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• 559Cheers Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 24, 2020 - Bordeaux on the nose (left bank), but it has fallen apart and dying on the palette. Age and little fruit. I agree with the prior posts.
  *Actually half hour later wine is opening up and reacting to O2 in the air and gaining more viscosity and developing more palette aromatics. Still classic Bordeaux on the nose.
  *2 hours later wine has come alive and have to rescore. Not bad and fruit has come forward. Boudreaux on the nose. Viscosity better.

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• galewskj wrote: 88 points

  July 23, 2018 - Bring a bottle.... (Tracy's Garden): This is yet another napa cab from a good producer that should have held up but is falling apart, or at least not nowhere near what you hope to drink when you open a bottle like this. Although there have been some AMAZING bottles, I have been overall disappointed with Napa cab past 15 years old. Interestingly, it seems the bottles from the 80's have held up well, but the 90's have not aged well. This bottle had a whiff of nuanced complex fruit on the nose, but the palate was a big let down. No complexity on the palate, but not entirely dead either, just banal. 88 based on the semi-intriguing nose and a palate that was acceptable in a $12 bottle way.

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• 3daywinereview.com wrote: 85 points

  July 20, 2018 - Nose was good but palate about an 80. This is why you should not hold on to these wine that are almost 30 years old. I get Bordeaux and Burgundy but not Napa.

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• rocknroller wrote: 88 points

  July 14, 2018 - WTDS in the Gardens (Tracy and Jeff's Place, Mpls): Very dark red color. Drank a 2 oz pour over an hour. This was nicer on the nose than the palate. The nose has int, subtle cherry, slightly perfumed and bit smokey. The palate on the other hand was harsher, lots of alcohol if the wine aerosolizes at all in the mouth, wood, dried wood. If you're rather cautious in how you drink it, it holds together better. Fun to try this, but just too far down the hill. 87-88ish,

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• Baron Slick wrote: 93 points

  April 13, 2018 - Classically composed and impeccably balanced, this displays all the hallmarks of a beautifully aged Napa Cab. The bouquet toggles between freshness and maturity, flaunting dusty, black fruit, forest floor, and cigar box amid shades of garden hose, chamomile, Bergamot, and a whiff of medicinality. The palate displays structure and longevity, with fresh, plump red fruit, bright acidity, sumptuous texture, a sleek backbone, and a long, tensile finish. This isn’t close to slowing down and should stay in its prime for another 10-15 years. Best of all this shows an articulation of place and belonging.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1992
• Type Red
• Producer Clos du Val
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Stags Leap District
• UPC Code 081761129124

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• Consumed 118 (49%)

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