March 17, 2024 - This bottle showed much better than my first. Everything you would come to expect from a Dunn. Incredibly youthful at the 10 year mark. It did drink more like a valley floor cab than a mountain cab. Maybe a hot vintage.
January 1, 2024 - Decanted 6 hrs at room temperature. Lovely wine. Nose is dark fruit with eartheral undertones. Palate is very dark jammed fruits such as blackberry with tons of deep eartheral profile. Finish is long and full bodied. More fruit as it goes on comes out. A longer decant does this young wine good. I will revisit in a year or so. Glad I have 5 more.
December 31, 2023 - Drinking well but not a wow bottle. Lacked a bit of depth and intensity but very solid just not in line with the best bottles.
December 21, 2023 - Dark fruit with earth and a touch of herbs and minerals. Fascinating in its depth without the high intensity I was expecting. A beautiful bottle of wine.
December 16, 2023 - Decanted 1 Hour had with ribeyes. I freaking love this wine. No manipulated berry taste just dark black fruit hint of tobacco and earthy to the core.
November 20, 2023 - Awesome stuff- more in line with the first time I tried it (a stunning experience) rather than the second time (still stunning but a touch rougher around the edges.) This bottle showed a great deal of elegance and expressivity.
Tons of cedar, dark black currants, blackberry jam spread on very lightly buttered toast, high-toned accents of black licorice, dark chocolate cherry cordial, and mocha/coffee grounds on the fairly effusive, perfumed nose. The pyrazine character is so dialed-in here, with an undercurrent of earthy coffee/cacao, but never showing even remotely "green"- a real feat of balance. The oak is powerful and present in that toasty/cedar thing, but for my palate, it didn't overwhelm the fruit at all.
I think the palate really takes off with a bit of simple food (in this case, a greasy cheeseburger)- the tannins are hefty and textured, but never coarse, at least not with a layer of fat coating the tongue. Fresh black fruits, licorice, and cacao all the way down, lingering for some time.
Still my single favorite Cabernet I've ever had, although some have come very close. It just has an inimitable character and flavor profile I've yet to find elsewhere except in the 2018 "Napa Cuvee" by the same team, which felt very similar, just with less depth and length.
October 14, 2023 - Sit down tasting. Charming black and red cherry with wonderful depth, surprisingly soft and elegant tannins for this young. Very pretty already now, with further upside from here.
September 25, 2023 - Big nose, full body
September 9, 2023 - Decanted 2 hours. Cassis prominent on the nose. There’s an herbal character to the early palate before dark fruit dominates. Blueberry and cassis. Tannins aren’t overwhelming for a relatively young vintage - it’s certainly approachable. Probably should have decanted longer. Paired with a ribeye while watching football outside with my dad - can’t complain at all (although he wasn’t impressed).
April 2, 2023 - Good, but tasted a little thinner than other vintages