Community Tasting Note

beezer6 wrote:

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - Let breathe in the bottle for about four hours. Lovely darker ruby color.
Nose had culty qualities of Bordeaux-esque older leather, dark cherries, currant, cigar box and some dusty trail dirt on the back end.
There was some abrasiveness on the finish that was only slightly off-putting. A little too much heat, acidity and tannins as a whole was over bearing; less would have been more.

I didn't know what to expect because reviews were completely across the board on this vintage of Cardinale; Enthusiast at 100 pts and no one else even close. I can see how this could have great potential to either improve with some age or be astounding in a solid vintage of Cali Cabernet.

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