Community Tasting Notes 41

• Cablover1982 Likes this wine: 96 points

  April 13, 2024 - Drank so well last night with pizzas made in the Ooni oven. Big, massive Cabernet. Lots of baked black fruits, toasted oak, hints of butterscotch, vanilla, baking spices, leather and slate. Loads of ripe tannins on long finish. Cheers!

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• Geaux Tigers Likes this wine: 94 points

  February 18, 2024 - Double decant, first sips at little over an hour. Sediment everywhere so the decant was definitely needed.
  
  Dark, black as night, purple rim. Viscous in the glass.
  
  Nose of floral perfume, crushed raspberries, mocha, hint of spice. Palate yielded a young sharp profile of red and black berries, somewhat muted and a short finish. Didn’t have that juiciness in the fruit. This is definitely young, needs more air, but very promising.
  
  This drank best after 3.5 hrs of air. That being said, it still needs sideways sleepy time. More juiciness and less youth after that much air, but the notes remained consistent. Still some puckering even with that much air.
  
  93 early, 96ish later. 94 overall, mostly due to youth.
  
  2026 earliest for the next cork.

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• wren460 Likes this wine: 95 points

  November 10, 2023 - Big, bold, hedonistic and on the very very end a little bit green that stoped this wine to be a 97 pts. Tasted along an incredible out of this world Maybach Materium 2019 that frankly its a better wine. This is like comparing Ferrari to Lambo really.....

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• AGELVIS Likes this wine: 97 points

  August 30, 2023 - Two hour decant. Very deep dark electric magenta color. Sautéed black cherry, dark plum, black walnut, yellow Twinkie, violet, and subtle mocha. Very smooth, slightly tongue drying palate, with nice, dusty acidity. Full tannins on the longish finish.
  
  It’s been a year since my last bottle and this has improved ever so slightly. It can still handle a 3+ hour decant with no trouble. Wonderful overall texture. Same winemaker as Arkenstone (Sam Kaplan).

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• Cablover1982 Likes this wine: 97 points

  April 14, 2023 - Heck of a wine. Deep purple color, opaque as hell. Going on 2.5 hr decent. Perfumed and mesmerizing nose of blue and purple fruits with dusty terroir! Hints of some spices, fresh flowers, firewood, scorched earth and some bramble. Substantial mouthfeel, bold, good acidity, grainy tannins on nice long finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Vangone
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Estate
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• In Cellars 393 (70%)
• Consumed 161 (29%)

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