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• msuwine wrote: 94 points

  February 24, 2020 - This earthy and open-knit Las Piedras Cabernet is quite enjoyable, but it lacks the intensity or depth that I hope for in an LPV wine from this vintage (and at this price point!). It's tasty at the moment, but - I agree with #1Winelover - I don't think it's worth it, especially after a few hours of air.
  
  Dark purple in color and medium in body, the wine offers aromas of blackberry, crushed rock, warm herbs, and graphite. Tastes of blueberry, menthol, fresh leather, and crushed pine cone, with a grainy and pleasant finish. 14.5% alcohol. No rush on drinking, since this is what it is for the next 3-5 years, I think.
  
  My first Fairchild wine, this seems to fall on the more restrained end of the LPV spectrum. It doesn't have the ripeness or intensity of, say, a Carter or Fait-Main (where my heart lies), and it instead seems more like a Hobbs or Alpha Omega - more dirt, less fruit. To each his own, of course, but - every once and a while - it's kind of relieving to find an expensive wine I don't want to buy again!

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