August 3, 2023 - Drinking well right now -- excellent for food pairing --
March 9, 2022 - Ribena nose, faint herbal black current leaf, cinders, vanilla. Medium body soft powdery tannin, bright crunchy acidity, more sweet black current and berries, green herbal note on the finish. Very nice.
January 8, 2022 - Nose: strawberry
Taste: cherries and cream, herbaceous,
May 30, 2021 - Dry and firm, but there is a candylike sweetnes behind, that bothers me just a wee bit - seem to find it more often than not in the Catena-wine, that used to be so bright and clean. The future will shoiw, certainly, this wine will live 5+ years no problem.
October 6, 2020 - Never disappoints
September 26, 2020 - good value. can go another year at least
December 1, 2019 - Nice with paells
November 18, 2019 - Second bottle was good.
October 28, 2019 - Fun on the nose. Wasn't digging it because we were 3 bottles deep
October 18, 2019 - A nice dollop is spice in this cab franc. My first from this region and quite the head turner. Definitely bringing this to a California wine tasting.