2018 Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon La Verdad Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 96.6 points

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  3/2/2024 - cab_fran Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Birthday wine with family in Kentucky while enjoying a Malone’s steak dinner. This Carter LPV was very, very good: enticing nose of sweet vanilla with vibrant red and black fruit. Palate was similar and with a long, satisfying finish. The wine seemed ready to go at year 6-7, hard to know if these will improve with more bottle age or even decant.

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  6/1/2023 - sean7711 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  2018 LPV Showdown - Carter La Verdad vs. Vice Versa
  
  Opened these on Thursday to celebrate my promotion to partner at my company. Overall, I preferred the Vice Versa a bit more. Carter was a touch hotter, and just a bit more finesse in the VV bottling. Of course, we are splitting hairs as both bottles were excellent, and LPV continues to be one of my favorite single vineyard expressions.

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  3/25/2023 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote: flawed

  Celebrating age (FermentedBeast's Lair): Nose of sour raspberry and cranberry with stones. The stone note is really pronounced. Sour oak and a cork scent, something like wet cardboard as well.
  
  On the palate showed some dark streaks of graphite, fruit that is very hard to find, dried earth and tree bark. All this with a pronounced cork flavor, like soured and wet oak.
  
  Bummer. I was stubborn and didn't wanna believe this was corked after FermentedBeast mentioned it. I was trying so hard to pick out notes and try to enjoy it like everyone else. I just can't enjoy this like everyone else, can I? Imagine if you can liquefy a cork while keeping its scent and flavors. There was a faint hint of it early on, thought it would air out and go away, but came back strong in the end. Somehow the wine managed to still show some of its characteristics though.

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  2/4/2023 - Race crew Likes this wine: 96 Points

  yea.....like yea

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  11/17/2022 - AGELVIS Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Two hour decant. Very deep dark magenta color. Black raspberry, cassis, pine needles, cinnamon graham cracker, spicy chocolate, and orange rind on the nose. Smooth, dry, spicy, full bodied palate. Firm, full tannins on the longish finish.
  
  Terrific opening wine for the start of a fun wine weekend in Naples, FL with my good friends Mark (Mark1NPT) and Carol. This is truly in it’s drinking window at this point, but certainly needs the decant.

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