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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Wine Each Week – Pahlmeyer 2016 Napa Valley Red Wine


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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