Community Tasting Notes 42

• jbrekke wrote: 93 points

  January 3, 2024 - Truly excellent. Right in my wheelhouse for Cabs. Nice menthol on the nose

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• alden.vansolkema Likes this wine: 94 points

  April 22, 2023 - Very dark fruit. Complex. A lot to put your mind on. Drinking exceptional.

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• ccmhome wrote: 89 points

  March 17, 2023 - This bottle had lost the rounded Napa cab fruit and was a little flat.

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• Cabernet4me2 Likes this wine: 95 points

  June 5, 2022 - Wow... just incredible... these bottles are "in the zone".... it was initially a PnP, and then drank over the next 6 hours, and have to say it was consistent from the first sip to the last. Deep broading dark fruit interlaced with blue and purple. The nose on this bottle was beautiful, so much goodness i would have loved to jump in and bathe in it!! lol
  
  This bottle showed no signs of any age, so think these have a lot more life, so absolutely not rush to drink.. however couldnt say if any additional bottle time will improve, but at this point and for the price of admission .. who cares!! Im in for more!!

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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 94 points

  July 22, 2021 - This is a tough one! My last bottle :(
  
  I always get sad with the last bottle......but this may have been THE best bottle of all my stash. Right from the pnp yesterday. Classic Cali cab nose and it was full of rich, ripe fruit...loaded with cassis and sweet dark plum, this bottle had zero raisins on the palate. It mellowed over 3-4 hours throughout the evening as I drank half the bottle, with the rest sitting in the decanter at room temp. It improved in depth, richness of fruit and mouthfeel as it went along. Just laid a topper across the decanter and waited for the 2nd round tonight. Immediately....more muted nose......more notice on the tongue of s-m-o-o-t-h powdery fruit.....still some higher end acidity which seems to beg for more years settling out in the bottle.....I am both shocked and pleasantly surprised by this bottle.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2012
• Type Red
• Producer Gandona
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Encosta
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation St. Helena

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• Pending Delivery 12 (1%)
• In Cellars 496 (43%)
• Consumed 643 (56%)

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