Calistoga, Napa Valley, California, USA
A treat to always open a birth year bottle around your birthday! Shared the table with some heavy hitters ( @Bill Bender
and @Joe Lucca ) and also their heavy hitter bottles!
Based on the first two hours, this showed like a 95-96pt wine. We were shocked how youthful, fresh and fruit-forward it presented. Awesome cork. Deep red/black in the glass with a small amount of bricking around the rim. Aromatics of classic old Napa…dried red and black fruits, graphite, leather. The real surprise was the profile on the palate…youthful! Fresh red and black fruits, old pipe tobacco, green herbs, graphite, coffee beans, wrapped in a beautifully elegant, lifted profile (12.5ABV), vibrant acidity and typical Diamond Creek tannin at the finish. After hour two, this started going downhill and lost most its fruit and showed more chewing tobacco.
Compared to the ‘88 Red Rock Terrace I opened 2-3yrs ago, this was in a different league. Darker and more fresh versus more clay and light bodied.
A treat to always open a birth year bottle around your birthday! Shared the table with some heavy hitters ( @Bill Bender
and @Joe Lucca ) and also their heavy hitter bottles!
Based on the first two hours, this showed like a 95-96pt wine. We were shocked how youthful, fresh and fruit-forward it presented. Awesome cork. Deep red/black in the glass with a small amount of bricking around the rim. Aromatics of classic old Napa…dried red and black fruits, graphite, leather. The real surprise was the profile on the palate…youthful! Fresh red and black fruits, old pipe tobacco, green herbs, graphite, coffee beans, wrapped in a beautifully elegant, lifted profile (12.5ABV), vibrant acidity and typical Diamond Creek tannin at the finish. After hour two, this started going downhill and lost most its fruit and showed more chewing tobacco.
Compared to the ‘88 Red Rock Terrace I opened 2-3yrs ago, this was in a different league. Darker and more fresh versus more clay and light bodied.
Not as good as the 72 also at this tasting. But good. Firm black fruit flavors. Slighty flat but at the same time, has flavor. Might be a victim of a weak vintage.
Not as good as the 72 also at this tasting. But good. Firm black fruit flavors. Slighty flat but at the same time, has flavor. Might be a victim of a weak vintage.
Dec 16th, 2015
Rafael E. had this 10 years ago
Rafael E. had this 10 years ago
May 20th, 2016
