Picked this up a few weeks after the winery opened and forgot about it. Nobody likes Gavin newsome, so some people were rooting against the wine, but damn give the winemaker some love. Never would have guessed 11 years old. So primary and powerful, high acid and bright fruit. Coffee abounds. If you told me this was a 2019 I would believe you. Spectacular, and wished I visited this winery again since their opening.
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A chance find in my cellar. I stumbled over it while making room in my cellar for the latest BDX arrivage. Never added this wine to my cellar and therefore it was a surprise. Usually I don’t like this kind of wine, but I have to admit that this is really very well made and the proceeding age probably has softened its heavy character a little bit. Still very full with a dominant alcoholic sweetness and a wagon load of fruitiness. But it succeeds in managing all this to a sort of roundness that is typical of great wine. One or two bottles of such heavy and alcohol-loaded wines is enough for me per year, but this one is a very worthy representative.
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12/31/2023 - jlmaz Likes this wine: 94 Points
Buckley's wine club selection.
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10/6/2023 - cblinstrub Likes this wine: 97 Points
Picked this up a few weeks after the winery opened and forgot about it. Nobody likes Gavin newsome, so some people were rooting against the wine, but damn give the winemaker some love. Never would have guessed 11 years old. So primary and powerful, high acid and bright fruit. Coffee abounds. If you told me this was a 2019 I would believe you. Spectacular, and wished I visited this winery again since their opening.
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9/29/2023 - The Raven wrote: 90 Points
Very nice wine, but you have to let it breathe before it comes into its own.
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8/1/2023 - LIE-user wrote: 93 Points
A chance find in my cellar. I stumbled over it while making room in my cellar for the latest BDX arrivage. Never added this wine to my cellar and therefore it was a surprise.
Usually I don’t like this kind of wine, but I have to admit that this is really very well made and the proceeding age probably has softened its heavy character a little bit. Still very full with a dominant alcoholic sweetness and a wagon load of fruitiness. But it succeeds in managing all this to a sort of roundness that is typical of great wine.
One or two bottles of such heavy and alcohol-loaded wines is enough for me per year, but this one is a very worthy representative.
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2/9/2023 - amymreeves wrote:
Opening on a Thursday night after a rough week at work. Hope it’s good!
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