Community Tasting Notes 76

• Backdoctor wrote: 96 points

  February 25, 2024 - Decanted sediment out, put back in bottle and had 1.5 hours later. Amazing how young this wine appeared. Great color still plenty fruit on the palate. What a joy to drink. Can't believe it's 28 yrs old!

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• hrazdiiv Likes this wine: 91 points

  November 11, 2023 - I liked this wine from Togni, a highly renown producer, but it was a bit circuitous in getting there. I’ve always found his wines to have that vegetal, green pepper note to them that I have found off putting. This wine was the same but it more or less blew off after a couple of hours. Color is still nicely dark purple-red. Nose has aforementioned “green” notes but also some pleasant baked cranberry, cassis, and pencil. Very classically styled as everyone knows, this is a Bordeaux blend in both varietal and style. Drank undecanted. Think this is close to being fully mature. Still not convinced with this producer despite stellar reputation.

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• boillatm Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 9, 2023 - Fully tertiary (felt 10 years older than what you would expect). Nice though. Drink up.

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• Moonie Likes this wine: 96 points

  March 8, 2023 - The 96 Togni is what I would call the Bordeaux lover's California Cabernet Sauvignon. Not heavy. Not over-extracted. Not high in alcohol. Just beautiful fruit and balance. All the tertiary elements you would expect in an older Bordeaux. Ah, for the good old days when you actually could pair California Cabernets with food.

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• Papies wrote: 94 points

  February 14, 2023 - The Inaugural Paris Wine Event (Papies at Passy, Paris): Decanted for a good hour and on the advisable side of things.
  We are not sure if it’s the bottle or the fact that it was tried side by side with the exceptional 1997 Sassicaia ( Papies 96) which overshadowed it but was a lower notch of a wine that the 95-96 we have been rating this over the last decade in 7 occasions. Took some time to get going and it was only at the end of the dinner that this really came out of its shell and excelled. This effectively is a Pauillac with an extra dollop of fruit as is a Napa Cab after all. Well mannered fruit, polished and well round on the palate , has a softness to it , round tannin but ever so present. Good level of fruit and devout of any burnt feel that we have come across with others of its kin in 1996 , pure and effortless. Easy 94 albeit the first glass was a 92 . Happily we have 6 more! A lot of life here.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Philip Togni
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Spring Mountain District
• UPC Code 400002358534

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• Pending Delivery 2 (0%)
• In Cellars 805 (60%)
• Consumed 539 (40%)

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