Community Tasting Note

• wineotim wrote: 91 points

  November 27, 2019 - Sampled at a local store event. Ripe, open, juicy style.

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• Mark1npt commented:

  11/27/19, 5:07 AM - Tim, this has been a great buy at under $50 and quite tasty from '12 thru the '16 but had the '17 last month out in Napa and it's quite syrupy/over extracted. I had bought 3 prior to tasting and am going to hold for a year or two and hope they calm down and get better. '17 was a tough vintage out there with record heat that summer (over 115 deg many days) and so many of the wines have this same syrupy taste and texture to them. Almost like having pure Coke syrup vs a carbonated Coca-Cola.

• wineotim commented:

  11/30/19, 10:17 AM - Yep, I'm trying to focus on the '16 vintage for purchase.

• Mark1npt commented:

  11/30/19, 11:06 AM - Smart move, Tim. I tripled up on my '16s out there last month and have only a very limited selection of '17s from Napa in my cellar.

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