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2007 Switchback Ridge Merlot Peterson Family Vineyard - USA, California, Napa Valley (10/31/2009)
This wine was a bit of a disappointment for me given how much I enjoyed the 2005 vintage and my expectations for the 2007. Last night it was just a giant fruit bomb of a wine with a bunch of oak and no real outstanding secondary characteristics. On the positive side, The abv is only 14.0%, which is a nice step down from the higher levels of recent vintages. I do like the concentration of the fruit within the bomb and the oak has a nice chocolate overtone to it so perhaps this does have some development to show in the years ahead. I’ll reserve judgment and try another bottle sometime next year for comparison. Hold on to this one for now.
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