Community Tasting Notes 12

• Cliff Booth wrote: 85 points

  March 12, 2023 - PnP; curiously spicy, backwards and thin. Meh.

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• Rick 4 Wine wrote:

  November 10, 2017 - Wine comes across as jammy and overly extracted, unctuous even. Slightly hot especially on the back palate. We drank as a PnP but over three days. I'd put this down as a poor QPR wine. I won't buy it again. We had a 2012 Scarlet (McGah) opposite and it was significantly better

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• Rick 4 Wine wrote: 90 points

  November 13, 2016 - Right on the Fringe of a 90 to 91, ultimately we rounded down to a 90 because I just don't get the level of fruit one would expect from this kind of Cabernet. I find this fruit pushed red forward on the palette and just slightly hot. We decanted for two hours, and while the heat set down, the fruit never developed in the body as the nose would suggest. The nose is beautiful, with darker fruit saturation, some oak and nice mineral structure. The body has red fruit dominant (and after two hours some nuanced purple), camphor and new leather. The finish offers more dark fruit but fades in mouth watering tannins. Not sure how this will age, but an $80 wine? I don't think so. Poor QPR.

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• SARED Likes this wine: 94 points

  December 19, 2015 - Love it. Tight yet jammy. Must be decanted.

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• Vita Vinum Does not like this wine: 87 points

  July 14, 2015 - Needed time to open up. Nice fruit forward flavor. Not as complex as I thought it might be for the price point. I was a bit disappointed.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Piña Cellars
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Firehouse Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Rutherford
• UPC Code 451291007504

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• In Cellars 164 (46%)
• Consumed 189 (54%)

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