Decanted for about an hour. Lovely nose of berry fruit, smoke, cedar, dry spice. Palate follows nose with mouth-watering tannins, fruit coming forward a bit, long finish ending in dry tannins. Nicely balanced, great as we had it with steak Florentine. Drinking very well, very approachable, I would say drink over the next 2-3 years - it won't get any better than it is now. Decant always a good idea of course.
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Decanted an hour before drinking. Previous bottle was indeed flawed. This has big cassis and blackberry nose and mouth, fairly high acid, tannins balance the fruit well. No hurry to drink, but it's certainly ready when you are...
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4/13/2019 - tautlinehitch Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted for about an hour. Lovely nose of berry fruit, smoke, cedar, dry spice. Palate follows nose with mouth-watering tannins, fruit coming forward a bit, long finish ending in dry tannins. Nicely balanced, great as we had it with steak Florentine. Drinking very well, very approachable, I would say drink over the next 2-3 years - it won't get any better than it is now. Decant always a good idea of course.
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7/30/2018 - tautlinehitch Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted an hour before drinking. Previous bottle was indeed flawed. This has big cassis and blackberry nose and mouth, fairly high acid, tannins balance the fruit well. No hurry to drink, but it's certainly ready when you are...
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7/10/2018 - mliszt wrote: 95 Points
POP AND POUR AND SMILE SMOOOOOOOTH AND FABULOUS RIGHT NOW
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3/6/2017 - catlady Likes this wine: 91 Points
Tasted alongside a mountain cab from another Sonoma producer. At the same price point this one won the contest.
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4/21/2016 - mliszt Likes this wine: 95 Points
SMOOTH AS COULD BE AND WILL ONLY GET BETTER
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