Community Tasting Notes 36

• Yack Man wrote: 93 points

  April 24, 2024 - A good wine, but a bit underwhelming overall. Beautiful aromas and dark berry fruits and extraction, but the energy that typifies this brand was missing. Day one, the wine showed restrained, it never really opened up 90+ points. Day two, was the best, it had opened up a bit, but not to the degree that I would have anticipated, 92+ points, day three the wine regressed. I would recommend a very long decant for this bottling. It could just be one of those stubborn vintages that requires long cellaring.

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• Badmonkey wrote: 95 points

  November 5, 2023 - Came across some bottles of the 2018 vintage that I’m thinking about buying so decided to pop my last bottle of the 2017 vintage - I’m still a little on the fence with this wine. I believe the regular Myriad G3 cab is more my style. Day one, decanted for a couple hours but it came across rather rich/ripe and over the top for me so put it away for day three. Improvement on day three as it settled down some. Dark ruby fruit - dark cherry, currants, and blackberry. Really smooth mid-palate with a nice purity but again fairly rich. Nice flavors of cassis, baking spices/licorice, cocoa, and a graphite component. Fairly long finish. Clearly a high quality cab, however, once again I believe the regular Myriad G3 cab is more my style. 100% cab.

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• Gnieboer Likes this wine: 95 points

  September 23, 2023 - Fantastic aromatics, licorice and red fruit, savory on the palate, some tobacco, overall not jammy. Decanted for an hour, enjoyed over another 2 which was not enough really but it was too nice to drink slower.

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• timcan Likes this wine: 95 points

  August 14, 2023 - See JustBreathe680 notes 👇, nailed it

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• Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 22, 2023 - Still working my way through these ‘17s. The fruit is still ripe and delicious and plenty of spices. But the high alcohol just did not appeal to me and made it hard to rate this any higher.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Myriad Cellars
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Empyrean
• Vineyard Beckstoffer Georges III Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Rutherford

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• Pending Delivery 13 (1%)
• In Cellars 733 (74%)
• Consumed 247 (25%)

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