2014 Fait-Main Cabernet Sauvignon Sleeping Lady Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 94.2 points

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  4/28/2023 - Bob23 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Very solid and impeccable balance, but seemed a little muted tonight.

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  10/31/2022 - eschuldt wrote: 92 Points

  Agree this is on the decline. Somewhat disjointed.

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  9/2/2022 - ajrez wrote: 92 Points

  Losing steam. Probably was better 2 years ago, a few years left but losing depth and complexity. Still drinkable and enjoyable but illustrative of the vintage. 92 with downside after 2023.

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  5/29/2020 - blarmston Likes this wine: 94 Points

  From a bottle opened on Wednesday evening.
  
  This showed a;ugh;y better than my last one from 13 months ago. While that bottle seemed to lack. Bit of life, perhaps in a shutdown phase, this was ready to go with two hours in the decanter.
  
  I didn’t get any of the mid palate flabbiness that MSU experienced with his last bottle. It was nicely balanced, exhibiting a more feminine tone that benoit’s LPV bottling also from FM.
  
  I am once again impressed with how he handles this vineyard, and will be eagerly looking forward to the 2018 releases...
  
  An easy 94 now with slight upside. Wish I had more of this...

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  10/11/2019 - msuwine wrote: 93 Points

  This wine is more shallow and diffuse than it was two years ago (10/17 - 95 points), in a way that could be the vintage, the vineyard, age, or randomness. Whatever the reason, I liked it a lot less this time around. Dark purple in color; medium in body; nose of blueberry, espresso, and leather. Tastes of black cherry, cocoa powder, leather, and anise, with a somewhat sour and brief finish. 14.1% alcohol.
  
  I followed this for several hours, hoping for it to find another gear, but it seemed stuck somewhere in neutral, if not tilting backwards. The main issue was a lack of mid-palate intensity, which resulted in a flat wine - plush, yes, but a little hollow, too. Drink in next year or so.

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