Community Tasting Notes 12

• gteran76 Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 21, 2024 - This was my wine selection to celebrate my 24th anniversary in this great country, in other words, I'm celebrating my 24th birthday!
  
  Having had this wine a few years ago at the winery and giving it 100pts (I have given a perfect score to only 2 wines in my life) I was expecting more out of this magnum… maybe 102pts…
  
  Anyways, here is the experience today, the wine is medium plus, during the first 10-15 min it was a bit acidic and tannic with green pepper notes and smoke, by minute 30+ it came together, the acidity settled down and the greenish notes went away, very good harmony, and the best part was the super long and persistent finish.
  
  100pts wine, not today. There are perfect bottles of wine but there are not perfect wine. Many factors play a role on giving out a perfect score, company, food, environment, “the moon”, you name it. So today I was let down for creating unrealistic expectations…

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• enthusiastic_amateur Likes this wine: 91 points

  August 31, 2020 - Sweet red fruits - blackberries, blueberries, black raspberries. Brown sugar. Fine tannin on front, full body in mid-palate, medium finish. Still has some green on the finish, could use a few more years of aging.

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• Kevnzworld wrote: 95 points

  July 1, 2020 - 1 hour decant.
  Good balance and structure for a 16 yo . Dark fruit, mocha with some plum . There’s a hint of secondary flavors, roasted coffee. Drinks like a better first growth 2003 Bordeaux . Ripe. Some eucalyptus on the finish which is very Cali like.
  We decided that there was something missing but we can’t identify what

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• gteran76 Likes this wine: 100 points

  December 30, 2019 - Then when we though the "party was over" Justin poured more juice in the fourth glass that was mysteriously empty until this point. I asked him not to reveal what it was so we could guess... To me it was a super complex, multidimensional and beautifully aged wine, being here it must be a Vérité wine but which one? I thought it was a 2004 La Muse because of the delicate notes and subtle combination of berries, chocolate, caramel and coffee beans. To my girlfriend it was a 2007 La Joile, you will have to read her review to see why. The reality is that we both had something right. It was a 2004 Vérité La Joie! Beautiful and what I will call a perfect wine 100 PTS for me!

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• glevernois wrote: 90 points

  December 25, 2016 - It wasabi, but no where near our expectations after the tasting at the vineyard...

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Vérité
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation La Joie
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma County

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• In Cellars 328 (66%)
• Consumed 164 (33%)

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