Community Tasting Note
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tonyvelebil wrote: 88 points
January 30, 2012 - Traci opened this blind for us to have for dinner (of course she knew what it was!). Accompanied roasted pork tenderloin, sweet potato fries and broccoli. Smelled it, dark in color and ruby red at the rim, with that dusty, pencil lead/graphite, dark fruit that says this is Cabernet and not from CA. So I taste and run through the progession - medium tannins with a decent core of red fruit and cassis just poking through. More pencil lead/graphite and I proclaim it is Bdx and probably left bank from the 2005 vintage - guessed b/c of the tannin structure and relative shyness of the fruit. I didn't go so far as Pauillac but should have...Oh well. Nice wine, I think she said she paid about $20 which is fair. 88-90?/100, maybe a bit lower on the 88 if it doesn't pop. Didn't really pair well with the tenderloin though.
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