Community Tasting Note
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Dagalaifus Likes this wine: 95 points
November 24, 2018 - This "Super Tuscan" is a blend of 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Petit Verdot and 20% Cabernet Franc. In the glass, the wine is a dark garnet. It's medium-bodied and shares a nose and palate of blackberry, black cherry, tobacco and cedar with hints of earth, tar and smoke. Popped and poured, the wine is ever so tight; accordingly, give it a few hours in the decanter or a few more years in your cellar before tasting. The finish is stunning with all of the aforementioned tasting notes lingering in your mouth for minutes. As an aside, I tasted this blind with half a dozen wine store proprietors. They were split down the middle with half insisting it was a Left Bank Bordeaux and the other half convinced it was a Super Tuscan. That's not surprising, as the wine's flavor profile (for me anyway) falls somewhere between a Left Bank Bordeaux and one of those stellar, but much more expensive Super Tuscans. A wine that I won't soon forget and at $39 per bottle, it has an outstanding QPR. Addendum, a number of CT tasters refer to the wine's "balance," or describe it as "balanced." I wholeheartedly agree with that characterization, but only after a few hours in the decanter. Addendum, I subsequently tasted the 2013, which RP adores. The 13 is still pretty rough around the edges, and given a choice, I'd go for 10 instead.
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