2014 The Napa Valley Reserve Helvetia Selection Napa Valley

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  12/25/2020 - sirpat00 wrote: 93 Points

  Deep golden colour. Expansive intensity, starting off a bit muted but capturing more and more of the air space around your nose. Nineral notes of granite stone, wood shavings, pear fruit, a bit of quince and stone fruit, lemongrass, very fine spicey notes. Somewhere in the distance there is also some faint nutty, marzipan flavours. On the palate tense with power, maybe just a touch too much oak initially, but that dissipated and otherwise super fresh and imposing. Textured in a creamy way which adds some „chew“ to the mouthfeel. The finish goes on and on. So much detail and ever-changing complexity. There is really nothing not to like and I‘m almost equally impressed as a couple of months ago. Drank over two days and I should mention on day 2 I would have taken the score down a couple of notches as some of the complexity got lost over night. I had the 2015 about a year ago and that blew my mind.

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