• SWHighlander wrote:

    July 10, 2023 - Blind wine tasting with 6 other Bordeaux and Napa reds. Decanted 750 ml bottles for 3 hours. Still tight, acids and tannins out of balance with the fruit. Not a crowd pleaser compared to the others that night. A 2013 Joseph Phelps Insignia imperial magnum, for example, was tasting much better with balance and integration. Will see how the Lokoya does with more time.

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  • Jaws4096 Likes this wine: 95 points

    July 3, 2023 - Decanted through a coffee filter for 2 hours, with lots of heavy sediment removed. Very good, but still pretty tightly wound. I think this might need another 5 years or more. That, or a heck of a lot longer decant.

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  • robertek wrote: 95 points

    November 26, 2022 - Still young.

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  • Quiet Lion wrote: flawed

    May 18, 2022 - Some brett interfering with enjoyment

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  • WineBaron Likes this wine: 99 points

    November 25, 2020 - I wasn't sure what to expect of the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Mount Veeder, and gave it a long 3-hour+ decant. It's a beautiful wine, powerful but not overwhelming. The nose is a bit spicy, hinting at the complexity to come. Notes of red fruit, berries, and forest floor. I appreciate a long and changing finish on a cult Cab, and this does not disappoint. Parker raves about the 2013 vintage, and this is going to get better and better over time.

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  • Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 98 points

    November 25, 2020 - Decanted three hours. Dense, pure redcurrant and oak fill the palate seamlessly, ebbing into a very long finish. This is a remarkable wine and I can see how its uniqueness prompted Parker to give it a perfect score. It's a showoff wine for Mt. Veeder fruit and both a crowd pleaser and a delight for connoisseurs. Thoroughly enjoyable and showing beautifully now and for many years to come.

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  • BBencz Likes this wine:

    January 11, 2020 - Short decant and then poured through a Vinturi. Dark, flinty nose, with faint hints of tobacco and spice. Huge on the attack, with lots of dark fruit, but then the tannins clamp down on the back end, leading to a long, drying finish. Obviously a highly pedigreed wine with all the right component parts. Will see where this goes for the next several hours, but initial reaction is that this needs another decade.

    Report after three hours: tannins mellowing a bit, less drying on the finish with ample blackberry, cassis, and light vanilla notes. Give this a long decant if opening now.

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  • L&LChiang Likes this wine: 100 points

    March 31, 2019 - Great smooth wine had it with Vice Versa Las Piedras BBS which as a comparison was so much better

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  • farinas wrote: 94 points

    July 19, 2017 - Big bold wine with dark fruit with hints of mint coming through. Impenetrable at the moment and stern in the palate. This wine will require plenty of aging to open up. I prefer the more perfumed profile of its Spring Mountain sibling, as Mt Veeder is a hotter site missing some of the cool breezes from the coast.
    Tasted at the estate in a horizontal-vertical of Spring Mt and Mt Veeder 2007 and 2013.

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  • leadpencil wrote: 97 points

    March 25, 2017 - Full bodied boysenberry with slate, tobacco

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