Community Tasting Notes 16

• mhudes Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 4, 2020 - NFL wildcard weekend football with Walter (Titans vs Patriots). PnP. Brick red in color. Dried cherries and flowers on the nose. Bkack cherries plums and cocoa on the palate with leather and eucalyptus in the background. Medium body wuth tannins fully resolved. Not as powerful as the bottle I had in 2015, but still a very enjoyable wine after a quarter century. (The shorter finish was perhaps the most notable difference.) Went nicely with my beef sandwich.

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• DRK III Likes this wine: 90 points

  November 15, 2015 - Didn't taste as old as it was, but the lower alcohol made it noticeably different versus newer vintages. Plum, blueberries, leather, and sweet pipe tobacco. Ripe tannins, lively acidity. Nice balance. Good wine, nothing spectacular. Won't get any better.

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• danielbleier Likes this wine: 89 points

  February 26, 2015 - I found this to be hanging tough after 20 years - leather and plum with sweet tannin still present

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• alittle wrote: 89 points

  June 7, 2014 - Super Tasting 3 of 5; Going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali (Maciej and Steve host a 1994 California Horizontal) (George, Toronto, ON): Served blind. Popped and poured. Garnet in the glass, with a light brick. On the nose, this is very clean, with dark fruits, mint, spice, but not really showing much in the way of complexity. On the palate, quite clean, with nice concentration, with sweet dark fruit, spice, earth, mint and pyrazine notes. Well crafted, relatively polished, but showing a bit simplistic. Reveal was not all that surprising. Reasonable wine, but not of much interest on this nice.

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• Dave Canada wrote: 89 points

  June 7, 2014 - Year 2 - Super Tasting 3 of 5 - Maciej and Steve do 1994 Napa Cabernet (George Restaurant, Toronto, ON): Popped and poured, served blind.
  Notes of menthol, pure dark fruit, mint....dense but lacking complexity....a typical cali bruiser.
  Palate showed big dark fruit, mint, menthol but not a lot else...the fruit is overwhelming and over the top for me.
  The finish had big fruit, nothing else and was boring to say the least

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1994
• Type Red
• Producer Chappellet
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Signature
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Code 081587119897

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• In Cellars 81 (38%)
• Consumed 133 (62%)

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