2010 Next of Kyn No~4 Cumulus Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 96.5 points

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  5/24/2022 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Decanted over cocktails. This took 30-45 minutes to smooth out, then a rich, sublime body of dark fruit, chocolate wafer, raspberry jam, and earth. Continuing to drink beautifully.

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  4/28/2022 - dcwino wrote: 97 Points

  Mostly Domestic Wine Dinner (The Capital Grille at Tysons corner, VA): En magnum, intense nose displaying ripe but pure black fruit, blackberry pie, blackberry concentrated, black cherry, light caramel, baking spices and mineral. Exceptional concentration, layers upon layers of concentrated black fruit, dense yet pure and silky, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, nicely integrated tannins and a seamless long concentrated black fruit driven finish with baking spices at the end. This has settled down beautifully compare to the bottle from 2018. I am not the biggest fan of SQN wines but this actually has a very good balance and purity. Drinking nicely.

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  6/2/2021 - Francois Le Mouel Likes this wine: 99 Points

  Wow, what a complex wine! Leather, Rosemary, berries and spices on the nose and palate. Great and polished structure...but can still age for several more years. 15.5% abv and it feels like 13.5%.

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  4/16/2021 - SineQuaNon Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Great wine and great Californian! Unctuous, so rich, full+ bodied and oozes of everything non-French, if you will allow me that term, just super rich with perfectly ripened fruit to the edge of being overripe without crossing the border. Acidity surprisingly present and while not imbalanced, it unfortunately peeks through in a suboptimal way. It also struggles to hide its alcohol and it was served slightly too chilled even (~10C). From the flavours, it seems it sees less new oak than SQN, and I think it doesn’t serve it well, as I prefer the extra layer the oak ageing provides. If it does see more, it has been gobbled up by the wines richness. So, while this probably sounds mostly negative, it comes from having had super hugh expectations, that were probably not possible to meet, and the wine was in fact super luxurious and a huge joy, even if my nitpicking makes it sound differently😃

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  5/16/2020 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Brief decant before dinner. Deep purple with ruby rim. Wallops of blueberry liquer, dark chocolate, raspberry and sage. After some time in the glass the full-throttledness slightly mellowed and notes of thyme, lavender, raspberry emerged with an orange peel finish. Stunning wine which would benefit from a few more years in bottle. 96-98

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