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| Community Tasting Notes (average 96.3 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by GranadaPedroAlarcon on 4/19/2024 & rated 98 points: This is truly exceptional and just keeps getting better. It has great intensity and richness. It full body with a great finish (298 views) | | | Tasted by Weiner on 3/31/2024 & rated 96 points: Great wine (334 views) | | | Tasted by csimm on 6/6/2023 & rated 97 points: TOP SHELF WINE WEEKEND: Rich without being rich, day one of this wine was fairly plush, pumping full throttled black fruit and chocolate notes out like a firehose. A baby Vice Versa M7, the Lail was unsurprisingly showing like a version of the Melka M7 concoction served next to it. The Lail maintained more poise and seemed less gushing than the M7 at the time, but both were flavor hounds hunting for fruit to pounce on the palate and proffer lusciousness and succulence. The grip on the Lail is fine indeed, with a honed focus that keeps the core in perfect center. A bit of scraps left over for day two present even more focus concentration and convergence. There is heightened delineation and cadence, with a rhythm that defines classism-meets-modernity. An exquisite bottle of wine. (3766 views) | | | Tasted by WineBurrowingWombat on 5/28/2023 & rated 93 points: Memorial Day Weekend, Day 2: The Great Gatsby: Nose of rich red fruits and dark, dirty earth with tons of heat.
Flavors match the nose with tons of dark almost black fruits, a coating of powdered graphite, and similar earth from the nose. But unfortunately the palate seems to also match the nose with the same amount of heat.
Maybe it's the slightly higher temperatures that the wine might have been exposed to. That heat was pretty stubborn. (1881 views) | | | Tasted by sfwinelover1 on 5/28/2023 & rated 95 points: Best of the World Wine Night (ex-Italy) (The csimm_M Estate): This was another relatively late in the event taste, done just once. My first dance with this cuvee (and other than a Blueprint SB, this producer), although I have a ‘14 in my collection. Really great nose and interesting palate with dark berries and currants, a hint of red currants, mocha, forest floor, exotic spice and perhaps a hint of wildflowers. Dark, medium-full bodied, impressive complexity, intensity and persistence. I recall a solid structure here but not the specifics, other than to say that this seemed a really promising wine which needed more time to better integrate, although I didn’t get the heat WBW did. I don’t think that this will ever get to the top tier of the amazing group we had nor the 100 and 99 pro scores (the 96 is absolutely in reach, IMO, though), but I’d welcome having more time a bottle of this to have a more considered opinion. 94-95+ (1994 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 9/22/2022: Lots of pure black fruit on this one. Rich, powerful, soft. Going strong on day two. (2015 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 4/2/2022 & rated 96 points: Tasted at the Matter of Taste Zurich 2022 Walkaround Tour, hence only brief notes: A dark, jammy fruit showing bramble berry and black currant along with nice, spicy complexity. A juicy and harmonious palate. (2485 views) | | | Tasted by jimyeni on 3/31/2021 & rated 97 points: Such a great wine. Smooth, elegant, very focused. There’s grip on the finish but it’s so enjoyable now. I can only imagine what this will be like with some age on it (3651 views) |
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JebDunnuck.com, Napa Valley’s 2018s (1/27/2021)
(Lail Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon J. Daniel Cuvee) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Napa Valley’s Thrilling 2018s & 2019s, Part 1 (Jan 2021) (1/1/2021)
(Lail Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon J. Daniel Cuvée Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (12/11/2020)
(Lail Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley J. Daniel Cuvee, United States) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Lail Vineyards Producer website - For more on Lail VineyardsCabernet 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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