Community Tasting Notes 15

• Bakerbd Likes this wine: 95 points

  March 6, 2024 - Decanted for 5 hrs. Violets, cassis, cigar box, very fine tannin, powerful, long

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• RMundell Likes this wine: 98 points

  January 23, 2024 - 6 hr decant. Drinking very good.

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• rrasmuss wrote: 99 points

  November 23, 2023 - Mint, cassis and blue fruit.
  
  Opened for 5 hours prior to drinking. As good as Napa gets. Aside from Harlan and Macdonald not sure there is better in Napa.

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• MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 98 points

  November 4, 2023 - Our groups last night at Blackberry Farms was capped off by two wines in which I had been thinking about for awhile.
  
  19 Kinsman wines I've been told are approachable early so this bottle made the trip to Tennessee. So well in advance of dinner, Rhadamanthus was prepared by the sommeliers with a double splash decant and held at cellar temp along side the 2nd largest private collection in the country.
  
  Rhadamanthus was presented along side another selection, this time off the restaurants list. 2001 Martha's Vineyard.
  
  I got to say I have a love hate relationship with Napa. I love to taste them now but only like to drink them with significant age. I'm fortunate enough to have these in the cellar but "god willing" I'll drink these in a window with secondary and tertiary flavors. Nigel's wines have some of the most compelling fruit from the best terroirs in the Valley. The balance, structure and energy are all there to reward those with the cellar space to store these for the long haul.
  
  As a side note, even the 2001 Martha's was young. In fact AG's recent 2022 review marks the drinking window as 2021-2041 and I totally agree.
  
  98+
  
  19 Bedrock Cuvee Karatas
  19 Kinsman Eades Rhadamanthus
  01 Heitz Martha’s Vineyard
  21 Sadie Family Kokerboom

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• tyfabes Likes this wine: 99 points

  October 21, 2023 - Decanted for about 4 hours before pouring back in the bottle to serve.
  
  Long story short, Napa simply doesn't get any better than this. Rhad is my 'last meal' wine and is everything I look for in a red wine. I normally hate the word hedonistic when describing wine, but there's simply no better way to characterize this bottle. I savored every sip and it continued to get better in the glass over the 2 hours we drank this. Tons of blue fruit, graphite, plush tannins, and a wonderful dance between structure, depth, acid, and fruit. Nobody manages tannins better than Nigel, and it's what puts this bottle completely over the top.
  
  I hesitated opening this, as it's bordering on infanticide, but with sufficient air, this was singing and I don't regret it one bit! I managed to come across a few additional bottles, so couldn't resist checking in on this, but will tuck my remaining stash far back into the cellar and out of arms reach for the next few years.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type Red
• Producer Kinsman Eades
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Rhadamanthus
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Diamond Mountain

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• Pending Delivery 25 (3%)
• In Cellars 788 (92%)
• Consumed 42 (5%)

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