Community Tasting Notes 8

• prccap Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 29, 2022 - Very big wine with overripe fresh fruit, but still seems very closed. Mostly blackberry aromas with smooth tannins in just the right amount to match the bigness of the wine. Hopefully gets more complex with a couple more years

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• Daddybones wrote:

  February 25, 2021 - Really amazing full bodied. Made by Karen’s friend Chris. $150

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• KenK Likes this wine: 91 points

  September 15, 2020 - Vinous Learn with Antonio Galloni. Dark smoky violets, sweet black raspberry fruits. Firm medium fruit density level with very nice oily texture, some firmness but well integrated. Nice chewy texture. Some chocolate bitterness. Less in your face, well made, but perhaps a bit closed perhaps. Good length. More about the sleek texture today. Sleeping Lady vineyard. A place to watch per Antonio. 2 clones, 6 and 191. Early ripening clones. 100% cab, Chris Phelps owner, was at Dominus in early years. 92-93 potential for me. 2016 freshness comes from first vintage after drought.

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• tbabes wrote: 93 points

  August 8, 2020 - Vinous learn tasting with Antonio Galloni. Popped and poured for the tasting, and consumed the rest of the bottle that evening with dinner. Dark purple core, with heady notes of chocolate covered cherry, cassis, hints of tobacco, spice box, and earth. Medium to full bodied, fleshy texture, ripe tannins, and a long finish. Not as enjoyable as the Rhadamanthus.

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• msuwine wrote: 95 points

  August 6, 2020 - This dark and dense Cabernet is drinking impressively right now, with incredible fruit and an earthy undertone that suggests even better things are in the future. Dark red in color; full in body; nose of graphite, cocoa bean, boysenberry, and menthol. Flavors of blackberry, red plum (read: the energetic kind), cardamon, and gravel, with a sweet and layered finish that carries plenty of tannin. 14.7% alcohol.
  
  This has a compelling amount of ripe and pure fruit (read: not a lot of woodsiness here), but it is the savory and spicy undertone that make the wine truly unique. It's kind of like a Dominus with more polish, but that same underlying class and restraint. 94-95 for now, with upside in 2022 or later.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Ad Vivum Cellars
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• In Cellars 198 (77%)
• Consumed 58 (23%)

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