Community Tasting Notes 22

• csimm1161 wrote: 100 points

  June 6, 2023 - TOP SHELF WINE WEEKEND: A perfect wine, and perhaps the best wine of the weekend. Black fruit profile (my favorite!), with dark spice, and black rock, black soil, black roses?!, black-black whatevers, bitter black chocolate, and more black stuff, the 2015 Promontory is an instant “Wow” wine. Sumptuous, elegant, and mineral, the savory elements play perfectly with the graphite, obsidian, loam (like the kind near Stonehenge, where the fog never ever lifts), and toasted anise notes. Fine tannins and a perfectly clutched grip from beginning to end, the Promontory straight owns other wines around it – which is saying something since all the other wines were also amazing (and I don’t say that lightly).
  
  I’ve rated this 95 and 97 in the past, but this bottle was 100 points any way you look at it. Concentration and textural density are so on point, it makes you just want to swipe the bottle from anyone else wanting a splash just so you can run away to Mexico with it, start a family of baby Promontories, and leave all your problems behind. Of course, then you’d be broke and unable to afford Promontory; so, there’s that conundrum.

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• I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine Likes this wine: 96 points

  May 27, 2023 - Wild and Crazy Memorial Weekend - Saturday (Chris' Castle aka Melissa's Manor): What can I possibly say about Promontory that hasn't already been said! Promontory, like all Harlan wines, strives for excellence, and typically achieves it! But that is where the similarities stop! Promontory is a much more elegant and finesse wine than Harlan. The wine shows plenty of black fruit and dark cherry with milk chocolate, spice, earth and tobacco on both the nose and the palate. This wine is still quite primary and all about the fruit, which is exquisite! Much better than the 15 Cariad also served, IMO (although the Cariad was good, this was just better....at least for my palate). Easy 96 now and will improve.

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• WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 99 points

  May 27, 2023 - Memorial Day Weekend, Day 1: Inglourious Basterds: Aromas of dark red and black cherries, clean new oak, and intense red florals. Very intense over all but a very clean profile on the nose.
  
  Flavors of dark red fruits and berries with a black strikethrough of graphite, fruit coated but dry minerals, and an undercurrent of deep earth.
  
  Loved the purity of fruits here. Swift elegance on the palate whilst leaving a strong impression on the finish. This definitely makes me think about getting some.

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• bsumoba Likes this wine: 99 points

  May 27, 2023 - Memorial Madness at Case de Chris y Melissa - Day 1 of 2: Incredible! Powerful and elegant at the same time. Clearly battling out for WOTN with Selosse and maybe the 19 Cheval. This was showing incredible depth and concentration and a finish that lasts forever it seems. When a wine makes you grab your phone and start looking up which places have some, then you know this is a great wine. This wine further strengthened my love for Promontory. I might even like this place over Harlan a bit. Having had the 15 cariad and a few other 15s recently from Napa, scballfan might be right…the 15s from Napa are in a very good spot right now. Thank you Rick (scballfan)!

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• wino_tim wrote: 92 points

  October 21, 2022 - Poured from the bottom of the bottle; deep, murky ruby. A youthful, somewhat restrained and notably fresh nose offers aromas of blackberries, black raspberries, peppermint, cocoa powder, vanilla and loamy earth. Full bodied on the palate, but not lush or round, this has relatively bright, medium+ acidity, tight, grippy tannins and a nice mix of just ripe black fruit and savory flavors. This is well done, notably complex and quite classy, avoiding the opulence of the vintage. That said, it is nearly impossible to taste this and not think that there are at least a couple dozen other wines that do what this does for hundreds of dollars less per bottle.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2015
• Type Red
• Producer Promontory
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Code 3258690026900

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• Pending Delivery 87 (3%)
• In Cellars 2,560 (88%)
• Consumed 259 (9%)

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