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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 points

  January 21, 2023 - Good from the pnp before dinner but I liked it better as the night wore on. Solid fruit, intense, dark red and black. It's a rich cab nose with red licorice (twizzlers) earthy black soil, burnt caramel and some cassis. While I liked this one early, I really liked it as the night wore on and more air was in play.....if I hadn't finished this one so early in the 4th quarter of the Eagles wipeout of the Giants, it may have even gained another point.

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• AGELVIS Likes this wine: 96 points

  January 21, 2023 - PNP. Deep dark magenta core. Dark raspberry and bitter chocolate. Very smooth, dry palate, with pixelated acidity. Very firm tannins on the longish finish.
  
  Beautiful, fragrant nose. It was my third bottle in quick succession, so I took terrible notes. The score is real. This was provided by Mark1NPT at his home where I’m kicking off an extended wine weekend. Someone’s got to do it. ;)

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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 points

  September 25, 2022 - Pnp'd into a decanter at 2pm while watching the Eagles grind Carson Wentz and the Redskins into the ground.....sampled all throughout the game....
  
  Initial impressions? 91-93 with nice ripe, sweet powerful fruit but a tad thin in the mouth and a general feeling of a lot of heat on the backend. Stated alc on the bottle is 15.1% but it 'feels' like more. Knowing that by law in CA, you can be off by up to 1.5%, I'm not surprised if it's actually more.
  
  2-3 hours in and this one turns......for the better, now a 94-95. exact notes are quite difficult to come by as Carol is cooking some spicy Tuscan chicken dish for dinner and the garlic and spice aromas out of the kitchen are messing with my olfactory sense. Dark magenta in the glass I get red, blue and black berries, some slight floral component and maybe a hint of graphite with some mossy forest floor. All I know for sure is the fruit deepens and expands. The wine puts on weight with dense, sweet cassis showing up in spades. The mouth feel changes to this silky, soft powdered graphite glide in the mouth, but in no way is this wine feminine in any way. It's much too powerful as more acidic backbone emerges as a touch of the previously noted early alc backs off. This is surely way over the top for any Francophile but yet will float any big, powerful Cali cab drinker's boat to the heavens.
  
  Hours 4-5 brings even more of the great cassis and depth of fruit. Intense blackberry compote and a hint of chocolate shows up. Some of the soft silkiness leaves, but the concentration of fruit takes center stage. Still a tad hot and acidic but that just elongates the ending. I really don't want this bottle to end but I'm down to the last glass, now. Gave Carol a sip and she remarks at how much the wine has changed for the better from the pnp, this afternoon.
  
  Hour 6 sees a little more blackening to the fruit, a lot more chocolate emerging on the palate and a touch more acidity noted. This one has been a fun ride.......

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• Cablover1982 Likes this wine: 96 points

  July 1, 2022 - Opened this after trip back from Bergen to Oslo. And wow what a wine this time around vs last time when I opened. It filled up, gained some weight. Scrumptious notes of roasted plums, cigar box, lit tobacco, sandalwood and vanilla bean. Medium plus bodied, smooth delivery with right balance of power and finesse. Great finish! A solid 95-96!

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• Badmonkey wrote: 95 points

  May 21, 2022 - Had to go to an old reliable when another wine wasn’t ready. Love this vintage especially at the $95 close-out price. Dark ruby fruit - currants, blackberry, dark cherry, and blueberry. Smooth mid-palate with a nice purity and solid depth/concentration but a little lighter profile than around a year and a half ago. However, the tannins are incorporated quite well. Nice vibrant/rich flavors of dark berries, spice/licorice, cassis, and a mineral/graphite component. Fairly long finish. Popped/poured but drank out of a decanter for a couple hours. Improved a little with time but drinking quite well right away. Once again, a nice vintage of this wine. 100% cab.

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• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Bacio Divino
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Janzen
• Vineyard Cloudy's Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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