Wine Doctrine
2012

Promontory Penultimate

Tasted 7 April 2023 California · Napa Valley

I get that the idea is to drink this on the more 'now' side of things while your precious big daddy Promontory are resting peacefully in some dark corner of the world somewhere, but right out the gate I felt like the…

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