Community Tasting Notes 8

• havana4 🍾🍇 Likes this wine: 94 points

  August 23, 2023 - Bug and hefty wine. Amazing development over a 2 hour decant. Absolutely cannot wait to try this in 10 years. These are built to age.

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• sean7711 Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 20, 2022 - Paired with Filet mignon, roasted potatoes and salad on Sunday night. Opened for only 2 hours prior to serving.
  
  Earthy, a bit medicinal, with some minerality as well. Distinctly MG though. I would give this a few more years to come around. Not sure if this will reach the lofty scores I gave the 2014-2016, but I will hold my next bottles for a while to see.

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• WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 15, 2022 - Nose: [57°-64°] Rustic red fruits, deep green stems, dry slate and damp oak. With air time, fruits turn darker while keeping its rustic profile, deep black earth, soft violets and a bit of soy sauce but minus all the savoriness, leaving behind the fermented part (might've sounded weird but I meant that in all good ways). With even more time though, things integrate into a more pleasant blend of fruit, earth and minerals.
  
  Palate: [59°-64°] Darker red fruit, a brooding spice that trails into the finish, pleasantly bitter tannin like steeped tea and dried broken twigs, a dark graphite, old parchment (more like a scroll, not the baking paper) and savory minerals. After around 4-5 hours, everything integrates much better and flavors really start to hit their stride, becoming much more balanced. Red and black fruits with tannin, minerals and a spice that trails long into the finish.
  
  Attributes: Clear dark medium ruby. Dry with medium-plus amounts of fine, chewy tannin. Medium to medium-plus body with medium-plus acidity. Great finish of at least 22-26 seconds.
  
  Thoughts: Love it when a wine defies a bad vintage. This took time to come together but once it did, it was some good stuff. During the early glasses, things were a bit more separated but with lots of time, things integrated nicely. A pleasure to drink now with a hefty decant, or exercise patience and put away for at least 5-8 years. 94+
  
  Serving notes: Bordeaux glass. Emptied bottle into a decanter at cellar temp ~55° for 0 hours before serving, continued to decant while consumed over another 7 hours (total 7 hrs). Recommend serving ~62°-64° with a decant of at least 4-6 hours at cellar temp if opening now.

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• csimm wrote: 95 points

  April 30, 2021 - 3 days in Napa: Arkenstone, Memento Mori, Maxem, The French Laundry, Christopher Tynan, Kinsman, Harlan, Vice Versa, Accendo, Fairchild, Macdonald, and a truckload of others (Napa): My second time trying this wine (since 12/07/2019), the 2017 MG carries interesting plum and muddled blackberry flavors complimented by red/purple licorice, vanillin black cherry, and some dark spice notes. On the final sips, an herbal tinge added interest. This is a notably complex 2017 in the making that needs (like all MGs) time in bottle to fully come together. Displaying a more red/purple fruit profile (compared to previous vintages), the 2017 maintains its freshness with poise and channeled penetration. This is one of the few 2017s coming out of Napa that I will actually be looking forward to adding to my cellar. 95+ points. A wine to lay down for another 7-10+ years, though it does show an approachable side to it with some extended swirling in the glass. An especially worthy food wine indeed.

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• Cristal2000 Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 23, 2021 - In fairness here, higher riding, redder fruited and more acidic cabs are not my wheelhouse. When you put that together with an already old school style, it makes it a bit more challenging for me to enjoy. That being said, this is very well made and certainly won't be offensive to anyone drinking it.
  
  TN: Nose of black cherry, spice box, tobacco, plums, roses and iron ore. Lots of herbal elements on the palate, with a few green notes. Concentration isn't near as high as the other wines we had alongside, and the acidity is more noticeable. It's definitely less of a standalone wine and more made for a food pairing. Lots of savory character to go with excellent purity and freshness.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Christopher Tynan Wines
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Old Vines
• Vineyard Meleagris Gallopavo
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• In Cellars 131 (83%)
• Consumed 20 (13%)

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