Community Tasting Note

csimm wrote:

Friday, April 30, 2021 - 3 days in Napa: Arkenstone, Memento Mori, Maxem, The French Laundry, Christopher Tynan, Kinsman, Harlan, Vice Versa, Accendo, Fairchild, Macdonald, and a truckload of others (Napa): Locked and loaded is most apropos here. Packed, stacked, but not yet cracked, this 2018 M7 is fortified with tense and quivering black cherry, bitter chocolate, and rock notes that stubbornly tell you they are still building their empire and don’t want any company now and for a while. The hints of promise are so enticing, but they stop halfway through and halt their march right at the precipice of the mid-palate cliff.

Notably darker that the 2019 M7, this 2018 was akin to some of the LPVs I’ve had in the past that are so spun up that even though you know there is greatness beneath the covers, it’s lights out for a while until it gets the requisite sleepy time. Revisit in 2026+.

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