Price: $35 from the Total Wine
Nose: ripe fruit, cocoa powder and vanilla.
Tasting Notes: Full-bodied with concentrated fruits. Plush and grippy. Tannins are bitter, adding some structure, might be too young? Finish is long with dark chocolate notes.
Value Assessment: At this price point would comp this to a Gehricke’s Knights Valley and Chateau Buena Vista Napa which recieved a JS 93. Would say the Buena Vista had more structure and well rounded taste. Still an excellent cab. 4.6/5
by Careful_Badger_6559
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I’m a fan of pretty much all of the Paul Hobbs projects. Sure, he definitely is an American modernist producer and so all of his projects tend to display vivid lush fruit and a velvety mouthfeel, even the Ribeira Sacra Mencia. But the wines always have good acid and discrete layers of fruit, earth, herbs, etc.
The Crossbarn Pinot Noir is such a great people-pleasing wine. It’s a lush Sonoma Coast wine but it’s so damn well made.