Needed 1 cup of Cab for a recipe and the wife brought this home from the store. Nice blue and red fruit to go along with some nice oak chips. Worked in the recipe but was way outclassed by the 02 L'Ecole. Not bad for the $ though.
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Another great value from BG. Overall this vintage lacked the bold fruits and flavors that the 2005 had, still a very good bottle of wine for the price.
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Nose started out kind of vegetal but after about 10 minutes opened up very nicely with red berries and currant. Mouth feel is very pleasant and smooth, lots of fruit on the palate, cherries, red berries, a bit of oak, tannins are restrained but evident. This is a very nice wine, nice long finish. Day 2- wine is showing even better,the finish has evolved nicely with some allspice aspects.
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Very Good For the first 2 hours this had nothing going on. Very thin; almost no flavor. But then the fruit started to come out, and the tannins started to grip, and it became a very good Cabernet.
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12/27/2012 - vinoKillian wrote:
two bottles were bad.
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2/3/2011 - ecola wrote: 90 Points
Much better than I thought. Very deep flavors of cherry, vanilla, and spicy oak. Moderate tannins and smooth mouthfeel. ($14)
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9/21/2010 - jsanko wrote: 87 Points
Tobacco and chocolate. Deep purple color. Very smooth.
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7/5/2009 - Vinsant wrote: 84 Points
Needed 1 cup of Cab for a recipe and the wife brought this home from the store. Nice blue and red fruit to go along with some nice oak chips. Worked in the recipe but was way outclassed by the 02 L'Ecole. Not bad for the $ though.
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6/16/2009 - jagangjee wrote: 88 Points
yummy
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3/30/2009 - jagangjee wrote: 88 Points
Another great value from BG. Overall this vintage lacked the bold fruits and flavors that the 2005 had, still a very good bottle of wine for the price.
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3/8/2009 - stercomm wrote: 90 Points
Nose started out kind of vegetal but after about 10 minutes opened up very nicely with red berries and currant. Mouth feel is very pleasant and smooth, lots of fruit on the palate, cherries, red berries, a bit of oak, tannins are restrained but evident. This is a very nice wine, nice long finish. Day 2- wine is showing even better,the finish has evolved nicely with some allspice aspects.
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11/20/2008 - pkbackman wrote: 86 Points
Very Good
For the first 2 hours this had nothing going on. Very thin; almost no flavor. But then the fruit started to come out, and the tannins started to grip, and it became a very good Cabernet.
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3/14/2008 - KeithAkers wrote: 86 Points
a tasting of new releases: nose: big ripe nose of cherry, vanilla, and oak
taste: nice and smooth with solid ripe cherry notes and vanilla tones
overall: nice and easy drinking fruit forward cab. Very pleasant with a decent attack and finish
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