Community Tasting Note
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sfwinelover1 wrote: 88 points
May 2, 2019 - 2nd of 4 bottles (2 '10s and 2 '11s) from an auction lot at a bit over $30/bottle. I love CdPs but seldom drink American grenaches, which, along with the Favia lineage, made this very interesting to me. Hour+ decant. Powerful nose of candied fruit and baking spices. Sweet red raspberries and muted cherries along with dried spice on the palate. No acidity to speak of, but powerful tannins. Light to medium color and body. Without the acidity of French Grenache-based wines, this might more easily pass for a RRV pinot or even a lighter bodied zin. Decent match with seafood skewers and crab m&c. I don't know what this wine was like in its youth or where it's going, but right now it's odd, perhaps unusual is a better word. Not bad unusual, not good unusual, just unusual, almost like liquid cotton candy. Interesting and different at what I paid for it, but at the wine-searcher and vivino prices (both about $75) listed to the right, I'd be disappointed.
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tplskylrk commented:
5/3/19, 1:12 AM - From someone who paid full winery direct pricing. So painful. They jacked up the prices every vintage for the whole line 20$. The worst performing $ value investment wines I have. Painful.
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sfwinelover1 commented:
5/3/19, 6:42 AM - I'm wondering if you've had their other wines, sounds like you have. Particularly interested in your experiences with the Rompecabezas and the Cab and whether they're better values. They get lots of love on CT. btw, I thought your TN was on the money--seems the wine hasn't changed much over the years--but did get some heat on the finish at this point. Thanks.
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tplskylrk commented:
5/3/19, 8:31 AM - Got out before the Ram was out. I absolutely loved the Cab. It’s an amazing wine. Partly why I kept buying. But the prices were an outright gouge. They drive them up and screwed loyal customers. I’ll never buy from any project from those 3. Money whores.