Community Tasting Note

• Badmonkey wrote: 97 points

  May 4, 2019 - Decided to sacrifice a half bottle young in light of recent positive CT notes - quite impressive even at this youthful stage. Dark purple fruit - blackberry, dark currants, dark cherry, and a little dark plum. As usual, really nice depth/concentration and purity of fruit. Rich/vibrant flavors of dark berries, some spice box/licorice, and chocolate/cocoa. Fairly long finish. Decanted for two hours and drank over a couple more. Improved a little with time but drinking quite well after the decant despite its youth. Really enjoyable at this stage with a decent decant, however, I'm going to lay the other bottles down for a couple years to let the fruit soften/integrate/develop further. A nice vintage of this wine - I wouldn't be surprised to see the upper range of WA's 96 to 99 rating and Dunnuck's 99 rating with a little more time. 100% cab.

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6 Comments

• blarmston commented:

  5/4/19, 8:41 AM - Those 375's are SO tempting! Nice note...

• Badmonkey commented:

  5/4/19, 11:48 AM - I hear you. I know a lot of individuals enjoy using a corvin, however, for me it's not quite the same. I wish more wineries bottled 375s especially in regards to higher-end cabs so I don't feel as guilty taking an early look. Although they also don't age as well with the smaller volume so I get it. Take care.

• JEP007 commented:

  5/4/19, 1:59 PM - Popped a 375 a few weeks ago, I concur with the high scores. I really like this style of winemaking. Wished I purchased many more of these little guys.

• Badmonkey commented:

  5/4/19, 2:24 PM - JEP007, I agree - convenient especially when I'm greedy and don't want to share. I wish I would have bought as well.

• blarmston commented:

  5/4/19, 6:59 PM - I was gonna pop one of mine this evening, but the GF is out of town so I said fuck it, I’m gonna pop the cork on a 750 of the ‘16 Vice Versa. Because, why the hell not...

• Badmonkey commented:

  5/4/19, 8:29 PM - I look forward to your thoughts on the 16 Vice Versa because I thought my last bottle clearly needed some time.

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