Community Tasting Note

• msuwine Likes this wine: 95 points

  November 27, 2018 - This rich and integrated Cabernet is drinking well right now, though my guess it that it will be better in another year or so. Although it's shed its baby fat, it has a more grainy character that should fold back into the wine with more time. All that aside, this is delicious now, and it should only get better.
  
  Dark raspberry in color and full in body, the wine has aromas of blackberry, cocoa powder, baking spices, and crushed rock. Tastes of mountain blueberry, graphite, leather, and cedar, with a compelling finish that combines cocoa and gravel (with more of the latter). 15.1% alcohol. Still going strong on second day, with perhaps a bit more sweetness.
  
  This seemed like a breath of fresh air next to a 2014 Anthem LPV, which was all sugar and alcohol in comparison. I know Mike Smith's approach is modern / fruit-forward / big / insert-your-adjective, but it should be said that his wines, especially after a few years from the right vineyard, just sing. This is such a wine. 95+ for now, with upside.

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• Jazz Nut commented:

  11/29/18, 7:51 PM - Thanks for the nice tasting note! I had a bottle a month or so ago, and the bottle went very quickly. As good as all Mike Smith wines are, the LPV may stand at the top for me. In addition to the purity of fruit his wines have, this vineyard seems to add an interesting mineral/gravel/earthen element which really balances out the fruit.

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