Community Tasting Notes 7

• mckillop Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 29, 2023 - Love the wine these two produce!

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• jkvedar Likes this wine: 92 points

  September 18, 2021 - This wine does not taste 9 years old. Decanted for 1 hour Still very vibrant and youthful. Black raspberry, a cassis and a touch of mint on the nose. The vanilla, baking spice is in the background. Paired with grilled ribeye, baked potato and garden salad. The palate shows full-body, medium acidity and medium tannins. Still quite tannic on the tongue and roof of the mouth. Just a touch hot at this point. Long finish.
  
  If you have bottles in your cellar, you can keep them for 5-10 years

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• Geaux Tigers wrote: 94 points

  August 15, 2021 - First time with Barrett & Barrett. Decanted 90 min. Dark as nite, only slight bricking on the edges.
  
  Fairly simple nose, blackberry and black cherry, which matched the palate, but the palate added black olive and dried bing cherries. Glided over the palate, fine by drying tannins. Plenty of tannin and acid to go a while in a cellar. Seemingly young?
  
  At 3 hrs, the wine opened showing a beautiful perfume bouquet, but the tannins became more prevalent and locked down the fruit and the finish a bit. Good fruit and good winemaking on display here.
  
  For whatever reason, this drank better at slightly above cellar temp. 95 for 2.5 hrs, 94 thereafter.
  
  This was delicious but with little room in the cellar it is not a buy for me.

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• Tiger1028 Likes this wine: 96 points

  May 5, 2021 - This wine was gone before we even realized we had started. So smooth and flavorful. Did not decant. Opened and poured glass after glass. It’s in a great place right now.

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• fats1976 Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 8, 2020 - Very very young. I think this needs a few more years. The fruit was there, but very muted and was struggling to shine through. I will drink the next one one a few years.

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• Vintage 2012
• Type Red
• Producer Barrett & Barrett
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Calistoga

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• In Cellars 375 (72%)
• Consumed 143 (28%)

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