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Flickinger Wines Ten Years After Tasting: 2001 USA Cabernets and Blends
Their store in Wilmette, IL
Tasted April 18, 2011 by jlgnml with 948 views
Introduction
This was the first of several tastings around the 2001 vintage. Tonight was the USA Cab and blends, to be followed up by First Growths, Grand Cru Burgundy, CdP, Grand Cru Red Burgandy and Barolo. Tonight was difficult because all of the wines were fantastic 18.5 out of 20, or 92 out of 100. They began to develop some more slowly than the others. Lots of depth in the glasses and these wines will last for a while. Great evening.
Flight 1 (10 notes)
The order of the wines drunk, double blind, decanted 2 hours before serving. The order of the finish was Ridge, Beringer, Scherrer, Peter Michael, Grace, Shafer, Togni, Phelps, Dunn and Quilceda.
Red
2001 Beringer Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve
Soft tanin, light on the palate, ranked 4th, group 2
Red
2001 Dunn Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain
Floral, fruitty, short on the palate, dry, developed slowly in the glass, ranked 6th, group 9th
Red
2001 Grace Family Cabernet Sauvignon
Purple color, cab nose, more on the palate for taste, very good indeed. Ranked 5th, group 5th.
Red
2001 Philip Togni Cabernet Sauvignon
Clean color, good nose, spicy and rich on the palate, ranked 3, group 7th
Red
2001 Peter Michael Les Pavots
grape jam, black currant, bright color, great nose but different. Ranked 9th, group 4th
Red
Red
2001 Scherrer Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley
After taste muted alcohol, rasberry lizueor, very hot/bordeaux flavor, merlot, ranked 2, group 3
Red
2001 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon
initial must on the nose, high alcolhol, less fruit, very scented, awesome changes in the glass, cinnammon. Ranked 8, group 10
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Red
2001 Joseph Phelps Insignia
full flavor on palate, full of airneess, good balance on the alchohol, more evolving, Ranked 10, group 8
Red
2001 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select
Not as full of flavor, better on the palate. Ranked 7th, group 6th
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