Community Tasting Note

• alohashirt Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 30, 2021 - This was a surprise on top of a surprise ...
  
  I'd seen a very positive tasting note on the wineking youtube channel and put this on my wish list. I don't often drink Napa reds, but snapped up a bottle of this for $106. Then I read the cellartracker reviews, which were pretty mediocre for a $100 wine...
  
  Day 1:
  red fruit and pine needles on the nose, milk chocolate and raspberry on the palate, smooth, nice tannins, very appealing and better than the comments suggested. Very, very drinkable. A pleasant surprise.
  
  Day 2:
  the bottle was sealed, in the fridge overnight. I roasted chicken thighs on the bone, and poured a glass of this wine with positive expectations... Less on the nose, and when I tasted it I thought "huh? is this the right bottle?". It tastes like nothing - just kinda flat, less fruit than yesterday, not bad , but underwhelming.
  "What if it's me? Am I getting a cold?"
  So I grabbed to the two day old leftover Mt Veeder Cabernet 2018 and poured a glass. This was better, even with oxidation - it had more heft, more appeal.
  
  Conclusion:
  Day 1 this was a 92. Day 2 it was an 89. I'm scoring it 91. I don't know what to make of this. When I pay over $100 I expect to be wowed. I know that if I opened an El Nido Monastrell, a Wolf Blass Platinum Label Shiraz, or a Henschke Mt Edelstone then I would be wowed.
  
  Are there any sure things in Napa?

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1 Comment

• tc from santee commented:

  4/21/21, 9:57 AM - A great review, sir🍷

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