Wednesday, March 20, 2013

February 1, 2013 – Wine: 2008 Provenance Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon

Have you ever tasted potential?  This wine has the potential to develop into something magnificent, given enough time in the cellar.  And that is precisely what I should have done – left this in the cellar for a couple more years.  The wine is drinking nicely today, with a nice nose and dark flavors of blackberry, black cherry, leather, black licorice, and notes of smoke.  The wine is nicely balanced.  But lurking beneath the niceties is developing the beginnings of some magical qualities.  If you want a nice wine, go ahead and open this wine now.  If you want something more, hold onto this for two to three more years and then let’s see what happens.

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