Community Tasting Note
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Baxterna Likes this wine: 91 points
February 25, 2022 - Past it’s prime. Still a nicely structured wine but clearly with some age. The rusty red rim of our pour was showing signs of agin. The nose still has lots of ripe plum but the alcohol seems to have faded a bit. We liked this one better than the 1997 Special Selection, in spite of it being 5 vintages older. As a developing novice taster, I put this on the lower end of the high-end wines that I have tried. Mostly because it is tasting old and the tiniest bit stale. Generally I like younger to middle-aged wines. This one is just past that point of being a wine I truly love. Nevertheless, I will always love any Caymus simply because my first taste of 2012 special selection was the first time I had tasted a wine that I felt was perfect to me. So still a lot of love for this wine that is 30 years older than my first ever Sp. Sel.
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