Community Tasting Notes 25

• Cablover1982 Likes this wine: 96 points

  January 6, 2024 - One of the best ‘17s out there. Pretty ruby/magenta color. Took about 3 hours to better express. Loads of sweet dark fruits to baking spices, gentle herbs and new leather. Chewy tannins, good acid on long finish.

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• johnpost wrote: 98 points

  December 24, 2023 - I have not rated a wine this high ever. I feel the wine as I drink it and see the grapes that have produced it. The finish is amazing. Well-rounded wine. Not a lot of fruit to hit you in the face with. A wine that would age another 10 years easily and still be wonderful. As I said, the finish is just flat-out. It is the best wine I have tried. I have over on the site over 3000 wines consumed, it is much more, and I say this is the best finish out of all of them. Please try this wine. And the years are fantastic try the 2013, it you can get your hands on it. or the 2015, what a treat.

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• Crunge Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 3, 2023 - Opened at cellar temp. Reticent nose giving up just slight hints of cocoa and red fruits. My wife and I felt the fruit and acid were in balance and found the wine to be an easy drinker, despite noticable tannins. Cocoa, fruit, and tobacco on the palate. We paired some with mozzarella and cheddar, and some with dark chocolate. While my wife and I both agreed that this wine would have been better without food, we disagree a bit on the fruit. I thought it leaned towards raspberry, cherry, and other red fruits, while my wife thought it was closer to the black fruit end of the spectrum. Regardless, we both enjoyed this and will have the last bottle in the next 2-4 years, this time without food.

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• jonh1 Likes this wine: 95 points

  August 23, 2023 - Delicious wine - on tasting (mid-2023), this was my favorite of the 2017-2020 vintages. Might be the year or it might just be that these wines benefit from 6+ years of age.
  
  Really nice acidity - on the high side compared to other years. Crushed Sweet Tart acid, in a good way. A bit of tomato leaf that blew off after a few minutes. Lovely wine.

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• ajrez Does not like this wine: 87 points

  August 1, 2023 - Love Memento Mori and the crew there but this vintage of the flagship (or possibly just this bottle) are not on par with every other MM bottle I’ve had. Felt disjointed, acid seemed out of balance and the tannins were awfully prevalent…. The harmony just wasn’t there. I will say, in spite of all that, still had a long finish! Might just be the vintage, I’ll keep buying more MM of course but this bottle didn’t perform.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Memento Mori
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• In Cellars 1,039 (74%)
• Consumed 358 (26%)

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