Community Tasting Notes 20

• Winechat63 Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 14, 2023 - This is drinking great. Dark purple cork. Started well and finished strong. Dark grapes and blackberry. Very smooth, low tannins and minuscule acidity. I wish I had more, will be good for another 5 years. It will hang with wines above the reasonable $80 price of this.

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• iamandyc Likes this wine: 93 points

  June 13, 2022 - Rock solid cab that rarely disappoints and punches above its price point

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• Grenik Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 16, 2022 - Not rating the label, but I love it! Great ruby color. Spicy and fruit nose. Great flavor depth. Plum, raspberry, leather, cedar, herb, spice. Long and lingering finish. Drinking very nice, but may improve a bot over the next few years.

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• iamandyc Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 22, 2022 - I continue to admire Patria wines for having such a solid QPR and this one is terrific in its $75 price tag. It's serious wine -- deep flavors, dry, energetic, substantial but fine tannins but without the sweetness, over-extraction and manipulation of say, ~2015+ Caymus. Still on the young side but held up well over 3 nights (refrigerated between nights 2 and 3).

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• mflesh wrote: 91 points

  July 19, 2021 - To defend my rating, I will first of all say that this wine does not resemble a wine sourced from the Oakville Bench. Definitely seems to be a darker expression with a lot of blackberry pie, vanilla bean flavor with very stiff oak tannin. This was compared to a French wine 2017 which was really quite impeccable, and a Lewelling Cabernet from 2005 which was just exquisite after about 30 minutes of air. This wine had all the dark blackberry notes, but overall, it did not showcase the character of the Oakville bench which is more of a black cherry, raspberry, even somewhat floral notes that these beautiful wines can be. It still finished with a bit of stiff oak tannin. I would really prefer this wine to hold another 5 years to see how well it integrates. But alas, time was not on the side of this wine as it was chosen to be the wine for this afternoon! I would think that maybe in a couple of years it might gain a point, maybe two, but I am not sure of this. I think the 2005 Lewelling outdid this wine.

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• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Patria
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Oakville Ranch
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Oakville

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• In Cellars 182 (51%)
• Consumed 176 (49%)

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