Community Tasting Notes 17

• eschuldt wrote: 99 points

  March 29, 2024 - Singing and great way to celebrate the new place.

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• RayT Likes this wine: 100 points

  December 8, 2023 - Wow! This was ABSURDLY good! Had this with dinner at my friend Dick's house about 4 months ago and I am just catching up with TN. He almost popped the 2019 Absurd but I talked him in to popping the 2016 instead. We decanted this for an hour before dinner. I tried this on pnp and it was delicious but it filled out a touch with air.
  
  This wine is dark purple almost black in color with a beautifully expressive nose and a palate to match. Intense flavors of creme de cassis, blackberry, blueberry, chocolate, and forest floor with a finish that goes on and on. The purity and depth of the fruit is just insane. With the power of this wine I was surprised that it does not come across as overbearing at all. This was also fantastic with the slow cooked beef roast we had. We drank this next to a 2019 Vice Versa To Kalon which is the only other wine I have given a 100 pts too and the Realm was substantially better and the best wine I have ever drank.
  
  I coached baseball for 15 years and specialized in hitting. There are two components to hitting: the mechanics and timing. You can have a picture perfect swing and if your timing is off (to early or to late) you miss the ball. I feel like wine is a bit of the same.
  
  This wine has great mechanics as Realm takes its very best fruit from that year and concocts a magical potion overseen by a stellar line up. This night the timing was just perfect and the wine knocked it out of the park.
  
  This was my first time drinking this wine so a big thank you to my friend Dick for sharing this wonderful wine with us!

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• d.f.c Likes this wine: 96 points

  September 24, 2023 - A very good wine. Creamy and buttery taste, with a hint of chocolate and vanilla. Powerful structure and definitely full bodied. High alcohol level and high tannin. But the hype of this wine outweighted its actual performance; I have definitely drank better California cabs that are cheaper than this, for example, Bevan Sugarloaf Mt.

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• Geaux Tigers Likes this wine: 99 points

  August 23, 2023 - Napa 2023 - The Sequel; 8/23/2023-8/28/2023: PnP and this was ready from the start. Still a little youth showing but wow, what a wine. Red berry and blue fruit complimented by a chocolate note on the back end. Not overly complex, but fun to drink. Everything in harmony, no hard edges. WOTN at dinner.
  
  Much better than the ‘14s I’ve had which were more black fruited and heavy on the plums.
  
  Missed out on the Benjamin because I think this can get even better. Sadly, I will never know, this was my last.

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• cpl100n wrote: 98 points

  June 18, 2023 - Wow wow wow from the first sip what a wonderful fabulous wine to drink for Father’s Day

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Realm Cellars
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation The Absurd
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• Pending Delivery 4 (0%)
• In Cellars 1,299 (80%)
• Consumed 323 (20%)

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