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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 19, 2023 - Late decision to pour this one at the end of our dinner and into our card playing/dessert time. This wine is consistently good across bottles. Dark red/black fruit to start...really opens up over 60-90 minutes. Smooth and quite integrated. Enjoyed by all 4 of us and still about one third of the bottle under a Repour stopper that I am trying out for purely scientific reasons, on a 2nd bottle for a 2nd night. I can't imagine it has anything left to give, but I have to try! The only thing that stops this wine from scoring higher is the limitations of the vineyard itself. These are very fine grapes and this wine is superbly made but it just feels like it's limited at this point. Not enough complexity? Not enough layers? I don't know. Hard to argue with scores of 94-96, isn't it? I'm splitting hairs, I know. Recent library sales have offered these at basically twice the original price and in my estimation that would not be good qpr. At their original selling price you are handsomely rewarded.

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• iamandyc Likes this wine:

  February 3, 2023 - Agree with AGELVIS notes on this wine. Drank really well with a short decant and developed more flavors with air. Another really nice cab from the 2016 vintage.

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• AGELVIS Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 5, 2022 - One hour decant. Nearly opaque magenta core. Blackberry, plum, cocoa, dark raspberry jelly, and burnt toffee shortbread on the nose. Very dry, smooth palate, with chalky acidity. Firm, lower intensity tannins on the longish finish.
  
  The nose is pretty great (confectionery/fruit forward, but not extracted), but the palate is more tart/sour than it used to be. This is my second bottle with this palate, so this must be a phase (I hope). I’ll try to wait a year to see if this rebounds.

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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 95 points

  October 13, 2022 - Been almost 2 years since I last opened one of these. Pnp'd into a decanter at HMCs and enjoyed before and after dinner. Same score as the bottle from 2 years ago but for different reasons. This still can be drunk from the pnp but deepens and improves over 2+ hours of air. It adds weight and depth all around. Tannins are softer, smoother but the fruit (dark red/black) is still quite powerful. I wonder now if a much longer decant at this stage would have upped it even another point or two? Only one bottle of the '16 left in the cellar to play with....do I dare risk it?

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• AGELVIS wrote: 91 points

  September 23, 2022 - 90 min decant. Deep dark electric magenta color. Black cherry, blackberry, raspberry compote, chocolate malt, juniper, primrose, chestnut, and cornmeal on the nose. Smooth, dry, somewhat sour palate. Zesty, mouth coating acidity. Firm tannins. Longish finish.
  
  I’ll likely PNP or slow ox the next bottle, although that’s probably not the problem. Something was out of character here. This had great complexity, but missing its normal fruit forward decadence. I’m hoping/thinking this was an off bottle.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Stone the Crows
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Three Twins Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• Pending Delivery 9 (2%)
• In Cellars 239 (59%)
• Consumed 158 (39%)

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