As alluded to by other reviewers, this feels more like a Bordeaux than a typical California Cabernet - darker fruit, somewhat more graphite, and showing signs of maturity/being ready to drink. I think it does need some air to help round it out somewhat, but a very interesting contrast to what you would come to expect from California Cabernets.
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I thought this was ready to go pretty much out of the gate. Coming along really nicely with this bottle showing a lot more fruit than the last one, with all the savory flavors in good balance. For me, this wine is drinking now, though of course it has more to show with another 10+ years.
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Nose of earthy stank (good) hint of blackberry and cassis, dry cobbled riverbed in summer during a stressful paintball match, hints of grandma’s kitchen, small rock gifted from that childhood crush who never loved you the way you loved them. Don’t miss this wine, but please tell me you didn’t drink it too soon. Definitely one of the best Cabernets I’ve ever had. So elegant, so delicate. Few things can compare.
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Fantastic cab that is still distinctly on the upswing. I'm guessing that in another 5-10 years, this will be firmly in the outstanding range. A far darker profile (lead, dark soil, tobacco, raw cacao, lean dark fruits) than typical California cab. Surprisingly lean and elegant despite that. This is right up my alley. Fortunate are those with bottles to try in the years ahead.
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Black fruits, stone and cedar. Structured with significant acidity and firm tannins. Brambly with some mineral notes (that I haven't yet learned to describe) similar to wines from Renaissance. Fruit came forward on the second day.
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Medium to dark garnet. Pronounced aromas of blackciurrant, chocolate, roses, and pencil lead, with a nice savory note of jambon cru and a deft touch of oak. Penetrating fruit on the palate with fresh red and dark cherry flavors, high acids and strong tannins, smoothly integrated, medium to full body, Long finish with a nice aromatic back note. 13% alcohol. A beautifully integrated tapestry, a fine weave of vividly distinct elements.
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Days 1 through 3 were very good. But just that, very good. Pretty straightforward but the fruit was generous but a little sloppy. Nothing really stood out. It almost seemed like I was getting a touch of stewed fruit which confused me because the bottle was stored properly.
I pulled the bottle out of the fridge on day 4 not giving much hope but I figured what the heck, let's finish the last glass and a half.
Good God this wine is tremendous!!! Like old Bordeaux from the late 80s/early 90s!!! This wine gives Monte Bello a run for its money and I think Monte Bello is the greatest claret in the US. The 2012s are not even close to being ready. I wouldn't touch another for a decade if I didn't have a cool 12 sitting in the cellar.
Cherries, manure, wood, cassis, dried herbs, licorice, lavender. Showing zero stew or tomato leaf. This is as complex as I've enjoyed from California. Medium plus tannin, medium plus acidity. This is the textbook definition of velvety tannin.
This has lost much of the baby fat that made it drink mostly on its primary fruit a few years ago. Now it's starting to show some tobacco and cedar. Very well balanced and elegant wine, delicious.
Decanted and enjoyed over 4 hrs. Beautiful wine! Definitely benefits from a decant...I can see the opening was a bit “green” as noted by others. But with some time in the decanter that softened almost completely. Nose is very nuanced with loam, fresh pot pourri, herbaceous (thyme), faint cedar cigar box, fresh ink and graphite. Fruits on the palate: red cherries and cassis. Tannins were still a bit grippy but well balanced and only a good sign of further aging potential!
A beautiful example of Santa Cruz terroir that shows great focus.
At 13% ABV, it shows like no other “big red” from northern Cali.
Was a bit off putting in the beginning. There was some heat and/or VA going on in the glass even after a one hour decant. But through the issues with the nose on Day 1, notes of cherries, stones and earthy spice. Color was dark ruby center transitioning to a clear rim. Taste was better than the nose. I also got cherries and Santa Cruz Mtn terroir. The 16' Monte Bello I had the week before blows this out of the water.
Day 2 was much better. Some of the nose that I did not like on Day 1 blew off for the most part on Day 2. Cherries, plum jam, gravel, wood, and forest floor dominate the nose and taste.
Day 3 my wife and I polished off the bottle and it improved slightly from Day 2. Tannins were smooth and fine. The nose was much much better now and I can see this getting a bit better with age. I disagree with the critics and this is just pushing into the 90+ pt range.
Served blind, I was thrown off track by the green notes and what I took to be signature notes of a hot climate, calling this a Priorat. Even when revealed, I struggled to wrap my head around the combination of crunchy, bright red fruit notes with some apparent heat. Nonetheless, I provocative as well as a tasty treat, fresh and compelling.
78% cab, 10% merlot, 10% Cabernet franc, 2% petit Verdot.
Some sediment on bottle neck. Opaque dark inky violet. Nose dark fruited with prominent herbal cab franc note, hint of tobacco. Palate some tart acidity, great depth, coiled mid palate. Anise, dark fruited. Hint of tobacco leaf.
Initially very tight and unyielding on PnP but a splash decant and a few hours over the course of a night produced much more pleasurable opening of flavors. Still a baby but good potential.
Slight downgrade from two years ago, as the first glass or two seemed way too sweet. Day 2 resolved this. Back to normal. Deep and dark mountain fruit, cab franc flavors even, BlackBerry and gravel and pyrazines. Nice wine and perhaps something was a tad off with the bottle. Always a buy every vintage, drinks well young medium and old.
In spite of its 8 years, first day the wine is still a bit late, but day two you realize what wine this will be. This is a bit typical of the Santa Cruz Mountains (Domaine Eden is almost next door to Ridge Estate), clearly more sophisticated wines, incredibly well-balanced, not so bombastic, less oak, compared to a typical Napa Cab. I prefer both styles, depending entirely on the occasion and what food you have. I will store my remaining two bottles a couple more years in my cellar.
Garnet-purple thing brick rim. Black cherry, cough syrup, raspberry pie filling, clove, all spice, sweet tobacco nose. Medium acidity with smooth integrated tannin with a long finish - plum, pomegranate, raspberry, cherry move to gravel, pencil lead, sous bois, mushroom.
Pnp, drank over 4 hours. Beautiful Bordeaux nose and unlike a typical CA cab. Blackberry, blueberry, floral & earth, forest. Tannins show it can age well but also smooth enough that it’s drinkable now. Don’t agree with 2025 starting window nor the window until 2075. Enjoy now with food & decant, cellar worthy too until 2035.
This is a delicious Cabernet blend - blackberry, boysenberry, cedar, firm backbone, high viscosity, very consistent across the palate with a strong finish. Slow oxed for ~5 hours, sealed and finished next day. Consistent profile and quality from first glass to the last. Wonderful QPR.
Double yum. Spearmint, pencil shaving and cedar, with dark blackberry and black cherry fruit. Very fragrant and behaved well, but there’s some wood that still needs to be shed
A gorgeous wine that glad to have tried early. Yes this will be better in five years, but already drinks so well. Tried a small pour in PnP and let the rest decant for 90 minutes. The nose is already pretty nice but will open up in the future. Perfectly balanced on the palate, you get intense freshness, sweet cassis fruit, some herbs and minerals, and fine tannins that are really quite tame. Only 13% abv on the label, so no trace of heat at all. The wine is mostly primary and thus doesn’t yet merit a higher score, but this is lovely and worth owning to lay down or drink now. 92+
Stone fruit, cassis and moutian berry nose, showing a really nice purity and traditional style of cab fruit. Palate lean more towards the earth with graphite, cedar, bing cherry, and forest. Finish lingers with a nice Montain freshness. For the price this is a very solid representation of Cali cab and would hold its own against a growth bdx.
That’s an amazing bottle of wine. It’s still very young and it has tons of tannins but it has tons of primary And secondary flavors. That’s a definite re-buy.
Too young to open, at least for best results. It's got all the goods, traditional bdx flavor profile, graphite and dark fruit and stones. At times like a graves. Definitely not a fruit bomb. Showing the restrained style, and santa Cruz mountain terroir. I Would hold for 5 years.
Grand Cru Cabernet (pyrmont wharf, sydney): Oof…there's a cliché for you - massive beast wine but, well, none the worse for it this time. Ripe blackcurrant, polished oak, chocolate and spice…actually this is, with time, a little more controlled than I initially thought it would be…more of the same o the palate with a touch of herbaceousness that, when coupled with the alcohol and fruit extraction, puts me in mind of port....
Low alc., definitely on the young side but with 90-120 minutes of Air it opens up very nicely. Will need to buy more. At this price point- ~$70, it blows away Napa Cabs. So well made.
Belated CNY Roast Meats (Beacon Hill): (Day 2) wow, toasted capsicum has certainly emerged, with tomato leaf, cassis, and exotic spice, with just the hint of barnyard funk. India ink, with herbal pastilles. Sappy, chewy, sharp, yet concentrated. This has certainly come alive from yesterday. Now finishing with wet black earth, graphite, fine leather, and incense. Interesting; needs food.
(random midweek) [78% Cab Sav, 10% merlot, 10% Cab Franc, 2% Petite Verdot] Rich, opulent nose of black fruit, cassis, rosemary, sandalwood, patchouli, black plums, violets, olive tepenade and beef bouillon savories, even some coconut cream. With time, some chicken coop complexity. Palate is congruent with sappy fine tannins, bright acidity, black spiced cherries, and surprisingly, some port characters. Still somewhat gangly on the edges, this may need another 5-6 years to really settle down. Spicy fruit on finish, with hints graphite, pleasant black loam, eucalyptus, and just a hint of tomato stem. Graphite and pencil shavings. The acidity really helps to elegantly lift and brighten an otherwise rich and heavy red. At 13%, immensely restrained, showing more poster color clays, edging on chinese ink-wash. A rich, yet balanced, new world cab. Too young, alas, but luscious with some extra-mature montgomery cheddar.
Good nose. Bright complex aromas of blackberries, rose, graphite, with a nice base of oak. Pure deep juice on the palate with a crisp acid frame, firm tannins and long echoing finish. Vivid, chromatic, enlivening. 50 + 18 + 17 + 9.
4/28/2024 - BradleyL wrote: 91 Points
As alluded to by other reviewers, this feels more like a Bordeaux than a typical California Cabernet - darker fruit, somewhat more graphite, and showing signs of maturity/being ready to drink. I think it does need some air to help round it out somewhat, but a very interesting contrast to what you would come to expect from California Cabernets.
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4/27/2024 - Justin S Likes this wine:
I thought this was ready to go pretty much out of the gate. Coming along really nicely with this bottle showing a lot more fruit than the last one, with all the savory flavors in good balance. For me, this wine is drinking now, though of course it has more to show with another 10+ years.
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1/18/2024 - Mezz Likes this wine: 100 Points
Nose of earthy stank (good) hint of blackberry and cassis, dry cobbled riverbed in summer during a stressful paintball match, hints of grandma’s kitchen, small rock gifted from that childhood crush who never loved you the way you loved them. Don’t miss this wine, but please tell me you didn’t drink it too soon. Definitely one of the best Cabernets I’ve ever had. So elegant, so delicate. Few things can compare.
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3/29/2023 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fantastic cab that is still distinctly on the upswing. I'm guessing that in another 5-10 years, this will be firmly in the outstanding range. A far darker profile (lead, dark soil, tobacco, raw cacao, lean dark fruits) than typical California cab. Surprisingly lean and elegant despite that. This is right up my alley. Fortunate are those with bottles to try in the years ahead.
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1/19/2023 - mvande21 wrote: 92 Points
Black fruits, stone and cedar. Structured with significant acidity and firm tannins. Brambly with some mineral notes (that I haven't yet learned to describe) similar to wines from Renaissance. Fruit came forward on the second day.
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4/12/2022 - wgmccallum Likes this wine: 94 Points
Medium to dark garnet. Pronounced aromas of blackciurrant, chocolate, roses, and pencil lead, with a nice savory note of jambon cru and a deft touch of oak. Penetrating fruit on the palate with fresh red and dark cherry flavors, high acids and strong tannins, smoothly integrated, medium to full body, Long finish with a nice aromatic back note. 13% alcohol. A beautifully integrated tapestry, a fine weave of vividly distinct elements.
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3/10/2022 - Joe Gabagool Likes this wine:
Days 1 through 3 were very good. But just that, very good. Pretty straightforward but the fruit was generous but a little sloppy. Nothing really stood out. It almost seemed like I was getting a touch of stewed fruit which confused me because the bottle was stored properly.
I pulled the bottle out of the fridge on day 4 not giving much hope but I figured what the heck, let's finish the last glass and a half.
Good God this wine is tremendous!!! Like old Bordeaux from the late 80s/early 90s!!! This wine gives Monte Bello a run for its money and I think Monte Bello is the greatest claret in the US. The 2012s are not even close to being ready. I wouldn't touch another for a decade if I didn't have a cool 12 sitting in the cellar.
Cherries, manure, wood, cassis, dried herbs, licorice, lavender. Showing zero stew or tomato leaf. This is as complex as I've enjoyed from California. Medium plus tannin, medium plus acidity. This is the textbook definition of velvety tannin.
Love it! Love it! Love it!!
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10/31/2021 - WineJ2019 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Well balanced, as expected less ripe / bold than many Napa cabs but still plenty flavorful
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9/6/2021 - mckillop Likes this wine:
Mount Eden cabs always have a nice dark tone, very french.
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5/15/2021 - Justin S Likes this wine: 93 Points
This has lost much of the baby fat that made it drink mostly on its primary fruit a few years ago. Now it's starting to show some tobacco and cedar. Very well balanced and elegant wine, delicious.
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1/1/2021 - Piccolopaulo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Decanted and enjoyed over 4 hrs. Beautiful wine! Definitely benefits from a decant...I can see the opening was a bit “green” as noted by others. But with some time in the decanter that softened almost completely. Nose is very nuanced with loam, fresh pot pourri, herbaceous (thyme), faint cedar cigar box, fresh ink and graphite. Fruits on the palate: red cherries and cassis. Tannins were still a bit grippy but well balanced and only a good sign of further aging potential!
A beautiful example of Santa Cruz terroir that shows great focus.
At 13% ABV, it shows like no other “big red” from northern Cali.
Enjoy it for another 5-7 yrs!
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11/10/2020 - riesnut wrote: 92 Points
Velvety tannins, very clear cedar and dark fruit aroma. Fresh.
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10/28/2020 - bsumoba wrote: 91 Points
Drank over 3 days.
Day 1: 88
Day 2: 90
Day 3: 91
Was a bit off putting in the beginning. There was some heat and/or VA going on in the glass even after a one hour decant. But through the issues with the nose on Day 1, notes of cherries, stones and earthy spice. Color was dark ruby center transitioning to a clear rim. Taste was better than the nose. I also got cherries and Santa Cruz Mtn terroir. The 16' Monte Bello I had the week before blows this out of the water.
Day 2 was much better. Some of the nose that I did not like on Day 1 blew off for the most part on Day 2. Cherries, plum jam, gravel, wood, and forest floor dominate the nose and taste.
Day 3 my wife and I polished off the bottle and it improved slightly from Day 2. Tannins were smooth and fine. The nose was much much better now and I can see this getting a bit better with age. I disagree with the critics and this is just pushing into the 90+ pt range.
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9/29/2020 - JonnyG Likes this wine: 92 Points
Served blind, I was thrown off track by the green notes and what I took to be signature notes of a hot climate, calling this a Priorat. Even when revealed, I struggled to wrap my head around the combination of crunchy, bright red fruit notes with some apparent heat. Nonetheless, I provocative as well as a tasty treat, fresh and compelling.
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5/23/2020 - fred o. Likes this wine:
78% cab, 10% merlot, 10% Cabernet franc, 2% petit Verdot.
Some sediment on bottle neck. Opaque dark inky violet. Nose dark fruited with prominent herbal cab franc note, hint of tobacco. Palate some tart acidity, great depth, coiled mid palate. Anise, dark fruited. Hint of tobacco leaf.
Initially very tight and unyielding on PnP but a splash decant and a few hours over the course of a night produced much more pleasurable opening of flavors. Still a baby but good potential.
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5/8/2020 - jeffreylubowski Likes this wine: 90 Points
Slight downgrade from two years ago, as the first glass or two seemed way too sweet. Day 2 resolved this. Back to normal. Deep and dark mountain fruit, cab franc flavors even, BlackBerry and gravel and pyrazines. Nice wine and perhaps something was a tad off with the bottle. Always a buy every vintage, drinks well young medium and old.
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4/26/2020 - SirJ Likes this wine: 92 Points
In spite of its 8 years, first day the wine is still a bit late, but day two you realize what wine this will be. This is a bit typical of the Santa Cruz Mountains (Domaine Eden is almost next door to Ridge Estate), clearly more sophisticated wines, incredibly well-balanced, not so bombastic, less oak, compared to a typical Napa Cab. I prefer both styles, depending entirely on the occasion and what food you have.
I will store my remaining two bottles a couple more years in my cellar.
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3/5/2020 - T.E.D. wrote: 93 Points
Very solid and well made. Complex with black and blue fruits coupled with cedar, cigar, pine and forest. Bdx style.
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10/11/2019 - jvphoto Likes this wine: 91 Points
Garnet-purple thing brick rim. Black cherry, cough syrup, raspberry pie filling, clove, all spice, sweet tobacco nose. Medium acidity with smooth integrated tannin with a long finish - plum, pomegranate, raspberry, cherry move to gravel, pencil lead, sous bois, mushroom.
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10/5/2019 - df1962 wrote: 93 Points
Opened for 2days by MB
Had a taste.
Awesome nose classic cab with mineral and herbal notes.
Delicious rich complex and balanced. Amazing.
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6/9/2019 - patwjr Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pnp, drank over 4 hours. Beautiful Bordeaux nose and unlike a typical CA cab. Blackberry, blueberry, floral & earth, forest. Tannins show it can age well but also smooth enough that it’s drinkable now. Don’t agree with 2025 starting window nor the window until 2075. Enjoy now with food & decant, cellar worthy too until 2035.
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5/15/2019 - FlyPig Likes this wine: 95 Points
This is a delicious Cabernet blend - blackberry, boysenberry, cedar, firm backbone, high viscosity, very consistent across the palate with a strong finish. Slow oxed for ~5 hours, sealed and finished next day. Consistent profile and quality from first glass to the last. Wonderful QPR.
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5/3/2019 - jviz wrote: 94 Points
Double yum. Spearmint, pencil shaving and cedar, with dark blackberry and black cherry fruit. Very fragrant and behaved well, but there’s some wood that still needs to be shed
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12/17/2018 - Justin S Likes this wine: 92 Points
A gorgeous wine that glad to have tried early. Yes this will be better in five years, but already drinks so well. Tried a small pour in PnP and let the rest decant for 90 minutes. The nose is already pretty nice but will open up in the future. Perfectly balanced on the palate, you get intense freshness, sweet cassis fruit, some herbs and minerals, and fine tannins that are really quite tame. Only 13% abv on the label, so no trace of heat at all. The wine is mostly primary and thus doesn’t yet merit a higher score, but this is lovely and worth owning to lay down or drink now. 92+
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11/16/2018 - T.E.D. wrote: 93 Points
Stone fruit, cassis and moutian berry nose, showing a really nice purity and traditional style of cab fruit. Palate lean more towards the earth with graphite, cedar, bing cherry, and forest. Finish lingers with a nice Montain freshness. For the price this is a very solid representation of Cali cab and would hold its own against a growth bdx.
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5/11/2018 - mpsocal Likes this wine: 94 Points
That’s an amazing bottle of wine. It’s still very young and it has tons of tannins but it has tons of primary And secondary flavors. That’s a definite re-buy.
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5/4/2018 - Gunakadeit Likes this wine: 94 Points
The nose is unbelievable. Needs time, and not as complex as I think it will become, but it will be worth the wait.
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3/11/2018 - jeffreylubowski Likes this wine: 91 Points
Too young to open, at least for best results. It's got all the goods, traditional bdx flavor profile, graphite and dark fruit and stones. At times like a graves. Definitely not a fruit bomb. Showing the restrained style, and santa Cruz mountain terroir. I Would hold for 5 years.
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2/16/2018 - T.E.D. wrote: 92 Points
Very well made and pure. Showing a youthfulness with bright cassi, black fruits followed by some sweet tobacco, iron, and graphite. Medium finish.
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1/2/2018 - scott w Does not like this wine:
Did not like at all, this bottle was stewed fruits, might have been flawed.
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10/28/2017 - KVM wrote:
medium+ crimson. Nose tends to the red currant and pomegranate and herbs. Light in the mouth, athletically structured, refreshing and long.
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5/18/2017 - chatters wrote:
Grand Cru Cabernet (pyrmont wharf, sydney): Oof…there's a cliché for you - massive beast wine but, well, none the worse for it this time. Ripe blackcurrant, polished oak, chocolate and spice…actually this is, with time, a little more controlled than I initially thought it would be…more of the same o the palate with a touch of herbaceousness that, when coupled with the alcohol and fruit extraction, puts me in mind of port....
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4/11/2017 - VinoPKM wrote: 93 Points
Low alc., definitely on the young side but with 90-120 minutes of Air it opens up very nicely. Will need to buy more.
At this price point- ~$70, it blows away Napa Cabs. So well made.
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4/5/2017 - 560 B&W Likes this wine: 90 Points
Decanted. In the style I prefer, but somehow not excelling. Perhaps needs time. 13%
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3/25/2017 - yarnon Likes this wine: 94 Points
Intense perfumed nose.
Medium tannins high acid, balanced, very long finish.
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2/12/2017 - JerM wrote: 93 Points
Belated CNY Roast Meats (Beacon Hill): (Day 2) wow, toasted capsicum has certainly emerged, with tomato leaf, cassis, and exotic spice, with just the hint of barnyard funk. India ink, with herbal pastilles. Sappy, chewy, sharp, yet concentrated. This has certainly come alive from yesterday. Now finishing with wet black earth, graphite, fine leather, and incense. Interesting; needs food.
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2/11/2017 - JerM wrote: 93 Points
(random midweek) [78% Cab Sav, 10% merlot, 10% Cab Franc, 2% Petite Verdot] Rich, opulent nose of black fruit, cassis, rosemary, sandalwood, patchouli, black plums, violets, olive tepenade and beef bouillon savories, even some coconut cream. With time, some chicken coop complexity. Palate is congruent with sappy fine tannins, bright acidity, black spiced cherries, and surprisingly, some port characters. Still somewhat gangly on the edges, this may need another 5-6 years to really settle down. Spicy fruit on finish, with hints graphite, pleasant black loam, eucalyptus, and just a hint of tomato stem. Graphite and pencil shavings. The acidity really helps to elegantly lift and brighten an otherwise rich and heavy red. At 13%, immensely restrained, showing more poster color clays, edging on chinese ink-wash. A rich, yet balanced, new world cab. Too young, alas, but luscious with some extra-mature montgomery cheddar.
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11/11/2016 - wgmccallum Likes this wine: 94 Points
Good nose. Bright complex aromas of blackberries, rose, graphite, with a nice base of oak. Pure deep juice on the palate with a crisp acid frame, firm tannins and long echoing finish. Vivid, chromatic, enlivening. 50 + 18 + 17 + 9.
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10/27/2016 - Sundbyberg wrote: 92 Points
Tasting: I really liked this wine. Reminded of the French version of Bordeaux.
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