94
points
Decades5 2008 Stagecoach Vineyard Petite Verdot (Napa Valley)
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$145
A compelling wine. Made from this Bordeaux blending variety seldom seen bottled on its own, the grapes were grown in the Stagecoach Vineyard, high up on Atlas Peak, increasingly a source of some of Napa’s greatest red wines. The style is thoroughly modern, with soft tannins and rich flavors of chocolate, black cherries, cassis and new oak, as well as a pleasing…
— S.H.
(12/1/2011)