Community Tasting Notes 17

• Bryanb2002 Likes this wine: 98 points

  March 30, 2024 - A wonderful bottle of wine. Shae said it was ready and she is right. The surprising thing is it is not heavy it’s lighter body than you expected but packed with flavor with an epic nose. Fantastic snake wine that I slow ox’d for about six hours. If you bought these early like I did it’s certainly safe to open one of them.

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• ledocq Likes this wine: 98 points

  February 21, 2023 - On Shae's advice, I decanted this for 4 hours, which I'm going to say is definitely the minimum - I wish I'd given it more, but hey I'll live. You never know what's going to happen when you finally open a wine you have pinned a lot of hopes on. This was the best case scenario: one of the finest cabernets I've ever had, period. The nose is a little shy for now, but the flavor was mind-blowing. There is so much detail work uncoiling here my brain couldn't take it all in. It's not a heavy wine, though it's defiitely bold and the length is freight-train like. So much velvet power, suggestions of things to come, and yet also current rewards for giving it a try now. I am going to let the remainder rest a few more years. We used Spieglau Definition glasses, which I think was a good choice. My wife, upon hearing its current retail price, said, "Worth it."

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• billyloveswine Likes this wine: 96 points

  October 1, 2021 - Very surprised to find this wine on the list at a local steakhouse and immediately made a reservation. The wine definitely lived up to the expectation. It offered a complex spectrum of pure red and black fruits, like raspberry preserve, blackberry, and cassis, with an undertone of vanilla, tobacco, and graphite. Deep ruby colored, the wine had the proper amount of extraction, super smooth texture, and its acidity and ripe and silky tannins kept me reaching for more. At such a young age, it's already drinking beautifully. The bummer is that there are only 2 barrels of this beauty made!

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• Cow Town wrote:

  December 31, 2020 - Pulled this for NYE after a great visit with Kinsman in Napa in November tasting the 2017s (and a sneak peek on a 2018), and a ton of great reviews of the 2016s. Unfortunately, when I pulled the cork I saw wine all the way up the side of the cork. Color was right, but the nose was a little hot (but not stewed) and muted. Stayed muted/a little off all night. Chalking this up to a faulty cork, and happy to have a few more bottles.

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• LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 96 points

  October 23, 2020 - Wow. I would like to just post the one word and drop a mic but not sure how to do that so here goes.
  
  Had both Kinsman 2016 wines at one of our favorite restaurants in AZ, Cafe a Monarch (unfortunately we had to bolt due to an allergic reaction) or it would have been a perfect night. Krug 168 and both 2016 Kinsman wines.
  
  Krug- same notes apply. must give this air or the acidity closes the palate unable to reveal its inner goodness. Hold as it will become something special but a beautiful early champagne nonetheless.
  
  R- quick super decant and drank through 45 minutes. excellent in all facets, attack, middle and end with a long finish. Cassis, boysenberry, blackberry, coco, tobacco, hint of dark wet earth all built around a thin mineral spine that carries this full bodied wine through the long finish. Now on the the textural pleasure of a mouth coating luxurious silky sexy kitten batting the tongue playfully teasing you throughout the experience- just excellent. I am a huge Nigel fan from his days at Araujo but this style is a juxtaposition of that style- both excellent wines with very different profiles. This is a wine that is drinking spectacular now and now is when it should be drunk as well as later. A homerun right out of the gates. Buy with confidence.
  
  A- quick super decant and drank through 45 minutes. A very good wine but not at the level of R. It is missing the attack of R but maybe it’s a the vineyard requiring time to fill out? Regardless a beautiful feminin wine that if not had with its badass brother would have received accolades by all. This wine while missing the attach has a good middle and end of blackberry, dark red cherry, a bit of earth, coco, cedar and a velvety texture. Enjoyed by all . Very good wine and would love to check back in a few years from now to see if it filled out. Yummy nonetheless.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Kinsman Eades
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Rhadamanthus
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Diamond Mountain

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• In Cellars 254 (76%)
• Consumed 73 (22%)

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