Community Tasting Notes 8

• rjmp96 Likes this wine: 91 points

  February 28, 2021 - A nice mix of fruit here. Aromas ranging from crushed raspberry, leathery blackberry, and black plum skin to licorice root, cola, wild violets and ground allspice. This is still a brute of a wine, with an inky purple color, tons of extract and acid and tannin that are through the roof. Usually not my style but this is very good. The fruit is pure and linear on the palate, with nice complexity throughout, including further notes of roasted applewood and brown sugar. A little lactic and a little hot and spicy on the back end but delicious all the same. The first Petite sirah that has actually impressed me. From the 10- acre Thomann Station Vineyard in St. Helena.

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• eadsaaron Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 15, 2020 - Sugar plum, brown sugar, dark chocolate. Rich.

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• Number51 wrote: 92 points

  October 15, 2019 - Wow, this is a dark brooding port-like red. It is rich with dark berries, asphalt, dark cocoa, and a hint of caramel. It isn’t too oaky.
  I had left the bottle upright for two weeks, and now inside of the bottle is stained black, so it looks like the bottle is still full. I have never seen anything like this before.

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• MsDee wrote: 90 points

  February 13, 2019 - Dark, dark purple and dry as a bone. Delicious tannins. I want to say berry flavors that are under-ripe yet not greenish; and a little spice.

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• Chawk28 Does not like this wine:

  May 4, 2018 - Sadly this might be past it's prime -- lots of sediment.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2012
• Type Red
• Producer Louis M. Martini
• Varietal Petite Sirah
• Designation No. 254
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• In Cellars 66 (41%)
• Consumed 95 (59%)

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