Community Tasting Note

Jazz Nut wrote:

Monday, October 22, 2018 - Shared with good friends over dinner of grilled steaks, and vegetables. Served alongside a 2012 Nickel & Nickel Tench Vineyard Cabernet. This is a classic Mike Smith wine; pure fruit, integrated oak, velvet finish, adequate acidity (but I think the power of the fruit is actually still front and center at this point). This wine is a huge mouthful of ripe blueberries, blackberries, with campfire s'mores. I rarely get a graham cracker+vanilla+sweet Ceylon cinnamon note in wine, but this certainly had that or the sweeter Teddy Grahams in the background. Slight minerality and spice in the long finish. I still think this wine is quite primary, though there is no judgement in drinking now, since it's so delicious. I'll plan to keep the rest I have for a bit, and certainly the 2016 vintage once it arrives. I would love to see this wine with 2-4 more years of bottle age, but doubt I'll have the patience.

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