 100% Napa Cab Sauvignon from LPV. I'm looking forward to reading other CT notes on this wine. (4336 views) | | | Tasted by GQG on 10/24/2020: Note: after receiving it (a 7 day in transit cross-country ground shipment) and then putting it in the cellar overnight, I opened it which is typically not recommended due to bottle shock.
A mostly alcohol and menthol nose with muted fruit and a bit of earthy funk that 5 hours of decanting didn't blow off. Pure dark cassis and blackberry fruit and lots of char/embers pushes the meter decisively to the dark side which is a good thing in my book and in character for Mike Smith/LPV. Where it falls just a touch short for me are the lower levels of acidity and depth of flavor. There's a lot of ripeness here (though short of jammy) and I miss the energy, drive, fullness, and oak/mocha frame of the 2016. I haven't had the 2017 so I can't compare it. The finish, surprisingly for LPV, has little sense of minerality (and, as mentioned, acidity) which shortens it.
In its current state I wouldn't call it either intellectual or sexy. It's just a baby and I'm hoping it'll fill out in the years to come. 93+ for now. (4309 views) | | | Tasted by MAXIMUM SATISFACTION on 10/22/2020 & rated 96 points: Agree with the below notes. Very easy to drink and even better with an overnight in the bottle. Extracted dark fruit centric with heavy amounts of vanilla, espresso, burnt earth and mineral. (“Very Mike Smith” indeed). Vintage wise the fatness and approachability remind me of similarly styled 2014’s when they were released (Realm, Myriad, Carter...). Great length on it but not the structure and bite of 2016. Probably about 93 points on the first night and 96 on the second. Given how great the price is for the quality and fruit source I don’t mind going even higher as this evolves. These are an easy buy. (3886 views) | | | Tasted by #1Winelover on 10/13/2020 & rated 95 points: After 5 months, it was great to revisit this wine and it is evolving nicely. Very strong smell, decanted for 5 hours and coming into its own now -- and oh so easy to drink. I might have to hide the bottle as I only decanted 1/2.
Dark purple, red, black and a little blue. Primarily blackberry and dark raspberry fruit, lots of earth and burnt embers. Interestingly for this vineyard, mineral notes are there but not prominent. Vanilla is now emerging on the back-end; which is typical for Mike Smith wines. Well integrated tannins and a great finish. The opening, mid-palate and finish were all excellent. (5093 views) | | | Tasted by Yack Man on 8/27/2020 & rated 94 points: This was a popped, poured and consumed over 3 days. My past experience with Quivet Las Piedras Cabs are that they show big, full bodied with nicely extracted with dark ripened berry fruit, with blueberry liqueur that sets this Cab in motion along with vibrant and youthful energy. It started off nicely revealing an attractive purple intense color with light floral nose, and good legs. Day one, on the palate, tasty flavors, some minerality but surprisingly more restrained at this early point and a bit tight, not quite there in early development when compared with its predecessors. Day two showed some improvement and three, was better. 95-97+ Points/ Jeb Dunnuck early tasting notes, for me more of a 93–94 point wine for now. I would give this vintage more time to come around. It seems more dialed back, stylistically different from past vintages, tending towards more of an elegant style with a slightly lighter profile. (4400 views) | | | Tasted by #1Winelover on 5/30/2020 & rated 96 points: Blind tasting with the 2018 lineup. This was easy to pick because it was a bad ass big boy. Dark, tons of mineral, earth, burnt ember and rock. Lots going on and interesting fruit profile. The tannins need time to integrate. This is a monster and will need more time but everything but it's all there. Much better after a 5 hour decant. (5161 views) | | | Tasted by csimm on 12/9/2019 & rated 98 points: Myriad, Quivet, and others: Blackberry, oak char, burnt embers, asphalt, seriously dark cassis, and a fistful of enticing minerality make for another sexy-gothic bottle juice. The 2018 Quivet LPV is indeed the jet-black haired hot chick with the back-sized dragon tattoo. But perhaps a bit unlike the more ostentatious 2016 LPV, this most recent iteration seems like it might actually be able to pass Med School. Some serious cerebral focus going on here, driven mostly by the black obsidian rock elements rushing through the fruit core. This wine is my kind of gal. 97-98+ points. (5285 views) | | | Tasted by Cristal2000 on 11/23/2019 & rated 96 points: Barrel sample. The 18's, even at this stage, certainly set themselves apart from the 17 vintage. They show more depth, purity, ripeness and overall quality. This was the barrel sample showing the best during this tasting, although clearly it is early.
Vibrant blackberries, embers, violets and wet stone on the nose. More serious than it's 17 sibling, this shows a huge core of mostly black/blue fruit, with lots of scorched earth and mineral driven flavors to round out the profile. The tannins are already sweet and integrated, and there is great layering throughout. The finish is persistent and long lasting. These will never be the most precise wines, but the overall opulence and depth of flavor is notable and in line with 12-16 vintages. A tremendous value @ $125. 95-97 (3783 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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| Quivet Cellars Producer websiteCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican 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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