2014 BRAND Napa Valley Petit Verdot Special Edition

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  2/25/2021 - sirpat00 wrote: 90 Points

  Virtual tasting with proprietor Jim Bean. A one-off assemblage of Prichard Hill Petit Verdot. Vegetal and floral with an intense mix of dark and red cherry fruit. After a bit some savoury spices popping up. On the palate lots of acidity with what I perceived to be slightly green tannin. Also a lack of mid-palate tension. I guess more a nerdy wine, not really what you would call hedonistic.

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  12/18/2019 - Millennial Drinkers wrote: 91 Points

  Deep and dark purplish ruby red. A bit closed off to start with a touch of dark red fruits, and cinnamon. Medium plus acidity with balanced tannins and body. Red berries on the palate with a hint of spice. Medium plus and lingering finish. Drink till 2030.

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  12/6/2019 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points

  Tasted double blind. I’ve had this wine back in March and it was fairly muted and closed. Just 9 months later this bottle was much more open and ready for business. Still, there is more potential for this and revisiting this in a few years time would be great. There are not many 100% Petit Verdots out there. 93+ for now but can certainly reach the elusive 95+ point category once mature.
  
  TN: Dark, cool black fruit with herbs and vegetal aromas on the medium expressive nose. More interesting palate with cool blue, red and dark berries, spices, dark wet soil, hints of crushed rocks. With time the fruit became more intense, precise and changed its profile completely to red berries (strawberries). Compared to other Napas this young this showed first tertiary aromas which increased complexity a tad. Fairly precise and with a good balance, fine-grained but noticeable tannins and a very good 2014 acidity.
  
  Decanting: PnPed, improved in the glass. I would decant it for at least two hours.

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  12/2/2019 - sirpat00 wrote: 93 Points

  Tasted blind from decanter. Intense, heavily extracted nose of ripe fruit. Some tobacco on the side. Fruity and juicy palate, but unconvincing overall - or at least not to my liking. Given that I guessed this 2007, aging seems to progress at high speed here.

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  3/21/2019 - Cailles wrote:

  A Bunch of Young Napa Wines & Three Special Treats: Out of competition. Special bottling with 100% Petit Verdot from Brand’s Petit Verdot grapes from Pritchard Hill. Spontaneous pop n’ pour at the end of the evening and sadly the wine was fairly closed. It had its moments where it showed all the stuffing, with various red and dark fruit, stems, spices, cola, mint. A wall of fine-grained tannins, good freshness but this would really needed 5 or 10 hours in the decanter. I would love to revisit it properly one day. Hard to judge but it could be great (95+).

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