Community Tasting Notes 18

• AGELVIS Likes this wine: 93 points

  September 29, 2023 - Three hour decant. Deep dark, yet vibrant, magenta color. Black cherry, blueberry, maple shortbread, and dried oregano. Dry, zesty palate. Firm, medium intensity tannins on the longish finish.
  
  Things flow together very well, but this is somewhat subdued overall. The nose is very nice, but not very expressive.

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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 95 points

  June 18, 2023 - Pnp'd into a decanter for 2 hours before taking over to HMC's for dinner. Tight cork in great shape, initially very dark purple in the glass, slightly muted nose that improves with every swirl of the decanter. Zero sediment in the bottle. Sampled over the first two hours and it was tight, high toned and slightly tannic. At dinner all this settled out into a well balanced, well made cabernet. The fruit still has some power and juice to it, the tannins have integrated and the acidity is perfectly matched. Primarily dark red/black fruited early on but later in the evening over 3-4 hours some nice blue fruit emerges and takes center stage. Glad I have one more bottle of this one left in the cellar. Kenefick to me, has always felt like it's lacked something over other vineyards in Napa, but not so with this wine in this vintage/bottle. This one is very nice and very, very good! Close to WOTN for me personally. No hurry on it either, it should hold here for a few more years, at least.

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• michigan dogs Likes this wine: 95 points

  June 11, 2023 - Better than my bottle from a year ago. This was excellent, black and blue fruits, smooth, balanced. Really drinking great right now. Some tasters believe you should drink Mike's cabs early, but this could not have been better.

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• Franken Berry wrote:

  January 16, 2023 - I threw this in a decanter for 30 minutes before back into the bottle and heading over to a neighborhood dinner party Saturday. Still was not ready to drink an hour later, so I put the cork back in, moved to something else, and came back to it an hour later.
  This was still rather closed, and not expressive. It opened a little after another hour, but not what I had hoped for.
  I rarely seem to be able to "time" these Mike Smith wines right
  They are often delicious within the first year of bottling but then go into an extended shut down period

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• TastesGoodToMe Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 6, 2023 - This wine was firing on all cylinders tonight. Bold yet nuanced. All black and blue fruit. Med Long finish. Teeth staining. Excellent

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2018
• Type Red
• Producer Quivet Cellars
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Kenefick Ranch
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• Pending Delivery 6 (1%)
• In Cellars 368 (75%)
• Consumed 116 (24%)

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