Community Tasting Notes 5

• jmspdx Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 19, 2014 - I think if you opened this wine before this year or last, you may have missed the boat. Our '05, stored at 55-65 since we got it, is drinking beautifully now. Kalamata olive, black cherry, tobacco, with medium acidity and tannin. It has become very complex with age.

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• Rcorrao wrote:

  November 4, 2011 - Down the drain. Corked.

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• JFish wrote:

  March 28, 2011 - Popped and poured. Color was dark red. Nose showed some reductive funk, which I like. There was some slight tar/burnt rubber that came through on the palate with the medium weight darker berry fruit. The whole cluster had an added dimension as compared to the Purisma but which I would not call vegetal or stemmy in a green way. Interesting and enjoyable wine.

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• NotNYC wrote:

  October 3, 2010 - lighter than expected -well rounded. Nothing exceptional but a solid everyday. Time served this well.

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• Mike Stoneking wrote: 89 points

  September 22, 2008 - This wine had a light color and a nose of pomegrante and raspberry. The wine has the vegetal signs of the whole cluster, a bit pronounced at this point and perhaps another year or so in the bottle will smooth these out so they are not so forward. The wine is lighter on the palate than their Purisima Grenache.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Beckmen Vineyards
• Varietal Grenache
• Designation Whole Cluster
• Vineyard Purisima Mountain Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Coast
• Appellation Santa Ynez Valley

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• In Cellars 9 (11%)
• Consumed 70 (89%)

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