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Community Tasting Notes 4
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Yack Man Likes this wine: 97 points
June 11, 2021 - This is a solid wine, a pop and pour experience, a beast right out of the bottle that also shows smooth elegance. Inky dark purple color with an attractively sweet, purple candy like nose. On the palate, generous dark berry fruits, blackberry, semi tart black cherries, cassis and plum notes showing with perfect ripeness. This wine is full bodied with smooth tannins revealing some acidity that smooth out with some air. This wine is as described, a ‘full figured’ wine, a genuine delight. 96+/ 97 Points. 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Petit Verdot, and 2% Malbec.
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Stotzy wrote: 100 points
July 22, 2019 - This was amazing. Might be Jill's new favorite wine.
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OG-Wino Likes this wine: 97 points
December 26, 2018 - One of the most enjoyable wines I've had this year.
Darker fruits (blackberry, plum, black cherry), mocha, and cedar are the more dominant flavors in this wonderfully complex bordeaux blend.
I know this should wait a few more years, but there is no way I am holding off that long to drink mine. -
csimm wrote: 96 points
June 22, 2018 - Hourglass: My favorite wine in the lineup. This came off as somewhat of a hybrid of the Blueline and the other Estate. It had the deep, black, flavorful core fruit of the Blueline, but a near-perfect frame to hold it all together in perfect focus and delineation of flavor. A modern wine to be sure, but with a cerebral component that elevated interest. A pole dancer with a Ph.D.
Specific notes of blackberry, black cherry, black cassis (if there is such a thing), dark bitter chocolate chunk, espresso, asphalt, and hints of herbs and clove/spice.
Drinking great now, but some additional time in the bottle will likely reward with more seamlessness in its delivery. 95-96+ points. Try again after 2020+.
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2016
- Type Red
- Producer Hourglass
- Varietal Red Blend
- Designation 36-24-36
- Vineyard Blueline
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Napa Valley
- Appellation Napa Valley
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 254 (74%)
- Consumed 89 (26%)
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- CountryUSA
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- SubRegionNapa Valley
- AppellationNapa Valley
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