Community Tasting Note

• msuwine wrote: 94 points

  March 23, 2020 - This ripe and dark wine is the third 2012 Fairchild Cabernet I've tasted in the past two months, and I do think it's my favorite. The LPV was a bit too earthy, and the Sigaro too extracted, while the GIII manages to be both ripe and restrained, with enough tannin and acidity to make it work better than the other two, at least at the moment.
  
  Dark red in color; full in body; pungent nose of espresso, boysenberry, worn leather, and menthol. Tastes of blackberry tart, cocoa bean, graphite, and mulberry, with a sweet but grippy finish. 14.5% alcohol. Decant at least an hour.
  
  These three Fairchild wines seem to have a certain roughness - i.e., heady aromas, extracted fruit, grippy tannins - like a cowboy at a cocktail party. Yeah, I can sing every word to "Friends in Low Places" like any proud Midwesterner, but this wine should have more polish and integration at the eight-year mark, especially for such a generous vintage. It's enjoyable, yes, but it doesn't achieve the greatness it's seeking.

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