Community Tasting Note
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Cyclist Likes this wine: 100 points
May 24, 2021 - This is after a 12 hour decant. Having a glass of this wine instantly made me more attractive. This has it all and all of it is so well integrated even at this age after an aggressive decant. A huge but smooth backbone of fine, structured tannins that scream cellar and will undoubtedly push this through decades of cellaring. The this isn’t a fruit bomb, it is an elegant well-crafted piece of art consisting of hundreds of moving pieces that all move in synchronization. It is tough to pull out singular notes, they fuse together so well without being a singular wine. There’s notes of beautiful wild berries and handfuls of gravel. There’s a lovely, almost leafy uplift. Some of the vines used in this wine are over 60 years old and come from some of the most gravelly soils in all of Napa County. What a wine. The Macdonald’s themselves are incredible people with an incredible history in the valley. This 2018 is incredible now with a huge decant or opening and re-corking and leaving in the cellar overnight, but it’s only going to get better with time (heck, it’s not even released yet).
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