Community Tasting Notes 6

• ELH wrote: 91 points

  November 14, 2022 - Blend of Syrah 55%, Mourvedre 25%, and Grenache 20%. Heavy and dense, and somewhat vanilla\oaky.

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• kwarning8@gmail.com Likes this wine: 92 points

  July 31, 2022 - After a 2 hour double decant drinking very well just now. Will be better in few years.

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• yaCellar Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 5, 2022 - Big SMG. The extra oak has really beefed up this bad boy, but without tasting like an oak cocktail. Solid with pizza.

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• Crunge Likes this wine: 92 points

  August 14, 2021 - I like Booker. Plenty of flavor, perfectly drinkable even young, and I love the Rhone varietals.
  
  Having had several of the 22's, both across Booker's different blends and vintages, I'm sticking with the non-22's. There's just too much oak in the 22's for my taste. I'll have to let my remaining 22's age for a number of years and hope the oak mellows.
  
  This wine had blackberries and other dark fruits, plenty of pepper, and a nice undercurrent of slate. I would have loved it if the vanilla were not so prominent over everything else.
  
  Why the 92? My wife thought it was amazing and not too heavy on the oak.

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• OaktownRush Likes this wine:

  June 26, 2021 - Nose of Tar, asphalt, wet asphalt, cinnamon — there’s a little more nuance out of the gate here. Still a decent amount of oak but the savoriness is balancing out here. Fruit preserves, blood orange take hold towards the finish. Higher tannins here. It drinks well now but I think this should evolve into something pretty unique.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2018
• Type Red
• Producer Booker Vineyard
• Varietal Red Rhone Blend
• Designation Vertigo 22
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Central Coast
• Appellation Paso Robles

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• Pending Delivery 3 (1%)
• In Cellars 421 (71%)
• Consumed 173 (29%)

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