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Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 86.4 points

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  3/2/2023 - F_&_M Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Perfect everyday wine. Very few faults. Enjoyable.

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  9/26/2022 - wchrisw wrote:

  Another random Costco buy as the price was right and I used to love this circa 2006 or so. This was barely okay and I won’t buy again. Plummy, one dimensional, too much of a merlot and Cabernet dominated blend. Drank over two days and on day 2 I really struggled getting it down.

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  3/1/2022 - yurcek Does not like this wine: 86 Points

  Black Cherry, Raspberry. Soft. Too Jammy

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  2/10/2022 - Heynetty Likes this wine:

  Diploma Prep with Lauren, Sarah and Mike (Mike's House): Tasted Blind
  
  A: Medium ruby
  N: Pronounced intensity of red cherry, red plum violet, fruits of the forest (red and black bramble), coffee, cloves, bitter green bell pepper, stem
  P: Dry high acidity, high alcohol, full body, medium (+) astringent tannin, medium (+ intensity and medium finish
  C: The wine feels way too hot. The alcohol is not well integrated and the length of the red fruit and mild florals diminish quickly, The good intensity and mild complexity makes this a good quality wine. Better examples would have greater length, better integrated alcohol and less astringent more resolved tannins.
  This wine is suitable for ageing. The finish is shorter than needed.
  
  Guesses:
  Cabernet France. The wine had clear green bell pepper with red fruit and high acid. The tannin was consistent for the grape too. I thought it was old world as I thought I got some good savouriness.
  
  Mistakes:
  Alcohol and body were not at all consistent with Cab Franc. The alcohol is high in the old world too these days so that wasn't helping me. The astringent tannins are a dead giveaway in Washington State CSs according to Brandon.
  
  This was 76% merlot hence a lot of plum. The majority of the remainder was Cab Sav. A little confusing for me.

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  10/26/2021 - Rhollander wrote: 88 Points

  Everyday wine. Nothing special. Fresh red fruit, soft tannins. For 14$ not bad, but would get better value with an Argentinian wine

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