Community Tasting Notes 7

• KTelaak_Buffalo Likes this wine: 95 points

  December 4, 2022 - Still very young and tried it over 2 nights. Decanted night # 1 and was showing its strength after about 2 hours. By the 2nd night it was brilliant. Will age very well. Great balance.

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• Ronreid54 Likes this wine: 92 points

  September 5, 2022 - Perhaps a little more time…

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• csimm wrote: 94 points

  November 9, 2021 - Halloween in the Vice Versa Cave: Locked (and hopefully loaded), the Lokoya Mount Veeder ain’t havin’ any of your monkey business right now. This is a wig-donning, goggle glasses-wearing, dusty couch and moth balls-smelling substitute teacher who wants you to do one thing and one thing only: Sit down and shut up (well, I guess that’s two things, but you get the idea). Strict and serious, this is a do your assignment and don’t ask any questions until your real teacher comes back kind of wine. Dark spice, gritty blackberry, angry as all get-out minerality, and cheek-sucking arid tannins, the Lokoya is more straitlaced than Ward Cleaver incarnate.
  
  June: "Don't you think you're being a bit hard on the Beaver? He's been through a great deal today.”
  Ward: "What's the sense of going through a great deal dear, if you don't learn something from it?"
  
  Well, the Lokoya is going to have to learn how to not be such a tempestuous L7, because it’s certainly “going through a great deal” at the moment, desperately needing to air-punch-dance out its rage to some angry anthem Slipknot tune.
  
  In Somm terms, this wine needs at least a decade to integrate and attempt to shed its formidable frame, which is currently shielding the fruit from its full expansion of flavor. 94+ points, with crossing-finger upside once it finishes its court-appointed anger management. Cellar bottles until after Shia LeBeouf stops being crazy.

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• Cristal2000 Likes this wine: 96 points

  August 15, 2021 - Had this alongside a 18 Vice Versa Mag 7. Both were given about 7 hours of air and double decanted...and both could have used even more time and air.
  
  The aroma on this wine was simply spectacular! Black cherries, dark chocolate, black raspberries, red licorice and lovely floral notes. As expected, vs the VV M7, this was way more mineral driven. Higher register red and blue fruit are barely peering out from behind a huge structure of tannins. It's super firm, with freshness in spades and drives a linear stake into the back of your throat with massive persistence. This is a complex beast that is going to take many years to sort out and live up expectations. That being said, as age worthy Napa wines go, this is high up the food chain. I wouldn't touch it for another 5 years minimum. Lots of potential, but not sure I see triple digits in the future.

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• bsumoba Likes this wine: 97 points

  May 1, 2021 - Napa - Lokoya - Vice Versa - Memento Mori: This was #1 after the 2 hours tasting, but it was #2 in the beginning. This wine was changing in the glass and it was fun to watch it do so. Red and dark blue berries, blackberries and a hint of spice dominated the nose and palate here. There was a slight floral component that was coming out in the wine too. I’ve had a number of Mt. Veeder wines in the past and this was clearly smoking all the wines I’ve had. There was a tannin structure that you can tell was going to allow this to age very well. I would give this a good 6 hour decant if you want to try it now. Pour it in the glass and watch it evolve but it seemed to be best with at least 4 hours. But for me, this is a cellar lurker and will need some age in bottle to really strut its stuff. Is it 100 pt as a couple critics pointed out? Not for me. But, clearly it is 96+ with upside.

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• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Lokoya
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Mt. Veeder

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