2015 Passing Time Cabernet Sauvignon Red Mountain
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The 2015 Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits aromas of baked black fruits, charred new oak and grappa. On the palate, it makes a dramatic, rich entrance but quickly falls short, concluding with a diffuse, oak-inflected finish. To my palate, this is heavy handed and overripe, even in its style, but tasters who enjoy a more confectionary, liqueur-like style of Cabernet may well gravitate toward it.
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Jeb Dunnuck
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The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon RM (there's 3% Cabernet Franc in the blend) offers both red and black fruits as well as classic Red Mountain notes of dried earth, liquid violets, and crushed rocks. Showing more blue fruits with time in the glass, it's full-bodied, fresh and nicely focused on the palate, with ripe, yet present tannin, and a great finish. Slightly tighter and more backward than the other two appellation cuvées, give it a year or two. A collaboration between Football Stars Dan Marino and Damon Huard, with the wines made by Chris Peterson (of Avennia), Passing Time releases four Cabernet Sauvignon dominated cuvees, each from a specific Washington State appellation. All four are brilliant wines that check-in near the top of the vintage.