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Manage Subscriptions2002 Schrader Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon RBS Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard
Cabernet Sauvignon
- USA
- California
- Napa Valley
- Oakville
Community Tasting Notes 4
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Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 points
July 29, 2022 - Nose of crushed raspberry and blackcurrant
The mouth is rich but terribly digestible and supple for its 14.7°. The juice is enormously dense but slender, with a nice underlying acidity and an integrated woodiness. The whole seduces with an ever-bright fruit on a background of vanilla and spices. The wine coats everything it touches without feeling tired with sapidity and great pleasure. The finish is like the wine, intense and with a magnificent length on the sweet spices.
It's excellent, and the pairing with a nice matured meat was relevant. -
tp096255 Likes this wine: 93 points
May 1, 2015 - I'm not going to do a big old note on this one because it might be slightly flawed, not sure. This is the only bottle of this I have ever tasted and after 3 tastes via Coravin I come to the same conclusion that it's either too old or it has a little funk a-la-Bordeaux (esp in the nose).
It just doesn't smell, taste or finish like a typical Schrader. It's not bad, just not very inspiring. The 93 points is a little generous.
The nose has more funk than fruit, then the fruit tries to burst through on the palate only to disappear beneath the funky structure in the finish. It's a well-made wine but perhaps well past its prime. Drink it up if you have it. -
cobystilp wrote: 96 points
October 12, 2012 - Cab's Seventh of April Club dinner on 9/11/12: This was my penultimate WOTN. It had been opened and decanted for 3 hours prior to drinking. Tastes of macerated cherries. A forever finish that goes on and on and on. It coats the whole mouth (even the roof). Awesome!
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snordhoff wrote: 94 points
August 5, 2010 - No notes on this yet? Deep ruby with much of the tannin resolved. Oak is fully integrated. Classic Cabernet flavors with a chewy quality that bodes well for further aging, but I am not sure it will get better. Even the dregs were refined and polished. Very nice.
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By Stephen Tanzer
May/June 2004, IWC Issue #114 (link)(Schrader Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon RBS Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard Napa Valley) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2002
- Type Red
- Producer Schrader Cellars
- Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
- Designation RBS
- Vineyard Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Napa Valley
- Appellation Oakville
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- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 174 (87%)
- Consumed 25 (13%)
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- SubRegionNapa Valley
- AppellationOakville
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