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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.2 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 47 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Bobbusch on 1/1/2024 & rated 95 points: Decanted the wine for several hours. Just a beautiful wine. Drank with surf and turf on NYE. Nice dark fruits running through this wine. Tobacco undertones with leather in the bouquet. I would say that the wine is peaking, so would consume within the next 2 years. (323 views) | | | Tasted by houstonjeff@hotmail.com on 12/11/2023 & rated 97 points: Drinking near the peak. Why wait more? (358 views) | | | Tasted by rinnocenzi on 11/8/2021 & rated 92 points: Still really big drink next 5-10 years (1543 views) | | | Tasted by D.Callahan on 4/8/2021 & rated 97 points: Absolutely delicious! I'll come back to finish this note. (1745 views) | | | Tasted by Artbreadman on 2/21/2021 & rated 95 points: Dark brooding fruit. Firm but refined tannins. Despite its age, this came alive in two hours and improved the balance of the evening. Not my favorite Schrader but very solid. (1846 views) | | | Tasted by FoinZap on 10/25/2020 & rated 95 points: Decanted and poured. Purple with an almost tomato-orange tint. Black fruit, dried leaves on the nose. Massive blackberry, black cherry, milk chocolate, tobacco, pencil lead, spice/pepper flavor profile. Full bodied with an "edge," partly the spicy aspect, partly a touch fine-grainy. Long finish. Increasingly came together and integrated with time in air, particularly the spicy and grainy elements. May have upside from here. (1962 views) | | | Tasted by Amerique on 8/23/2020 & rated 97 points: Best Schrader I've tasted. Beautiful, rich, delicious black cherry fruit with chocolate flavors, multilayered, excellent structure, long finish (1991 views) | | | Tasted by timothynbond on 3/25/2020 & rated 94 points: Decanted and drank over about 3 and half hours. Deep purple color with ruby around the edge. Medium length legs. Incredibly complex bouquet: tobacco (strongest), chocolate, liquorice, fresh flowers, gingerbread, toasted marshmallow, and some cranberry. Can feel the alcohol but not overpowing. Smooth tannins. Most dominant flavor is anise, along with dark cherries, blackberries, and a hint of smoked meat. Long smokey finish of tobacco. A really well-crafted wine that is only getting dinged because I don't love anise. Wife said this was her favorite red wine she has ever tasted. Paired with dry aged steak, creamed corn, and green beans. (1580 views) | | | Tasted by gteran76 on 1/13/2019 & rated 95 points: A friend brought it to a Sunday BBQ and Wine afternoon! It was decanted for one hour and then drank with the filet mignon 3 hours after. Black berries with chocolate and tabaco, bold with firm tannins and structure. Can go the distance for sure!
To me, a tied with the AO ERA 2006 and PRIDE Reserve 2005 a little bit behind. (2350 views) | | | Tasted by pjhr on 5/23/2018 & rated 96 points: Layers of delicious dark ripe cherry, anise, and currant with integrated oaky notes on the nose and palate culminating in a long finish with well resolved tannins. (2489 views) | | | Tasted by Bcw1989 on 12/30/2017 & rated 92 points: Very muted wine. Everything just seems held back. The nose was very soft. The color was very dark and the flavors were not very expressive. Still an enjoyable bottle but just not a Schrader experience. Drink now if you have more. Was expecting so much more from this wine. (2511 views) | | | Tasted by Scooter on 11/19/2016 & rated 89 points: The wine looks crimson colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like alcohol/hot and black pepper. It tastes like blackberry, strong anise and raspberry. The body is light/medium. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity.
Four hour decant. Disappointed with this bottle. Everyone enjoyed it more than I did. (3311 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 6/10/2016: Chicago Wine Flock...Gary Opens Cali Cab (Chez Weber - Chicago IL): Badly corked. (4238 views) | | | Tasted by Agreenblatt on 10/17/2015 & rated 96 points: 2 hour decant (3147 views) | | | Tasted by Bobc7had on 5/10/2015 & rated 98 points: Wow drinking perfectly
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Perfectly integrated fruit and tannins (3199 views) | | | Tasted by beau11 on 2/28/2015 & rated 99 points: Slow ooze for 4 then drank over 6 hrs. It was amazing from the start but the slow ooze was additive. I would not do more than a flash decant. Great balance, nice concentration and a long finish. My favorite of the giii's by far. (3490 views) | | | Tasted by soyhead on 1/23/2015: consumed courtesy of Dale, and unfortunately it didnt show great, came across as slightly sweet and candied, especially in the context of the La Mission and Masseto that we enjoyed alongside. perhaps would be more enjoyable in a different context (2607 views) | | | Tasted by rcl1 on 1/1/2015 & rated 97 points: EXCELLENT!! Balanced, great fruit. (2409 views) | | | Tasted by enjoywine on 12/4/2014 & rated 98 points: Drank at Sips w friend. I have had these since 2005 and I think the GIII is outstanding and maybe my favorite of all the Schrader’s – No doubt it’s the one that is the most approachable young. Too bad I cant hold on to any to see how they would be in 10 years. It did get more complex over a 1 hour decant and drink. (2425 views) | | | Tasted by tp096255 on 6/2/2014 & rated 96 points: ---
COLOR: Opaque purple with purple-ruby rim
NOTE: This was a knockout from nose to finish. It was served a little warm so the alcohol was a little more pronounced, but it still rocked everyone at the table. One of the best Cabs I've ever had. It was extremely well balanced, full of plush black fruits, ripe and round. It beat the 2008 Materium by about a point. The bottle went fast at the WS El Bulli dinner.
DECANT: 5 hours
GLASS USED: Bordeaux
TASTE: 9.6
COST: 185
VALUE: 7.0
TRY AGAIN: now - 2020
PAIRING: beef tenderloin and burnt onion jam
Inquiries can be addressed to troypeterson@usa.net
--- (3025 views) | | | Tasted by dhammer53 on 8/24/2013 & rated 97 points: Drank this at a Wineberserker dinner at North Square. If this wasn't an Oh My experience, nothing is. Nice nose. Smooth and delicious. It's ready to enjoy now, or hold. It was wine of the flight vs '08 Hundred Acre and '09 Scarecrow. It was also WOTN. (3446 views) | | | Tasted by EMichels on 8/22/2013 & rated 93 points: Nice depth; Very good (3105 views) | | | Tasted by bonedocnine on 8/11/2013 & rated 95 points: stunning! Delivers on every level. Fantastic wine. Thomas Brown does it again.......! (3036 views) | | | Tasted by davidwhitedc on 2/12/2013 & rated 94 points: Blind Tasting of 2008 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon from Thomas Rivers Brown: A bright, beautiful nose of juicy raspberries, black cherries, and blackberries, forest floor, some dried red fruits, and crème de cassis. The fruit is backed by a nice floral lift of lavender and potpourri alongside Christmas spices and spicy oak. On the palate, the wine is dense and concentrated, but beautifully balanced and drinkable thanks to bright acid and great texture. An exceptional wine. (4521 views) | | | Tasted by Lanny21 on 1/1/2013: Opened like a drunk idiot at 2am on New Years eve. From what i remember it was really good. What a waste. (3680 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Schrader Cellars Producer websiteCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Rutherford Rutherford,
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