Oh dear. I poured out a glass of this upon opening as a benchmark, but even after an hour's decant, this wine strikes me only as a muddy Napa cherry cola. To be fair, there is a wee bit of chocolate and spice in the background (way back!) but this wine, sold to me by the manager at Naples Total Wines as something special and at a supposedly great QPR, left me significantly underwhelmed. Ok: mea culpa. But caveat emptor.
48 hrs later: The image of muddy cherry cola has receded a bit, and some sense of classic cab character is now to the fore, but still, this lags well behind expectations.
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2/22/2024 - Randyjirwin Likes this wine: 92 Points
Bold and beautiful. Deep full body wine. Lots of cherries.
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12/30/2023 - ZPetersen wrote: 82 Points
Little young, should have aged it more
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11/28/2023 - baveni wrote:
Several years of cellaring is needed. Decanted for an hour and was still too sharp.
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11/10/2023 - Stoic Warrior Does not like this wine:
Oh dear. I poured out a glass of this upon opening as a benchmark, but even after an hour's decant, this wine strikes me only as a muddy Napa cherry cola. To be fair, there is a wee bit of chocolate and spice in the background (way back!) but this wine, sold to me by the manager at Naples Total Wines as something special and at a supposedly great QPR, left me significantly underwhelmed. Ok: mea culpa. But caveat emptor.
48 hrs later: The image of muddy cherry cola has receded a bit, and some sense of classic cab character is now to the fore, but still, this lags well behind expectations.
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10/31/2023 - Mike47 wrote: 85 Points
- Garnet color.
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