Community Tasting Notes 10

• EdwardsCellar Likes this wine: 90 points

  December 10, 2022 - smokey round black fruits. mellow dark fruits paired nicely with split pea soup (with smoked ham).

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• Ortiz Brown Likes this wine: 89 points

  October 1, 2022 - This wine features a nose of dark blue fruit, cocoa, leather, graphite, and oak. On the palate more of that dark fruit, with plum, baking spices, oak, and that lead pencil element. Nice acidity balances that extraction. Rich and robust if not particularly complex. As others have said, the wine opens up after 90-120 minutes, so a quick decant is suggested.

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• TPB Likes this wine: 90 points

  January 4, 2022 - Always love this wine good price point for an elegant merlot. Nice balance between fruit and oak - a bit of tar on the finish; smooth and enjoyable. Better second day after opens a bit.

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• EMTAME wrote: 88 points

  December 1, 2021 - This takes a while to get going, but is more pleasant after about 90 minutes. Lots of dark plum, some earthiness, and baking cocoa on the palate. Fairly straightforward, with a slightly clipped finish. Not bad, but not a repeat buy for me in this vintage.

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• mwtrotter3 Likes this wine: 91 points

  September 30, 2021 - This is a dark, thick, inky kind of Merlot, firm and intense on the palate. Up to the light, you can barely see through it, and it leaves you thinking of chocolate shavings, wood chips, blackberries just before they’re fully ripe, a touch of rhubarb jam, and the earthiness that just makes you want to have another sip.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Freemark Abbey
• Varietal Merlot
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Code 9073987026975

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• In Cellars 156 (38%)
• Consumed 250 (62%)

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