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• Senso-beak wrote: 92 points

  October 20, 2023 - Opened and poured from wine cooler. Tight and needs to warm up.....Solid ruby with no bricking. Bright bing cherry, and the tomato leaf/herbal qualities notes below are on point. Lean in the palate, needs air, but very smooth and lithe. Will update as this evolves. With air, the secondar5ies emerging....dusty, leathery notes, cedar, some licorice, darker cherry. Day two very acidic spine and cherry dominated core - lively and comes across on the lighter side of the spectrum - more red than blue or purple. Excellent example of the height of Napa cab evolution in the 90s, which to me is the best decade in the history of California cabernets and much better IMO than today's corpulent and overpriced offerings. Final observations with last glass on day 3, fleshed out much more....more full bodied, less acidic, more brawny and deeper reds. Quite nice with 3 days of air - perhaps this bottle was stored so well that it was still a sleeping baby.

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