2016 Leah Jorgensen Cellars Blanc de Cabernet Franc Mae's Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 83.5 points

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  3/28/2021 - FelineAvenger wrote:

  I was a bit apprehensive about opening the 2016 after having read some of the more negative tasting notes here. I had bought a three-vintage (2016/17/18) vertical* of this wine last summer before reading the notes, but after having tasted the 2018 and 2019. Lets cut to the chase -- this wine is not the absolutely spectacular wine the 2018 is, but I don't think it's a bad wine as other notes suggest. Just, perhaps, ordinary. For sure, this vintage lacks the beauty and complexity of the 2018 (which is, to be sure, a hard act to follow, or precede in this case). That said, after having had one glass this afternoon, the rest of the bottle will be finished and enjoyed, not poured down the drain.
  
  While this wine is not a re-buy for me on its own, I do not regret buying the vertical. As a novice wine aficionado, I found it useful and enjoyable to have been able to compare the different vintages and evolution/refinement of Leah's winemaking method over time.
  
  *Technically the vertical being offered was two vintages, 2016 & 2017 but I bought a bottle of the 2018, which was still available, concurrently.

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  2/15/2020 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 82 Points

  Sunfish Cellars Burgundy & Oregon Tasting (Sunfish Cellars/I Nonni Minneapolis, MN): Sometimes wine makers should not experiment and this is one of those times. Bitter, earth and lacks any complexity. A mess of a wine.

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  12/31/2019 - mnuncorked Does not like this wine:

  Medium yellow color. Aromatic, developing aromas of yellow apple skin, honeycrisp apple, lemon, honeysuckle and chamomile. Dry (slight RS), medium body, medium+ acidity. Low but perceptible tannin. Medium+ intensity flavors of bruised yellow apple skin, lemon. Medium+ length finish.
  
  Oddly balanced with oxidized flavors.

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