2013 Pott Wine Cabernet Sauvignon The Arsenal Greer Vineyard
Community Tasting Note
csimm wrote:
Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - Two days ago I had a bottle of this wine and it was flawed. It showed some VA funk and heavy wet mulch notes. I HAD to open another bottle to see if I was in for a string of disappointments. Not so!
This bottle was just how I remember this wine from over a year ago. Previous notes apply. A complete and utterly captivating wine through and through. The awesome purple and ripe red berry core fruit was perfectly balanced and seamless. A frame of Rutherford dust and wonderfully sweet tannins held everything in place. An expensive tasting wine to be sure.
I'll hold remaining bottles for another year just to see where it goes, but this wine is drinking great as a PnP. I didn't decant; it didn't really need it. Yet I think this stands to fill out even more after mid-2018/2019. One of the best Pott wines to date. Too bad Greer isn't under Pott's namesake label anymore. 98++ points this go-around, with a potential perfect score in a year or two.
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Comment posted by ageverett:
7/19/2017 8:06:00 AM - Good to hear that the other bottle was just an aberration and this wine is still a beauty.
Comment posted by csimm:
7/19/2017 8:36:00 AM - Absolutely. I was bummed (pissed is more like it) and worried that a few of these I found at auction were all going to be bad (compromised wine providence is always the chance you take I suppose with auctions). But this one was an auction bottle too and it was fantastic. I have other 750s and 1.5s from Aaron directly that I'm sure will be fine as well. Really a stunning bottle of wine in my opinion. It just has that "complete" feel about it.
Comment posted by WineForRob:
7/19/2017 10:28:00 AM - Great news. I hate that uneasy feeling when one wine goes bad and you have several more. Im in that situation with the 14 Quilceda Creeks as my first one was cooked. Are you by chance on the Greer mailing list?
Comment posted by csimm:
7/19/2017 2:02:00 PM - Hi Rob. I did not get a 2013 allocation from Greer (because I did not purchase in 2012). Perhaps with 2014's yields higher, I might be able to purchase this time around. It would be fun to compare the Arsenal and Greer in 2013 side by side.