Community Tasting Note
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I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine Likes this wine: 96 points
July 26, 2023 - Open THAT Bottle! (Jason's House): Decanted for 2 hours before consumption. This is an awesome wine! Some at the table thought it was too young, and should have been aged a few more years or decanted longer. I thought this was firing on all cylinders! Nose was incredible, filled with purple flowers, fresh baked blackberry pie, some spice and hints of anise. Palate was also divine, with blackberry pie, some Christmas spice, with notes of tobacco, earth, chocolate, some tar, and well integrated sweet toasted oak. This wine was leaning on the hedonistic fruit side of the spectrum, but was still showing tertiary character. A balance I really like where you get lots of fruit, but tertiary goodness also, and not just hints of it. Solid 96, maybe even slightly higher....what a wonderful wine. Enjoy now or in the next few years if you like a balance of fruit and tertiary flavors, wait longer (or decant much longer) if you prefer wines that lean on the tertiary side of the spectrum. Either way, it is very enjoyable, and will remain so for quite a few more years, IMO!
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bsumoba commented:
7/27/23, 9:53 AM - I feel like like 05-12 is the wheelhouse for Napa wine right now. Anything in the 90s for me today is probably on the over the hill side for me, although I had some 99s that were doing well. Thank you for the TN. It is good to know that older Abreu still hold some fruit and don't go completely secondary/tertiary on us.
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I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine commented:
7/27/23, 11:43 AM - This would be squarely in your wheelhouse! Some thought this could easily have been at least 5 years younger.