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2014 Roy Piper Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

12/26/2020 - asteff Likes this wine:

97 points

Fantastic wine. Wow. It was drinking beautifully. Well proportioned, with nice black cherry and blackberry notes. A great graphite/gravel edge. Nice lengthy finish and acidity was really pleasing.

asteff commented:

1/13/21, 9:07 PM - Pretty much a pop and pour. Did taste through the evening and again on day two. Still drinking well the second evening.

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2014 Becklyn Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Moulds Vineyard Oak Knoll District

7/14/2019 - asteff wrote:

Really didn’t show well this time around. The fruit and acid didn’t jive. It had a ripe dark fruit with bright acid that never really came together. Haven’t had anything taste quite like this before, so not sure what happened.

asteff commented:

8/27/19, 11:03 AM - @Badmonkey, did you find this across other of his 2014s? I don't think I've touched many of them yet but this one certainly made me nervous.

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2012 Shafer Relentless Napa Valley Syrah Blend, Syrah

7/23/2018 - asteff wrote:

90 points

Inky dark purple. Ripe berries and only a touch of oak notes. Nice length. One of the bottles was corked.

asteff commented:

9/24/18, 7:28 PM - Good question. I’m not sure I can answer this one. My impression is that it was made to drink young, with the features on the fruit. I did not get the sense that there was a lot left to intiegrate like you can feel with younger norther Rhône’s and some Syrah from the northwest US or Paso. I also don’t personally understand how the Petite Syrah affects this. So long story short, it certainly has plenty of time to be drunk, but I don’t think it will become much more either.

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