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• Red White Likes this wine: 96 points

  December 31, 2023 - Absolutely amazing wine quite drinkable now I wouldn’t wait any longer to drink it. I literally can’t think would be beneficial, but hey, it’s a pier

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• Nekodab wrote: 98 points

  July 27, 2023 - Super smooth, very underrated, all the checks in the boxes

• Josch48 Likes this wine: 92 points

  March 6, 2023 - Dark, opaque black cherry color, deceptively indicative of generous extraction. The nose initially presents with slightly dusty sweet blue and black fruit, pencil box and cedar, complementary additive aromas of plum, raisin, and prune, along with vanilla and caramel tinged Medjool date.
  The mouthfeel has a surprisingly medium light viscosity, with vestigial tannins and a still bright acidity supporting delicately dry blue fruit flavors, held in a lightly concentrated suspension, reminiscent of an older, (perhaps on its graceful evolutionary descension), second growth Margaux, say Pavillon Rouge.
  This wine, which is 92% Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, and 8% Merlot (41% estate grown), is very French to my palate, and not at all what I expected from a Napa Valley producer, in the present day wine making style, even in what may be seen by some as one of the weaker Napa Valley vintages.
  The deliciously elegant wine curiously takes me back to the 1980 and 1990 decades of Cabernet Sauvignon I enjoyed, which were produced by the undisputed master of Napa Valley winemaking, Robert Mondavi, who made California/French style, low alcohol (13.8% for this wine), beauties, long before the introduction of his collaborative Opus offerings.
  These impressions have been given without having the benefit of food, and I highly anticipate the wine’s showing with hanger steak my wife has prepared in the oven.
  With dinner the wine’s fruit is more forward with the supporting structure enmeshed with the food, for an even more smooth and silky mouthfeel, reminiscent of the Robert Mondavi reserve Cabernet Sauvignon style, that, like so many early Napa treasures, are sadly fast approaching extinction in favor of the ever increasing, economically unapproachable, high alcohol, port like, and unidimensional Napa Valley offerings of today.
  When did this winemaking trend, generally speaking, of jammy over elegant complexity begin happening? Luckily, I am still able to find graceful red wines from Alexander Valley, and Howell Mountain producers.
  I would appreciate any thoughts, insights, and suggestions along these lines.
  All things considered, wine makes life exceedingly good.

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• Druvhöken wrote: 85 points

  September 5, 2022 - Svarta vinbär och kaffe, syltigt mycket frukt med lite mynta.
  Fylligt Bra syra tanniner med mycket frukt.
  Tråkigt slut, inte någon höjdare.

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• muulva@live.com Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 20, 2022 - The wine looks tawny colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like cedar, bark, prune, forest floor and vanilla. It tastes like cedar, forest floor, mushroom, burnt and alcohol/hot. The body is medium. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Stag's Leap Wine Cellars
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Artemis
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Code 088593700200

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• In Cellars 1,714 (48%)
• Consumed 1,869 (52%)

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