Community Tasting Notes 3

• wine30flight Likes this wine:

  December 3, 2017 - We tasted the 2014 vintage -- Virginia's signature red grape from one of Virginia's very best wineries -- shortly after it hit the bottle. It was divine then, actually one of the single best Virginia wines that had ever cross our lips. A couple of years on, now, and we find a wine whose best year we suspect to be 2019. Keep your bottles safe until then. Meanwhile, today we're getting a nose of clove cigarette, tobacco, black pepper, generalized spice box, and red stone fruit. Follow that up with more red stone fruit on the palate, unripen red plum, green pepper. You might find some Merlot-like viscosity when you first sip, followed by cranberry that turns quite smooth, and a little menthol in the finish. Leave it open for a couple of hours and you'll swear your drinking the burnt sugar top of a crème brûlée.

  Comment

• Pantera Likes this wine: 88 points

  April 3, 2017 - I could smell this wine all day. Cranberries, cedar chips, cherries jubilee, oak, chocolate covered cherries. But the taste didn't really echo that on the nose. Medium bodied with a short finish. Pretty good overall.

  Comment

• pakabear wrote: 84 points

  June 19, 2016 - Real nice pepper nose and also noticeable on the palate, black cherry and toasted oak, overall not bad.

  Comment

Pro Reviews 0

• No pro reviews found.

Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type Red
• Producer Delaplane Cellars
• Varietal Cabernet Franc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Benevino
• Country USA
• Region Virginia
• SubRegion Northern Virginia
• Appellation Fauquier County
• UPC Code 696859109799

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
• In Cellars 17 (36%)
• Consumed 30 (64%)

Food Pairing

Who Likes This Wine

More About This Wine