30 years and Pahlmeyers’ Proprietary
Red keeps impressing.
Comprised of 80% Cabernet
Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 4% Petit Verdot, and 2% Malbec, this
has been a stalwart wine from Napa.
There’s a brambley berry
quality about this with notes of boysenberry, lingonberry, blackberry and blueberry.
There are also notes of violet and rosewater, bark chocolate with a very
subdued, yet judicious, use of oak. Aged for 20 months in mainly new French
Oak, this is that kind of wine you can drink on its own without food because it
is so complete in and of itself. The tenants are still there but are also
subdued and the acidity creeps around the corners of the tongue. There’s a
smoothness, a seamlessness that typifies this wine, something you should expect
to be elegant, lithe and graceful, and indeed it is.
ORIGIN: Napa, California
ALCOHOL: 15.1%
PRICE: $200 (750ML)
SCORE: 93 POINTS
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