Community Tasting Note
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iamandyc Likes this wine: 94 points
June 18, 2021 - At the highly discounted pricing that this wine was made available by the wineries new owners (Seven Apart), this is a screaming great QPR and the best 2017 vintage wine I've had to date. Still young, as it grew in seriousness and complexity throughout the night. At PnP, it is a luscious plum fruited wine with nice viscosity and so smooth. The structure was a bit lacking making it a crowd pleaser but not much else. With hours of air, the structure and secondary flavors began to nicely support the wine and make more special. My highlight was experimenting by adding an ounce of the 2012 Cliff Lede BTK to a couple of ounces of this wine -- a sacrilegious but amazing infusion of complexity and seriousness to this wine! Enjoy it if you got it - probably will improve with age.
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7 Comments
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Mark1npt commented:
6/18/21, 8:06 AM - Lol...in France they'd lock you up for doing that!
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iamandyc commented:
6/19/21, 3:20 PM - Vive la difference! Hey they'd arrest me in Napa too!🤣
Every once in a while when I am at the end of a couple of bottles, I try out my blending skills (?) to try to create something even better. 🤦🏻♂️ -
Mark1npt commented:
6/21/21, 1:05 PM - It is fun.....I've done it only a couple of times but it can pan out nicely sometimes!
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Franken Berry commented:
8/26/21, 3:34 PM - Hmmm. I’m tempted to reproduce that experiment. Why not? This is what the better wine makers do all the time in Napa - it’s call a Napa valley designate (NVD)
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iamandyc commented:
8/27/21, 4:52 AM - Haha! The experiment worked very well this time! The BV needed the guts that the Lede had to put it over the top! Having fun is what this crazy addiction is all about. ;)
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Mark1npt commented:
9/1/21, 4:51 PM - You guys are too, funny.....
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Mark1npt commented:
9/1/21, 4:52 PM - Andy, I agree......so much fun to be had here and with these animals!