February 28, 2024 - 99 POINT WINE
Dark ruby in color with a short reddish rim. Not showing much age.
Fruity nose with cedar and chocolates notes.
Full bodied and elegant, soft and smooth.
Dry on the palate with medium-plus acidity.
Showing black currants, plums, cedar, cooked cherries, spices, light vanilla, tobacco leaf, herbs, dark chocolates, peppercorn, pencil lead and dark coffee.
Long finish with fine grained tannins and tangy cherries.
This is a delicious Napa Cabernet Sauvignon based Bordeaux blend. Nicely balanced and peaking now.
Rich and fruit forward with nice complexity and a great mouthfeel.
Good right out of the bottle, and better after 2 hours of airtime.
Robert Parker 99 points. Wine Spectator 94 points.
Will continue to drink beautifully in the next 5 to 7 years.
Good by itself or with food, like a nice piece of steak.
A blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Cabernet Franc, 8% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot.
14.8% alcohol by volume.
93 points.
$350.
February 10, 2024 - Two hour decant. Fragrant. Black cherry, blackberries, chocolate and oak. Rich fruit, full bodied and structured with finesse. Good balance, polished tannins and a long finish. Paired fine with ribeye though it might have been better as a sipper with charcutier.
December 26, 2023 - Nice color. Tasted like a Washington state cab. Tannic. More life in it to go. Had with Christmas dinner
December 24, 2023 - Last bottle 🥲. It was great as were the others
November 21, 2023 - Elegant and clean. Decanted for 2 hours at 65 degrees F. Dark fruits, particularly cassis on the nose. Background of vanilla and baking spice as well. Medium minus bodied. Medium + tannins. Medium acidity. After dinner (we are now going on 3 hours of decanting), well-balanced. I started the evening thinking it was a bit hot, but with time, the wine shows itself to be winner!
November 4, 2023 - Rich and creamy and chocolaty, typical of a Napa Cab. Not my preferred taste. Full bodied, high in alcohol and tannins. But lacks the finishing touch. A wine that would appeal to supermarket-level wine crowd.
June 25, 2023 - See prior notes - getting even better in the bottle. Tons of deep red fruit and a lasting 40 second smooth finish. Drinking beautifully
March 24, 2023 - Classic Pritchard hill taste. Tasting well right now but can imagine this will age well for many more years.
November 23, 2022 - Really aging gracefully and with ease. Smooth tannins, mocha, dark fruits and some light floral notes. 40 second finish that was full bodied. Did not decant - very little sediment - and it opened beautifully in the glass
January 31, 2022 - Deeply colored with a restrained nose showing cassis overlayed with hints of menthol and toffee. Very supple in the mouth, the fruit here is just ripe, with enough acidity to frame it, with soft tannins. The wine reveals layer upon layer of flavors and a remarkable interplay of fruit with minerality with acidity, like a symphony on the palate — a fascinating and almost intellectual wine. Today I would rate this 92, but I can see it hitting 95 at maturity, probably around 2028 or 2030.
Bottle treatment: I drank half the bottle last night right from the cellar, but the wine was on the cool side and closed. So I left the rest on the counter and revisited it with dinner tonight, 24 hours to slowly breath. This made a huge positive difference. My TN was from day two.