Community Tasting Notes 71

• levicn wrote: 93 points

  May 29, 2022 - 醒酒约五个小时，中宝石红色，闻香有青椒，新鲜红黑果，烤面包，能闻到酒精感，入口酸度中高，酒液甜美，单宁紧致，颗粒细腻，有些抓人，青椒，黑加仑一类的黑果，还有果糖香味，喝起来感觉酒很年轻，很强壮，明显比前几款都要甜美，度把握得很好，酒体偏重，但没有侵略感，甜美愉悦，而不甜腻。余味是黑果和奶油面包。一款风格非常现代的酒，酒体饱满，香气浓郁，很好的平衡感，现在喝感觉还很新，远没有进入适饮巅峰期。

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• Cailles wrote: 94 points

  May 19, 2022 - Scarecrow - Complete Vertical 2003-2019 + 2x PNV: Non blind. Not decanted. It is obvious, why Scarecrow has the status it has. This is truly one of the very best Napa wines. A few observations: 1) The absolute highlight in almost all vintages is Scarecrow’s ability to combine aromatic density and intensity with absolute weightlessness. Very, very few Napa Valley wines achieve that kind of weightlessness - other than Harlan, probably no other wine that consistently over the vintages. More recent vintages are of course a touch less weightless (due to their youth) but are as light and airy as any wine in the respective vintage. 2) The wines have a lot of substance with a flavor profile with lots of red berries and floral notes complementing the dark Cabernet fruits, always lots of earthy minerality and some herbs and sensuous, luxurious oaky notes reminding me of Cheval Blanc. 3) While probably Bordeaux-esque for Napa standards in its appearance, it is still distinctively a Napa wine. In the early years, I even found a touch too much ripeness and some alcohol heat in the wines which doesn’t seem to be an issue in the vintages of this decade. 4) These wines all are great to drink, only the structured vintages of 2010, 2013 as well as the 2016 were not really open for business and would have needed decanting. All others showed great right out of the bottle.
  
  TN: Dark and dusty nose with lots of ripe dark fruit and minerality with some more earthy notes with time in the glass and a touch of truffles and tobacco which make it much more interesting. At first a touch less layered than the 03-05 in the same flight but then it more than catched up. No alcohol heat. With time more open and frehser. On the palate lots of ripe but not too ripe dark fruit, cassis, black currant, blue fruit, minerality and herbs. Not as layered and precise as the others. Not at absolutely weightless as the 04/05 but still without much weight. With time it gets more and more weightless. Ultra fine tannins, good freshness, nice creaminess, good length. Overall a great wine but short of exceptional missing a bit of substance and precision. 94+ pts. This was neck-on-neck with the 2005 for the wine of the flight (03-06).
  
  Decanting: Not decanted. This needed a bit of swirling to come out of its shell and seems to need an hour or two in the decanter.

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• G_H wrote: 93 points

  May 12, 2022 - A complete Scarecrow vertical: This for me was a bit of a culture shock with 04 and 05 exhibiting that beautiful weithless intensits, '06 was a much bolder and broader wine. Very structured with dark berries and cassis. I liked it and maybe if tasted next to some more opulent Napa Cabs, this would have appeared more elegant.

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• ewasowicz Likes this wine: 95 points

  November 25, 2021 - Nose:
  Taste: light tannins, dark liquorice, blackberries, very long finish.
  Had it with Thanksgiving dinner would be great with dark chocolate

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• pkouchu Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 26, 2021 - violet, cassis, blackberries, black cherries, leather, pencil shavings, sous bois, raspberry, baking spice and dark chocolate.
  
  Much lighter on the mouthfeel in terms of the dense fruit from other vintages of Scarecrow.
  
  Still possesses the finesse and silky mid-palate characteristics. Rather than the classic full throttle, this is elegant and very well balanced, fresher—with smooth tannins and a lengthy finish

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Scarecrow
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Rutherford
• UPC Code 015643481000

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• In Cellars 1,430 (56%)
• Consumed 1,138 (44%)

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