2011 Larkmead Vineyards Napa Valley Red Wine

Community Tasting Notes (30) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  5/28/2022 - lewisrise wrote: 90 Points

  Medium garnett with a medium intensity developing aromas of raspberry blackberry violet Cedar mushroom eucalyptus and a little funk. The cedar and eucalyptus predominate with the raspberry close behind. This wine has high alcohol, medium acidity, medium plus tannins, and a medium finish. This wine has developing flavors of raspberry, blackberry, violets, cedar, nutmeg, coffee, cedar, mushrooms. This is a good wine that can be drunk now in for the next five years.

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  7/28/2021 - bmartz1 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Fruit is balanced, still shorter on the finish. Red leather and earth. Stil punching

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  5/7/2021 - VinoGeeko wrote: 91 Points

  After a double-decanting, I tasted it at 15 min, at 1 hour, and at 3 hours. At first, I was thinking it just needed some time to open up. But at the 1-hour mark, I decided something else was to blame. I thought (and partly still think) that the bottle was just a Bordeaux blend in its "dumb period" - I mean talk about muted aromatic notes — I don't think there was one obvious chemical/odor in the nose. But after reading the other reviews on CT, I think its either just a meh bottle or its over the hill (in its case, an anthill). Overall, slightly disappointed. Then again, I guess, now I know the reason that there is little demand at auction for 2011 Napas.

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  2/21/2021 - MPLehman wrote:

  It had gone bad in the cellar

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  3/6/2020 - bmartz1 wrote:

  A little short but not abnormally so. Less fruit. Well developed

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