The 2022 vintage in Napa Valley was a tricky one, with a heat wave in the middle of harvest. You would not know that from tasting this wine, because winemaker Phillip Titus handled those challenges with aplomb. The flavors are big and bold, definitively Napa Valley, and definitively Napa mountains, with deep cassis, black cherry and mulberry fruit, rock, smoke, graphite, madrone, and sage notes. It's the aromas that really give the wine freshness and make it stand out. There's lavender, thyme, blueberry, and more smoky tones that give the wine tremendous range. * I should note that wildfires were not a problem in Napa Valley in 2022. That smoky note that adds complexity is not obnoxious and it seems to be a pleasant, recurring note in this particular wine, so I think you can chalk that up to terroir and not natural disasters. (95 Points)
- Tim Teichgraeber
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