Community Tasting Notes 13

• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 points

  April 22, 2022 - Decanted 2 hours before taking to HMCs for dinner, tonight. The darkest garnet of the three wines tonight, with just a hint of the ever so thinnest ruby meniscus at glass edge. First nose is a mix of deep red/black fruit with sweet tobacco leaf and some brown herbal components. Maybe some Fall leaves/forest floor? First sips......medium plus weight, and dense, dark mountain cab fruit. I think there is some great Cali Redwood in my glass! Really, I think I saw it! A big hint of tannin and astringency remains from mid palate thru the ending. Slightly mouth puckering at the end but the fruit is sooo good. 1-2 hours of air might be all this one needs. Will check back in one hour.
  
  Coming up on one hour of air and this is really moving.....cassis in spades! Tannins are receding. What a luscious, mouthwatering wine! Great acidic backbone giving all the support it needs. Just beautiful. Back into the bottle under cork into the cellar for the next hour.
  
  Over the next two hours, this was the WOTN, to me. The depth, power, concentration and make up of this mountain fruit was the easy winner tonight. This '13 is absolutely in its window right now. Unfortunately, this is my last of this vintage. What a treat, to cellar these until they hit drinking windows like this......

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  April 3, 2022 - Drank with Chase after making Carbonerra

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• chuckos77 Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 20, 2022 - Well balanced and aging nicely. No hurry, I think it had some room to mature

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• mda7 Likes this wine: 93 points

  May 30, 2021 - fantastic

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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 24, 2020 - A nice bottle opened for the 2nd half of dinner with Andrew and Kayla. Nice at the pnp with plenty of lead pencil and cedar. It roughened over 90 minutes open at the table. Became a little more coarse in the mouth and little more unbalanced with oak. Maybe drink this the first 30-40 min it's open? But then again, I don't know what it would have done 6 hours later......

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• Vintage 2013
• Type Red
• Producer Cimarossa
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Rive di Cimarossa
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Howell Mountain

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• In Cellars 89 (35%)
• Consumed 167 (65%)

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