Community Tasting Notes 54

• Josch48 Likes this wine: 97 points

  May 27, 2022 - Opaque blue-black color with red to the rim. The nose is heady with dried dusty tobacco, graphite/pencil box, blueberry, smokey ripened blackberry, and a subtle hint of baking spices.
  The mouthfeel is dense, silky, and luscious with still present appropriate acidity and tannin that gently support the gorgeous second and first growth Bordeaux style sweet Cabernet Sauvignon fruit, redolent with complexity, that is laced with vanilla bean and blackberry compote that linger through the long elegant finish. The 2008 Napa Valley vintage was problematic for winemakers with a below average crop yield that also produced small berry sized Cabernet Sauvignon grapes that yielded some dark, well-balanced, and powerful wines from the Rutherford area of Napa Valley.
  This wine is beautiful, and at once mature and still possessing brilliance and the promise of further developmental complexity without the loss of its concentration of youthful fruit flavors. I only wish I had bought more than two bottles, the first of which is a blurred distant memory. Postscript: Only minimal sediment left in one glass.

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• Lou Z wrote:

  December 21, 2020 - X mas gift to Mike P

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• JHalvorson Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 5, 2020 - We enjoyed this bottle while watching the Vikings defeat the Saints in OT. It is time to drink up those still left in the cellar. Showing signs of fading.

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• GRoz Likes this wine: 90 points

  October 31, 2019 - 11 year old Napa Cabernet that’s drinking perfectly. Smooth as silk with great fruit. Drink up 1-2 years.

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• Mark1npt Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 9, 2018 - A big whiff of alcohol on opening which burns off within 10 minutes. Herbal/floral nose, ruby in the glass. Loads of red/black fruit on entry, cherry most prevalent. Mid-weight with sweet cassis and tannins, plenty of acidity left for quite a few more years. I must admit, it's better than I thought it would be. Somebody was wrong on the drink by date.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Honig
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Codes 083837020007, 091882492564

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• In Cellars 554 (40%)
• Consumed 837 (60%)

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