2002 Cayuse Tempranillo Impulsivo En Chamberlin Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 94 points

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  10/19/2014 - cmbond Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Served blind to Rob/Dirk with Iberico Ham :)
  
  C: Garnet with slight bricking at rim.
  N: Lots of fruit, blueberry, blackberry, black cherry, spice, cinnamon, earth. Medium oak
  P: Congruent with nose. Intensed, Med+ acid, med+ tannin, nicely integrated. Good balance.
  
  Overall an excellent wine, completely different from Spanish Tempranillo as it has so much fruit and the acidity isn't nearly as sharp as something like a Lopez de Heredia wine. Also doesn't have the leather/stink of many classic Riojas. However, it was tremendously well received by everyone, Dirk included (he loved it and had more than two ounces, so you know it's good). Would def buy more.

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  4/3/2014 - Brandon Sparks-Gillis Likes this wine:

  Monolithic on day one, will see what happens tonight.

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  10/16/2007 - Jared wrote: 94 Points

  After being poured into the glass aromas of oak and tobacco are prominent. As we ate lunch and let the wine breathe, most of the oak disappated and hints of green olive and exotic spices and of course smokiness appeared along with a little black cherry. Upon first taste, you are hit with soft even velvety tannins and a good mouthful of black fruits--cherry, currant, a bit of blackberry. This wine continued to get better as it evolved over the next hour or so. Losing most of its oak and tobacco and replaced with the fruit and a speck of minerality in the back of the throat. All in all a very good wine--one that could most likely get a little better over the next five years. 94 points

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  2/2/2005 - KellyW wrote:

  If this is tempranillo you would never guess it blind. Down right freakish. The stuff goes off in every direction. Cannot explain.

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