Napa Valley, California, USA
Wine nerd herd and Friday night in Iowa
Wine nerd herd and Friday night in Iowa
May 25th, 2019
Another big fruit fruit forward force. Plum, graphite and cedar/oak. Round edges and lengthy finish. @Aaron Hamrock
Another big fruit fruit forward force. Plum, graphite and cedar/oak. Round edges and lengthy finish. @Aaron Hamrock
May 18th, 2019
This particular wine is Larkmead’s ‘The Lark’ made with 100% Cabernet Sauvignon coming from the excellent 2007 vintage in Napa Valley. It matured 20 months in 100% new French oak barrels before bottling without filtration.
This wine marries power with beauty, given its firm structure and the mellifluous chorus of aromas and flavors such as ripe blackberry, crème de cassis, black cherry, blackcurrant, purple fig, violet, black licorice, anise, fennel, vanilla, clove, cardamom, damp earth, and kalamata olive.
The palate is mouth-coating and smooth, with high, but soft, fine-grained tannins, medium (+) acidity creating balance, and high alcohol. The finish is long.
This is an outstanding wine slowly revealing layers of character as it evolves in the glass. It’s drinking marvelously now, but has life ahead of it yet.
This particular wine is Larkmead’s ‘The Lark’ made with 100% Cabernet Sauvignon coming from the excellent 2007 vintage in Napa Valley. It matured 20 months in 100% new French oak barrels before bottling without filtration.
This wine marries power with beauty, given its firm structure and the mellifluous chorus of aromas and flavors such as ripe blackberry, crème de cassis, black cherry, blackcurrant, purple fig, violet, black licorice, anise, fennel, vanilla, clove, cardamom, damp earth, and kalamata olive.
The palate is mouth-coating and smooth, with high, but soft, fine-grained tannins, medium (+) acidity creating balance, and high alcohol. The finish is long.
This is an outstanding wine slowly revealing layers of character as it evolves in the glass. It’s drinking marvelously now, but has life ahead of it yet.
