But She’s Too Young

This is easily the cheapest, littlest Happy Canyon Cab I have tried to this date.  Medium density clear ruby with pink edges.  A little bell pepper and squished-bug nose with sweet oak and banana-peel bright-fruit forwardness.  Tiny bits of spice and woodsy-roundness but in a wet-cardboard sorta way.  Good, clean entry with almost instant acidity and tannin blocking off the initial meager fruit.  This is not a horrid wine, it’s just not something to get even remotely excited about.  2nd or 3rd-growth BDX comes to mind.  Deep dark ripe cherry DOES follow through the finish, and the whole package is going to appeal to palates perhaps moving out of third-and fourth-shelf local cabs but not yet really experiencing or embracing a quality cab with fruit and balance at or above this price-point.  Clean and neat and totally serviceable, but boring.  This came as a vintage-mistake on a restaurant menu, and was opened before I could approve.  I would never, under ANY circumstances, order–or drink–2yo cab.  Crazy young, and will settle down into something entirely more enjoyable with a couple years under its belt, and I suppose it has the balance to carry on for a decade, but I wouldn’t put too much money on it.  Cab like this just isn’t designed for that.  Drink it an enjoy it… I would love to revisit this in 2 years.  14-3  ◊

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