Community Tasting Notes 45

• Tym4wine Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 26, 2024 - Lovely wine. Soft, rounded tannins. Dark black fruit flavors. Medium+ finish. Nicely aromatic. This wine is aging beautifully.

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• Gordianbar wrote: 93 points

  October 6, 2023 - Very smooth and integrated tannins. Fruit forward on the open. Should be lovely in a hour or three.

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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 95 points

  June 29, 2023 - Been about 4 years since my last taste of this one. Big 2nd night wine provided by the DQ....decanted for 2 hours then enjoyed over 2 more. I thought it drank better the first hour. Dark in the glass, nose of great cinnamon and juicy mulberries. Even a little sweet 'grapey' component in the early going. The palate reflects soft red/dark red fruit, maybe raspberry? Initially a tad hot on the back end, this calmed down later and was replaced by a little astringency on the back end as the bottle was finished, along with some significant muting of the great cinnamon/mulberry nose taking place as well. I preferred the first hour of this one and it nosed out all the other 94 point wines tonight with a 95 as WOTN for me.

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• Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 94 points

  June 28, 2023 - Deer Valley Palooza in 3 stages with Mark1npt and Agelvis; 6/25/2023-7/1/2023 (8,100 ft): First wine with Mark and Carol and WOTN for me alongside some really nice wines.
  Decanted 3+ hours. Great nose full of dark fruits and florals. On the palate dark plummy fruits and spices cinnamon and apparently mulberry. Tannins were smooth and the acid brought some juiciness to the fruit. A little hot and astringent on the finish but I noticed this less as the night went on :-)
  Much better than my bottle 2 years ago

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• Jmac56 Likes this wine: 93 points

  May 26, 2023 - Lovely leathery nose. Very well balanced with nice chalky fruit, not too extracted, and moderate acid and tannins on the finish. Drinking great now.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type Red
• Producer Venge Vineyards
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Family Reserve
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Oakville
• UPC Code 000004703242

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• Consumed 516 (39%)

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