Community Tasting Notes 37

• Stufonhead Likes this wine: 91 points

  November 17, 2022 - On its way down. But this bottle holding up. Oxidative smells blown off, it's more than just drinkable. Clearly expressive and complex. Impressing that it was once big and burly, now a little loose in its skin. I wonder how this makes it to day 2...

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• Stufonhead wrote:

  October 18, 2022 - Opened two bottles in a row that have reeked of flabbiness and old prunes. Feel this is what this wine has become and past few bottles have been just fortunate to have avoided aging normally. Or just these bottles were not stored appropriately. We'll see I got two more bottles, but I will have low expectations for them.

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• Stufonhead Likes this wine: 92 points

  July 19, 2022 - Much like the prior bottle: Nose and palate notes consistent; however, I did forget to comment on the still-tannic quality immediate on PnP. Held steady for the next few hours but didn't really improve much, except that it did soften a bit. Drink now.

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• Stufonhead Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 29, 2022 - Really good out of the bottle and improved over two hours but slowly declining onward. Nose is super with rich cigar, cassis, cocao powder, and hint of forest floor. Palate is full with very ripe blackberry with a hint of prune, and dark chocolate. With time the forest floor and prunes become more prominent, leading to some imbalance and that slight regret of not having finished it earlier creeping in - I mean I'm sitting around drinking wine - can't possibly be that resentful.
  
  Seems passed peak but very good to drink now without need for significant aeration, in fact I wouldn't recommend it. Just pop, decant for the thick sediment, and drink with a few peeps.

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• galewskj wrote: 93 points

  June 23, 2019 - Slow o'd 4 hours. I should have decanted this, both for integration and for all the sediment. It was still quite enticing. This is a dense deep petite sirah with lively red to black fruit. There is also tobacco and earth, but the fruit is the focus here. Three of us found this wine to be relatively balanced for such a monster. 2 others were significantly annoyed by the alcohol. I felt the alcohol was balanced by the fruit, but obviously YMMV.

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• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Switchback Ridge
• Varietal Petite Sirah
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Peterson Family Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• In Cellars 203 (43%)
• Consumed 267 (57%)

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