2013 Skipstone Red Faultline Vineyard
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The 2013 Faultline Vineyard is dark, powerful and intense. Game, smoke, gravel, chocolate, licorice, plum and super-ripe, bold, dark fruit are all pushed forward. Even all of the intense fruit can't fully cover the overpowering gamy, animal notes that dominate the wine's balance. This is an awkward showing.
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The late-release 2013 Faultline Vineyard is an intriguing blend of 63% Cabernet Franc, 25% Cabernet Sauvignon and 12% Merlot from their 25-acre amphitheater vineyard, which is dominated by terraces largely consisting of rocky/loamy/clay soils. This wine has a gorgeously voluptuous texture and is really a sleeper selection. Aged in 60% new French oak prior to being bottled unfiltered, the wine has loads of berry fruit, a touch of tobacco leaf, licorice, Asian soy, and some blueberry, black raspberry and dark cherry fruit. Layered and impressively constituted, this luscious wine should drink beautifully for another 20+ years.