2018 Vice Versa Cabernet Sauvignon BBS Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 98 points

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  1/22/2021 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Nose: [58°] Purple flowers with an amazing earthiness and forest floor, very pristine and natural with pleasant undergrowth. Lots of ripe black and really dark red fruits. Clean soft bark skin and soft river minerals. With some time, the pours from the bottle has this creaminess from the nose like macerated fruit with some sort of cream (not vanilla though, I don't know how to explain it).
  
  Palate: [58°] Same great earthiness and forest floor from the nose (thinking like deep earth with rich pure dark soils), a lacing of bitter shrubs, bitter minerals, steeped black tea and some tree bark. All of this is outlined by really dark red and a touch bit of dark blue fruit.
  
  Attributes: Really dark ruby. Dry with medium-plus amounts of grippy yet fine tannin. Medium to medium-plus body with medium to medium-plus acidity (really well integrated). Great finish of about 20-22+ seconds.
  
  Thoughts: The flavors of a natural forest floor and rich earthiness prevails beautifully here. The earthiness really punches through here with the dark fruit and leaves a finish of bitter dark minerals, pleasantly bitter oak and soil. For the wine nerds like myself who may wanna know this: having this at cellar temp (55°-58°) has more pronounced flavors of minerals - not by a whole lot but imagine drinking this out of a stone chalice. With just a few degrees more (as of now, it's ~61°), the minerals calm down drastically but not to the point where it completely goes away and the flavors of earth really stand out much more. Very tasty bottling and quite a nice surprise. 97-98
  
  Other notes: Bordeaux glass. Slow-ox'ed in bottle at cellar temp ~55° for the duration of consumption over 5.5 hours, recommend drinking straight from the bottle and let it decant at cellar temp over the course of consumption.

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