Community Tasting Note
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pmarlo Likes this wine: 97 points
January 1, 2016 - Cork pull decent, no infiltration and held up well. Cork really long too, a plus for me. First sip I could tell this wine was shut down hard, but had a lot of material just waiting to emerge. Fruit was muted. during the evening it began slowly to emerge and intensify. But the second day was absolutely marvelous. Incredible heady bouquet. the most incredible balance in a wine I have ever had. Crystalline pure in the flavors and not silky like say a Stags Leap wine is. Tannins really well behaved and held in check. The best cabernet based wine I have ever had. Have had Shafer HSS, Altamura, Dominus, Merus, Paul Hobbs and others and this one has topped them. Profound wine. As it took a full day to emerge, I think aging can continue for a good 10 years in prime storage conditions. Highly recommended. I like to bring good wines to a BYOW restaurant but I would think twice for this one so only because of the long time it took to fully develop and emerge.
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