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Rick 4 Wine wrote:

Friday, October 18, 2013 - This was the reserve cab at the winery. It's obviously a bit young but for $100 it's decidedly less well integrated than other wines for the price. They are very proud of their all estate grapes but most of their estate is on the valley floor. Most of their valley floor wines probably have too high of yields. This wine seems to be missing intelligent blending of different blocks...at least for the price. I have heard this has some mountain fruit, but I'm not sure there is much variety in the areas because there is still lingering astringent flavors like menthol and eucalyptus that overpower the fruit. Tannins are strong - especially mid palette -- with some heat that lingers. This wine will be better with age, but 2010 was a challenging year and this is not a good wine for the price.

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