Community Tasting Note

ikkaariainen wrote:

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - Amazing still relatively young Napa cab, definitely my WOTN - greatly enjoyed last night with Kim and members of our dinner club at M5 in Charlotte NC. My first Cakebread and I had high expectations for this wine - it did not disappoint. Very dark, intense, big and bold, strong tannins with oak core and cellaring potential for many years to come. Needs to be decanted if opened at this point. Amazing bouquet with an explosion of dark stone fruit, leather, smoke and blackberry. Primary flavors dominated by classic Napa cab cassis with dark fruit, both blue- and blackberries present, black pepper and with further aeration leather and mocha developed. Too expensive to be a reasonable QPR but I highly recommend this wine, will definitely be looking for a case of this. With further maturation and development I see this wine eventually in the 93 - 94 point range.

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