Flora Springs Trilogy, Napa Valley, 1993
This entry was posted on 1/23/2008 8:04 PM and is filed under California Cabernets, California Merlot.
I am a big fan of the Flora Springs portfolio, and firmly believe that the Trilogy is one of the best California meritage wines out there. Recently, however, I had the opportunity to try a bottle of the old 1993 vintage. The wine is a blend of 40% cabernet sauvignon, 40% merlot, and 20% cabernet franc. I had not owned this bottle since release, so I can not testify as to it's storage. The wine was extremely drinkable, but was clearly losing it's fruit and seemed to be a few years past it's prime. Perhaps with better storage it would have been a different story. The wine was probably drinking at the 4 sar level 5 or 6 years ago, but the bottle I had was drinking at the 3 star level.
3 stars
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