Community Tasting Notes 5

• PMJak11 Likes this wine: 98 points

  November 4, 2023 - This was insane! One of the better wines I’ve had. 1hr+ decant. Purple color with red hues and no bricking. However when you pour, it shows a maroon like color. Bordeaux like nose with darker fruit. Tobacco, dark cherries, cedar, and graphite shows it’s complexity on the palate. Lovely texture. The finish is where it shines! Refined with the age and quality showing through. Wow! Sad it’s my last bottle.

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• PMJak11 Likes this wine: 94 points

  November 18, 2022 - PnP. Dark purple color. Lovely nose of cedar, earth, and dark cherries. Lots of complexity and character on the palate. Medium depth but a little stringy at the end. Faded over 3hrs. Very good wine!

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• davidandrose Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 12, 2019 - Notes are two hours after first opening. Slight bricking on the edge. Aged wood And red fruit on the nose; overall the wine seems much softer than my last tasting a year ago, and shows it’s age with an elegant profile that’s more fruit and less structure.
  
  Red plum, soft leather, marionberry. This improved with 30-45 mins of air and didn’t diminish notably in the 3 hr drinking window.
  
  Based on this bottle I’d drink remaining bottles within a year, but this is so much softer than a year ago I’ll gather there some bottle variation.

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• takk Likes this wine: 94 points

  November 23, 2018 - This was super - dark fruit with a spearmint essence on the nose. Full-bodied and a beautiful wine in general.

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• davidandrose Likes this wine: 94 points

  July 28, 2018 - Initial hour this was pop and pour, then decanted the last 2/3 of the bottle and followed over 90 mins.
  
  This comes off as mountain fruit at first, both on the nose with rich, dark fruit and the profile. After an hour this added some Bordeaux-like complexity but is still a new world wine with dark fruit that seems younger than its age, leather, forest floor. While there’s a long finish at this point, it doesn’t have the layering or depth I’d expect.
  
  After an hour in the decanter the layering emerges and builds through the balance of the wine. I only have one more of these but I will decant at the onset. Fine to drink through 2020-22

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• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer Neal Family Vineyards
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Howell Mountain Estate
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Howell Mountain

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• Consumed 132 (68%)

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