Community Tasting Note
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msuwine wrote: 96 points
January 30, 2021 - This stunning wine offers incredible fruit, expansive mouthfeel, and lively structure. The texture here is the most impressive part: even though the flavors are dense and ripe, there is a silkiness in the mouth and a lift on the finish that give the wine a real elegance (albeit in a modern, New World kind of way). I thought the 2010 was fantastic a few weeks ago, and this is on the same trajectory - just delicious.
Dark red in color and full in body, the wine offers aromas of boysenberry, black cherry, espresso, and cloves. The flavors are lush and open-knit, with notes of blackberry, charcoal, leather, gravel, and cardamon, with an integrated finish that carries grainy tannins that need a little more time to integrate. Blend from Abreu’s Madrona, Posadas, and Thorevilos (my pocketbook curses you, David Abreu!). Blend of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, and 8% Petit Verdot. 15.2% alcohol. Darker and more savory (e.g., olive, charcoal) on second day. 95-96 at the moment, with upside in 2023 or later.
P.S. I opened another bottle a few weeks later with a killer array of wines - 2012 Matriarch, 2012 Bard, 2010 Bryant - and this wine stole the show. I lack notes (precision wasn’t quite the point!), but this wine is the real deal, period.3 people found this helpful 3,514 views