Levendi, Symphonia Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley

Just beautiful! Great for a cold, snowy night and still going strong. At least 5 more years on this beauty.

Drinking young, still showing well with rich aromas, well balanced with grippy tannins, just the right amount of barrel influence and a tasty, long finish. Shows great promise for medium-term cellaring, but hard to resist now. Great producer from a great vintage.

It was very good with our eggplant parmigiana. It’s didn’t have a lot of nose. Great Cab with long legs. No tannins. Burgundy color but could sit another year before opening.

Notes follow a 2 hour decant. Rich aromas show creamy scents of vanilla, cassis, dark cherry and blackberry with chocolate ganache and traces of herbs, flowers and creme brûlée. On the palate rich and full, voluptuous and creamy... Tannins are ripe and sweet at a medium/medium-plus level, Acidity matches as does the alcohol. bold fruit forward flavors of cassis, luxardo cherries and blackberry liquor with flavors of vanilla chantilly cream, chocolate ganache, new oak and violets. Traces of spice and …

An absolute train wreck of a wine. Chocolate, vanilla, toffee, repeat. The palate is fat and muddled, with syrupy, gooey, chunky black and blue fruits. I seldom come up with nicknames for wines, but this went from Levendi, to Offendme, pretty quickly. Very poor underlying raw materials, poor assemblage, too. 14,5% abv PnP, served non-blind over two nights.