Community Tasting Note

• Collector1855 wrote: 95 points

  November 19, 2016 - Napa Valley Master Class with Robert Parker; 11/10/2016-11/20/2016 (Napa Valley): During a tasting session at Lokoya with the winemaker and commercial director. Expressive nose of dark fruit, lots of cassis, some smoke and meat. Big and bold wine here as well. Entry on the palate is great but then it starts drying out with the masses of tannins. Aroma: 97, Tannin: 93
  PS: My summary for Lokoya is: The wines are really characterful and aromatic but the tannins are too rustic and lead to a drying finish of almost all the wines. Can they soften enough with time is the question.

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• MC2 Wines commented:

  11/20/16, 11:07 AM - Having had a bunch of the old ones (from the mid 90s), would say that these are really wines to age. With 20 years on them, they are just awesome. Different wine maker, but suspect the same with be true with Chris Carpenter's wines.

• Collector1855 commented:

  11/20/16, 7:15 PM - Yes, I hope so as well as the wines are aromatically very interesting. To be revisited.

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