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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.7 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by walkerjfw on 2/16/2016 & rated 94 points: Lunch at Solage with Tom/Juan/Jamie to kick off PNV week. Amazing food and excellent wines...drank along with a 2012 Dana Sauvignon Blanc, 95 Dominus, 13 Realm Houyi and Petit Syrah from Jamie (not named...) This was a generous contribution from Tom....Lower neck fill on this bottle, cork came out clean, very well stored. Drank this over a couple hours during an extended and hedonistic lunch...
Pale garnet color, bricking at the edges. Took some time to open, tight when opened with mostly barnyard/brett. Fruits were muted red cherry...After 30+ minutes the wine started to wake up showing dusted red cherry, eucalyptus, bay leaf, earth, "tomato paste". After about 90 minutes a cedar and caramel/burnt sugar started to show. Texture was soft, nuanced medium finish.
This is past its peak but still very nice to drink. Well stored bottles should hold at this level, but I would drink soon if given the chance. Integrated and elegant, its nice to see what a well stored bottles from that era has become. A decant is a must, the wine needs time to open...the last sips of this were showing the most complexity. (4751 views) | | | Tasted by hackey37 on 5/30/2015 & rated 89 points: Garnet color, dark but translucent and a hint of brick to the edge. The smells are bretty at first and then subside followed by hint of cherry cough medicine, whiffs of mint, vegetal notes, and earthy notes. The tastes are cherry, earth, tobacco, with a tart finish with a hint of tannins left. (4635 views) | | | Tasted by caeleric on 4/15/2012: used an ah-so to extract the cork, gently poured into a decanter, rinsed the bottle out and poured back in the bottle for a 30-minute aeration.
first of all, the cork was tremendous. ZERO bleed. amazing! the wine was a bricking pale crimson, very pinot-esque in color. but the wine was a champ! enormously expressive aromas of bay leaf, mint, tomato puree, small dried red berries, attic, tobacco, and cassis. fully integrated tannins that yielded a soft and silky texture, but a gorgeously mature flavor profile, bringing in some steeped tea. this was a treat and proof that california wines can and do age very well. if scoring, 93-95. certainly on the decline, but with a long ways to go. (7096 views) | | | Tasted by ctjared on 8/4/2011: Brought to a cab tasting event. Powerful ashtray on the nose and after 30 mins was drinking tremendously. What a surprise and a pleasure next to much younger fruitier competition. (6995 views) | | | Tasted by DTWOB on 12/26/2009: Alas, corked. It was a gift, but disapointing all the same. (7682 views) | | | Tasted by winelover91001 on 7/12/2005: When first opened, the Caymus was a tad biting. After 30 minutes it was beautiful with perfect depth. Color was a muted cherry. An excellent cab with miles to go. (4893 views) | | | Tasted by bestdamncab on 1/29/1992 & rated 89 points: 1975-1984 CAYMUS ESTATE VINTAGE TASTING (Walnut Creek, Ca.): Touch of sweat sox, opened slowly, very rich berry taste, nice, pleasant, soft fruit, very nice finish. (144 views) | | | Tasted by bestdamncab on 11/24/1990 & rated 89 points: Tasting of 11 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignons. Showed a great , big, rich bouquet, beautiful, cherry fruit, still needs time, long on fruit and hints of acid suggest the long finish will only get better in 3 years. My #5 and Group tie #7. (1112 views) | | | Tasted by MicklethePickle on 3/1/1990 & rated 91 points: With MPL and BLR at London Wine Bar. Medium dark ruby. Very deep, rich nose. Just excellent. Firm, ripe. On the palate, drinking beautifully, with plenty of fruity muscle. Excellent wine. 5-12-16-8: 91/100. (1062 views) | | | Tasted by MicklethePickle on 9/14/1989 & rated 86 points: At Jeff Glick's going-away at Square One. Medium dark red. Good nose. Pure, sweet. On the palate, very good, slightly vegetal. 5-10-15-6: 86/100. (685 views) |
| Caymus Producer website Cabernet 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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