Promontory, Napa Valley, 2012, 75clThe 2012 Promontory, which is the softest vintage to date, was slightly better this year than last year, as it had rounded out. It does not have the depth of the 2013, but it is a great wine on its own merits. Notes of new saddle leather, loamy soil, and crushed rock intermingle with blackcurrants, plum, tobacco leaf and spice in a full bodied, wonderfully pure and large scaled style with ripe, well integrated tannin. It is accessible enough to enjoy,