2012 Favia Cerro Sur

Community Tasting Notes (35) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  5/12/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Had to have a 3rd bottle for the family as we ordered takeout with Andrew and Kala for dinner on Mother's Day.
  
  Tight at the pnp into a decanter but over 3 hours this one really came around. It really opened up and rounded out and clearly has the most life left ahead of it. It clearly had the most acidic backbone of all 3 wines tonight yet was in balance with the strong '12 Cab Franc and Cab fruit. This one is always a fav of mine. If there's one thing you can take from all 3 bottles tonight, it's the importance of air. Without air, you are left with wines that are 3-4 points less than what they could be.......

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  3/17/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 95 Points

  My last bottle of my 2nd stash of this one, wanted to share one with HMC.....haven't gone into my 3rd stash yet.
  
  Decanted 2+ hours and enjoyed over 3+ more with HMC and Carol. All the notes of my last bottle, maybe just a point less. This one came into balance much earlier on and settled in its 95 point slot quickly before fading a point at the end.
  
  Stewed fruit initially, gone within an hour or two of air and replaced by complexity on the nose and palate. Great cab franc elements (62%) blended with the cab sav (38%). Consistent results within a point or so from bottle to bottle and lot to lot. One of my fav blends in all of Napa.

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  3/3/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 97 Points

  So.....loved this one so much, I picked up 2 more bottles at auction over the past year. This is the first bottle of the new stash....OMG, it just keeps getting better.
  
  Everything the last note says from nearly a year ago, plus......with 3-4 hours of air, this is dense, deep, structured, juicy, integrated, balanced and powerful. If anything, there is a hint of alc overriding everything, but it's so good, I'm willing to overlook that warm feeling in the back of my throat......a 12 yo wine that reeks of hedonism and power? I love that.........

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  12/1/2023 - Rramey Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Deep garnet in color. Bell pepper and spice. straightforward nothing big on the back.

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  7/9/2023 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Blew through my original 3 pack of this one back in 2020. Haven't had another until today with gteran76 and his SO.....
  
  Decanted 2+ hours then back into the bottle to take to our fav steakhouse, Chops. Pnp'd at the table to dark garnet color in the glass and a wonderful cab franc dominant nose of perfumed red fruit....the palate notes are pretty much identical to my first bottle from 6/20 except for it now being just a tad more aged/integrated/smooth. In a great drinking window right now but clearly can go for a few more years. No green notes noted to this bottle at all. I guess I've just been lucky with these? Thoroughly enjoyed by all at the table.

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