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• cbaldry wrote: 70 points

  September 17, 2015 - Fat & featureless. Not recommended.

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• Epicúreo Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 20, 2015 - Very pleasantly surprised with this wine. I'm far from being an expert, but it almost feels like a well aged wine.
  Brownish garnet with a brick rim. Lots of tiny legs appear in my glass.
  Heady bouquet at the beginning, but quickly mellows; displaying mineral, wet pavement and spices.
  Light-medium body, with a mellow and rather complex, velvety palate: cigar box and cooked prunes; with vanilla and citrus undertones.
  Soft tannin structure and low acidity, with a medium red velvet cupcake finish (surprise!).
  Excellent QPR!

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• Austnalio wrote: 85 points

  January 8, 2014 - - Garnet color with slow forming legs and aromas of blackberry and chocolate. It's unbalanced and has flavours of blackberry, raspberry and almond with a light/medium body. Narrow texture with a medium finish.

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• reubenshapcott wrote:

  September 27, 2013 - Tastes like the first year after college.

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• gbanks Does not like this wine: 50 points

  September 24, 2013 - Mon dieu. I would not recognize this as wine. The nose is redolent of plastic, windshield-wiper fluid, bleach, and new shower curtain. On the palate, the chocolate comes through as the type of cheap dollar-store chocolate that doesn't actually contain any chocolate. Finishes slightly hot, with an odd Szechuan peppercorn like nasal burn. I broke the glass while washing it out after this.
  
  Drink now or hold.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Cupcake Vineyards
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Red Velvet
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation California
• UPC Code 081308001258

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