Community Tasting Notes 11

• Ravi Deshpande wrote: 91 points

  November 19, 2023 - Big round bruiser. Lots of fruit and glycerin or alcohol or all of the above. It’s a good wine but I think my taste for these behemoths has passed.

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• torrescarl924 Likes this wine: 89 points

  July 18, 2022 - beautifully balanced. nice wine with bold flavors

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• Odedis.Wine.reviews Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 25, 2022 - This is a delicious Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. Still very young, but already enjoyable, even by itself.
  
  Full bodied with medium acidity.
  
  Dry and very fruity on the palate with nice complexity and mouthfeel.
  
  Showing black fruits with cedar, licorice, chocolates, vanilla, spices, tobacco, coffee, peppercorn and light earth.
  
  Long finish with fine grained tannins and tangy cherries.
  
  Another great wine from Mike Smith. Spicy, rich and extracted. Very tasty.
  
  Good right out of the bottle, and better after 2 hours of airtime.
  
  This 6 year old, from the great 2016 vintage, will continue to age nicely in the next 10 to 15 years.
  
  I paired it with a Charcuterie board of meats and cheeses.
  
  100% Cabernet Sauvignon grapes were aged in French oak barrels for 22 months.
  
  14.9% alcohol by volume.
  
  93 points.
  
  $125.

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• Tym4wine Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 29, 2021 - Wow, such a difference bottle to bottle. Vivid floral aromas. Deep dark black fruit flavors with soft supple tannins. The finish goes on and on. Perfect wine to launch the weekend. Enjoyed with lamb chops and rosemary potatoes. Fantastic.

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• Tym4wine Likes this wine: 89 points

  October 24, 2020 - Very nice floral bouquet. Seems to have a little heat on the back-end of the inhale. Deep dark garnet with translucent edges. Dark fruit flavors, albeit tart. Appears to be linear having some very sharp edges. The tannins are tight and grippy. The finish seems short, uneventful and with a little astringency showing some heat on the backend of the finish. This wine needs to settle down a bit and come together a little more. Very different experience from a year ago. Wondering if it could be the bottle?

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer 12c
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Beckstoffer Georges III Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Rutherford

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• In Cellars 64 (41%)
• Consumed 91 (59%)

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