Rating would be 90. Drinking it’s age. Super soft tannins with dark fruit and good acidity and structure. Caymus old school. Perfectly crafted in its prime and still highly enjoyable. Recommend to drink now.
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First bottle to be emptied at a wine tasting. Certainly has a reputation. Pretty sure three of the other wines clearly were better. Consistently Caymus.
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I misplaced this bottle and just stumbled across it. Surprisingly fresh. Modest bricking. Complex aroma featuring dark fruit, tar, and cinnamon. Taste is surprisingly fruity. Alcohol is noticeable. Since I thought it was a lost cause this was a great bonus find
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Pop and pour; slight bricking around the edges but shows more youthful than the vintage on the bottle. Wonderful bouquet that opens with notes of cedar, wild game and brooding raspberries. Secondary hints of spearmint, iodine, and an ever so subtle bell pepper rounding out the nose. On the palate, bright red fruits marry perfectly with supplemental flavours of olive tapenade and chinotto. Dusty smooth tannins support a beautiful structure with balanced alcohol and lip smacking acidity. An elegant wine drinking at its peak that keeps you coming back for more after a 40+ second finish. Outstanding.
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WSET II tasting evening: Intensity medium. Fruit on the sweet side: blackberry, black cherry, dough, liquiroce, meat, white pepper, herbal. Tannins medium(+). Acidity medium. Finish medium(+). Alcohol a tad overwhelming.
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WSET 2 group tasting (My place, Utrecht, NL): After 16 years still so much fruit! Medium+ intensity on the nose with plum, black ripe cherries, bacons, spices, vacurub, licorice, sweet fruit. Medium acidity, medium+ finely engrained tannins, very long finish. The 15% abv does show. 92-93
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Decanted for about an hour and drank over the next couple hours. It could have benefitted from a longer decant. It was smokey and slightly bitter on the finish upon opening. Over the following few hours it opened up and evened out. More fruit came out (red and black), along with molasses and cedar. A hint of smoke was still there, but the bitterness disappeared. Overall pretty enjoyable.
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Still chugging along, albeit not terribly complex. Nice balance of fruit and other typical cab characteristics. Drink up - probably will not improve with further age.
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My last bottle and the best or 4. I've had this bottle a long time and figured it was near the end of its drinking window. I do not like Caymus since they went to being mass produced with added vanilla and sugar, but this wine was excellent, balanced, smooth, good mouthfeel and very good acidity. What a treat and a bigger surprise. Too bad they don't make a cab like this anymore.
Decanted with light sediment, tasted after 30 minutes in decanter, last bottle of six, consistent scores since first bottle reviewed more than a decade ago. Pleasant nose, typical dark fruits on palate, dark plum, dark currants, cassis, classic Caymus RS, vanilla and oak, fully integrated, so drink soon
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Encore une fois, déception. Boisé et assez extrait. Fruits noirs et tannins serrés avec un arrière-gout de sirop contre la toux! Pas dans ma palette depuis quelques années cette cuvée!
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Pleasant wine. Has somewhat of a taste of "over-extraction" and some "medicinal" flavors. Almost an undercurrent of cough syrup. Very drinkable if you like this style. Old prunes, cough syrup, medicinal. 90 pts.
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For steak dessert, 2007 Caymus Classic. Chuck, why oh why, did you change the original styling of this wine?
I ran out of my cellared Caymus Classic. Classic is pre 2012 vintage. In 2012, it was changed to a highly marketable consumer friendly wine syrup that drink well early for some. I can’t palate it.
I recently went to the secondary market and found some beautifully stored 2007. Missed it.
The nose reveals, stewed & candied; blackberries, black raspberries, both plums, black cherries, poached strawberries, raspberries, boysenberries, full scorched earth, grey clay, potpourri, dark under stated ambers, dark, moist forrest floor, dry sage, notes of Worcestershire sauce, eucalyptus with withering; dark, red, purple flowers.
The mouthfeel is glorious with balance & length. Ripe fruits of; stewed & candied; blackberries, black raspberries, both plums, black cherries, poached strawberries, raspberries, boysenberries, blueberries hovering over all the rest, scorched earth, dark spice with subtle yet punctuating heat, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon & vanillin, dry crushed, limestone rocks, grey, mud clay, potpourri, dark under stated ambers, dark, moist forrest floor, oak char, expresso, black licorice, dry sage, notes of Worcestershire sauce hues, eucalyptus/mint with withering; dark, red, purple flowers. The acidity is a rushing, spring mountain river. The length, balance fruit & earth, elegance, polish would captivate most any discerning palate.
Chuck, I think you should make both Caymus Syrup & Caymus Classic again.
She is at the tail end of her precipice.
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A friend opened this last night for dinner (I brought a 2003 Grand Puy Lacoste). I had never had a Caymus as Cali is not of interest to me much. And this one had a yellow label, which I see the "Napa Cuvee" has, but since there are no notes for this vintage under that entry, I figured to post this here. I certainly enjoyed this. Particularly, I really did not detect much unintegrated oak. It's a fairly dense and heavy wine which did not seem hot despite the 15% declared ABV. Some raisiny notes. Not energetic but placid. Not as tannic as the GPL. Not bad at all. Wouldn't purchase this myself but would not recoil if offered it again!
Decanted 30 min, no sediment. Very dark color, rich and one dimensional, dark berries, some RS but in check, a bit of vanilla but also in check, little structure or acidity, one bottle left which I feel a need to drink in the near future. I was hoping for more from this vintage of Caymus but 90 points is not half bad!!!
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Another solid bottle. Decanted for 3+ hours before drinking. I wanted to do longer, but my planning didn't work out. Great color. Great nose. A ton of sediment, so decanting helps. Not too jammy even though it's a fruity wine. My opinion is Caymus works just fine if you pair it with the right food. In this case the hangar steak recipe from the Susan Goin's AOC cookbook which has some zip and an excellent chimicurri sauce. The wine was very enjoyable after the meal too. Since I purchased a case fo this wine and the 2007 vintage was great, I'd summarize my experience by recommending a hold for the first 10-12 years if you can. Know that's not realistic. Then give any openings a ton of airtime (5+ hours) to get be full benefit. I have 3 '07's left, some 09's and some 12's and I'll make sure I give them more time to open.
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Jammy and very CA cab and very delish! Loads of red and dark berries, Asian spices, some cinnamon, some anise and black licorice on the end. Mouth coating with no hard edges and a long pleasant finish. Sweet fruit but still savory. Def at its peak as I can’t imagine it gets better as the fruit will likely diminish and this is all about the fruit.
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This is a very smooth cab with wonderful tannins. It is fruit forward and hedonistic. The aroma is good but leaves you wondering if this wine is going to be awesome or so so. My opinion landed on awesome but I like more hedonistic wines. This is a crowd pleaser and I am very glad I have 2 more. Although this is ready for action I think it can wait a couple years. I don't think it will improve or decline in the overall taste experience.
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07 caymus- ripe w sweetness consistent w house style -92 08 Ramey- best balance of the bunch, nicely done -94 09 Forman - bretty, tasted like Bordeaux. Flawed, not supposed to be this bretty 09 rothwell Hyde - best fruit, but a little over ripe. 93
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Smooth ans velvety with a great finish. Lots of blackberry, juicy plump dark fruit and nicely integrated vanilla oaky notes that ad to this wines sexy elegance. Decent acidity at this point. Easy drinking and very enjoyable. Probably really good for three more years or so. But who knows. Drink now-2023.
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Too much of everything....the wood/vanilla is still too present. Needs lots more time for the wood to integrate but lots of fruit to let time bring it together.
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Blind, one thing is for sure, having tried their 2015 & 2016, Caymus no longer make this type of full throttle in your face, jammy fruit bombs. A crowd pleasure which does not offer much complexity now. Needs heavy fatty foods. Drinking window in Cellar tracker states to drink by 2018, this is no where near end of life. More like 20 years of life ahead of it, I would even bet longer.
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Surprised how well it's still holding up. I disagree with CT drinking window. Presence of very smooth and velvety tannins and nice balanced acidity suggested, to me at least, 5 more years or so before any decline. Very nice nose and palate of rich cassis and intriguing secondary notes of leather and chocolate. Excellent on both days 1 and 2. This is probably one of the last Caymus vintages closer to the beloved older style before they started make over-ripped (still delicious) fruit compotes. I''l revisit my last bottle in 5 years. Cheers!
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Dire que j`ai déjà aimé ce vin, dans certains millésimes il sont bien et gardent leur fruit bien dosé mais ce 2007 et les millésimes plus récent sont surfait et manque d`acidité je trouve qui me fait beaucoup douter pour la garde à moyen et long terme. Comme d`autres ici, je trouve qu`il est correct mais pas mal sur sont plateau, le fruit est en retrait, on a encore du boisé et une impression de chauffe mais c`est tout, manque de complexité et de longueur. Dommage.
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good, but far far from great; I think this wine is near or at its peak right now, so drink in the next couple years or you take a risk of being disappointed.
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Opened 3 hours prior to drinking. This wine is in a great place right now and is a great example of Caymus. I bought a case and have consumed 7 bottles between 2014 and 2019. Holding the wine and Giving the wine time to open made a big difference. Enjoy.
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This wine held up very well to over a decade in our cellar. Not an overly expressive nose. Layers of cassis, mocha, mint and blueberries. A wonderful finish.
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Corked. The polyethylene plastic wrap trick worked for the most part. Real shame, despite the cork taint, you could taste the nice fruit and the hint of something special.
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Big, bold, punch you in the face NV Cab. Even after 13 years, the fruit is still very much forward but it has developed some secondary and tertiary flavors like sweet tobacco, leather, and cigar box. This one is ready but could maybe use another year or 2, but no more. When the bold, up front fruit starts to break down, you could lose this wine.
C: Deep purple with tawny hues developing at the rim
N: Ripe dark fruit, Leather, Cigar Box
P: Bold, very ripe black fruit (Cassis, Brambleberry), baking spices, sweet tobacco
F: Long finish of spice and leather
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This is the “old style” Camus, not the post 2012 vintages over extracted, high alcohol fruit bomb. Very deep purple color. Powerful nose of prunes, cooked black fruit, vanilla,chocolate, leather and game. Fully developed wine. On the palate it is dry with medium plus acidity, very refined medium tannins, high alcohol, full body, pronounced flavors of dried cherries, chocolate, leather, tar. Finish is medium. Very good wine. Drink up, should not be aged any further
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Still powerful and delicious. Perhaps losing some mid structure, but it doesn't detract at all. Paired very well with my rib eye steak and roasted potatoes. But, if you still have any around, it's time!
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Bu au resto AVV le Méchant Steak, offrande de Marc. Il l'avait carafé 3 heures et bu sur +/- 1 heure au resto! Encore décevante cette cuvée, rien à voir avec le Special Selection qui lui malgré sa hausse fulgurante de $, est toujours superbe... j'ai compris depuis ce millésime et je n'ancave plus cette cuvée. Fruits compotés et surfait, grosse prunes, c'est lourd et pataud, avec une acidité déficiente pour ne pas dire inexistante cette fois. Long et sur la chauffe. Nope!
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I love this....drank it at a friend's house. Smooth...great nose. If all Cabs could be like this, the world would be a better place. Silky....beautiful after being decanted.
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- Brick color with medium forming legs and aromas of raspberry and blackberry. It's in total harmony and has flavours of strawberry and strawberry jam with a medium/full body. Satin-Like texture with a short finish.
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The wine looks brick colored. The legs are slow. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like strawberry, blueberry and raspberry. It tastes like blackberry, blueberry and raspberry. The body is medium/full. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes short. The wine has high acidity.
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Pas vraiment d'amélioration ici...encore boisé, sur-extrait, surfait, sucré et capiteux. Je ne touche plus à cette cuvée depuis ce millésime sauf si quelqu'un l'apporte en déguste...et ça confirme ma pensée. Il faut allonger les $ et y aller avec leur Special Selection qui est depuis quelques millésime, hors d'atteinte malheureusement.
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- Brick color with medium forming legs and has flavours of blackberry, black currant, strawberry and licorice anise with a medium body. Smooth texture with a short finish - This wine is at its prim or slightly past.
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Very attractive. This has gotten a bit better with bottle age, lovely dark fruit, nice concentration, everything is so resolved at this stage of its evolution. Not sure if it gets better from here as it may just loose some of its power. The style of Caymus has changed completely since the '11 vintage and I never buy it any more but these older solid vintages are very nice, though likely over-priced now.
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I finally drank the last 2007 Caymus in my cellar. I had feared that it may be declining. I was wrong. It was fantastic and still strong. I could have waited another year or two but it is well Within the window. I only wish I had more.
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My notes say that earlier bottles of this were the best Caymus wines I had ever had. That is not the case now. It is not bad yet, but is clearly tiring. I would be a drinker.
Second night comments......was back to being a 93-95 rated wine. Completely different from the first night, when it was open at least 3 hours and did not show much. I just do not expect a 10+ year old bottle of California Cab to behave like this. I guess I will have to go with a multi-hour decant for the next bottle.
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I only have have a 1/2 dozen bottles of vintages that predate the 2012 vintage when Caymus still made wines in a style I appreciated. More; tannic, spice, earth and complexity.
Now, they are amongst the last to pick fruit, which translates into higher brix levels and much sweeter wines. They pick just as the grapes start to show the slightest raisin shrivel.
I thought I might be early on the 2007. Instead, it’s right around its peak form.
The nose reveals dark black currants. Ripe; blackberries, black plum, black raspberries, stewed plum, dark cherries, stewed strawberries and creamy raspberries. Dark spice, black tea, mixed dark berry cola, limestone minerals, rich dark soil, some dry crushed rocks, vanilla, cinnamon, sweet tarry notes, just a touch of eucalyptus with blue, purple and dark red fresh & withering flowers.
The body is full. Tannins round, grainy, tarry, sticky and meaty...60% resolved. Still lots of life in this 07....another 7-10 years of good drinking left. The wine is delicious. The structure, tension, length and balance are in a great spot. Ripe; dark black currants, blackberries, black plum, black raspberries, boysenberries, stewed plum, dark cherries, stewed strawberries and creamy raspberries. Dark spice with some palate heat, soft, understated and well integrated baking spices; light vanilla, clove and cinnamon. Black tea, mixed dark berry cola, black licorice, limestone minerals, rich dark soil, some dry crushed rocks, vanilla, cinnamon, sweet tarry notes, just a touch of eucalyptus with blue, purple and dark red fresh & withering flowers. The acidity is round and perfect. The flavors glorious. The long finish is extremely well balanced, seamless, it glides over the palate effortlessly and last minutes.
Decanted for an hour before we poured our first glass. The nose consisted of mocha, toast, mint, blueberries and black pepper. The palate was lush and had great layers of mint, black pepper, chocolate and ripe figs. This wine is still very structured, enjoyable and still not past it's prime.
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Well structured at its age, rich with fruit but with a bay leaf or bramble character. Decanting and 2nd day improved that aspect. Otherwise quite ready at 11 years old.
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Drank this bottle decanted for an hour without food. My buddy Antonio and I tried this bottle after a less than enthusiastic tasting of a Chateau Les Grands Marechaux. This type of wine isn't my thing, so take that into consideration. I thought this bottle was slightly out of balance, and the fruit didn't really shine. The alcohol was too high, and all my usual criticisms of Napa cab over the past 20 years apply. The wine was sweet, and I have to say, nearly cloying. If this is your style, you will probably think this is a great bottle, but I didn't find much going on that was interesting, contemplative, or enticing.
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The wine has low acidity. The wine finishes medium. It tastes like honey, black currant (cassis) and cherry. The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. The wine has polished texture.
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Note: based on our community this wine is through its window, I would guess it’s at peak and likely has another five years. The wine has lots of sulphate which are likely contributing.
Purple and opaque. The nose is very fruit for are dominated by dark fruit. The fruit spills over onto the palate and is complimented by a hint of liquorish. Beautiful and better expected. 5+12+18+8=93
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A massive vanilla & oak shake in a bottle. Perfect cork and wham, a bit youthful and really big. Other bottles were more ready to drink than this one. 15% Alcohol
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Decanted and drank over 5 hours. Nose has lavender, vanilla, and a little baking spice notes. Palate is soft with muted red/blue fruits... but not very complex. In its simplicity, it is still very enjoyable. It is smooth and balanced. Tannins are still holding on.. but fine grained and adds a little enjoyable tartness to the finish.
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I'm totally confused here. I'm a big Caymus fan from way back, but this struck me as one of those big, tannic monsters whose fruit never came through (two nights under pump). Lots of stuffing there, but it just never was a pleasure to drink by normal Caymus standards. Someone please explain.
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Decanted and drank over 4 hours. Dark Purple, dark sweet fruit, spice, cassis, medium body with nice structure and balance. It was best early so not sure a long decant needed.
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Very dark red/purple color. PNP, drank 2 glasses over 2 hours. Very good out of the gate, the nose shines and shows quite pretty dark fruits, black raspberry, cassis, and black cherry all with an aromatic bright character mixed with tobacco and light earthiness. over time there is more spice and some background oak. The palate was reflective of the nose initially and showed brambly dark fruits, blackberry, cassis, blackberry liqueur, and hints of mountain cherry on top of the pepper, spice, tobacco and medium, well defined tannins. After an hour plus I found this showing a little alcohol and the fruit seemed to lose a bit of its vibrancy and the oak was more apparent. Probably best to consume these over the short term. 91+ to 92pts.
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The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are medium. Pungent. Hot. Alcohol on the nose. Full bodied, borderline chewy. Dried fruits. Hints of pepper. Tannins, but not overpowering. Lacks complexity. May be slightly past its peak. But still a very good wine.
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En carafe pour un bon 3 heures et bu sur une période 1 presque 2 heures avant et pendant le repas, de la bavette mariné au porto servi avec sauce au poivre et pleurotes! Bu en même temps que le Kenwod Artist series 2007 et les 2 sont encore assez boisés, extraits et costauds... je dirais qu le petit côté vanillé ressort plus dans le Caymus en ce moment. Le nez est sur vanille, l`élevage et les bleuets. Une pointe de poivrons aussi mais moins que le Kenwood. En bouche, c`est très fruités et ça rempli la bouche, pas mal de mache et des tannins assez charnus, un brin asséchants. Super long mais avec un peu de chauffe. Plus d`acidité que le Kenwood, me donne un peu plus d`espérance pour mes autres bouteilles.
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Opened via Coravin to compare to the Special Selection of the same year. The nose is dead on, slightly less spicy, less but still heavily oaked and not as complex, but only a slight step down from the Special Selection. Firm tannins, lots of years left. The chocolate cherries are still there
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I loved this wine when it was younger, but as it ages it seems to get more heavy-handed. Still lots of deep, dark fruit, but the oak is more pronounced and the acid doesn't come through. Showing it's alcohol, oak, and extraction now, without the vibrancy that balanced it before.
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Quite good and worth the wait. Tannins are mostly integrated. Velvety and smooth with gobs of black fruit and a hint of alcohol on the finish. Drinking perfectly now and I can't see this one getting much better. I'll never know for sure, as this is my last bottle.
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Opened at dinner party for Farran. Only had a small glass, and no detailed notes. My overall impression was Meh... The fruit has faded somewhat here making this a bit less over the top, but it didn't have the complexity to go with being more mature. Just OK -- not a style that I like anymore. Not a good value for the $65 I paid.
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Core color a deep garnet. Nice nose of red fruits, earth and coffee. Palate was red currant, plums, savory notes. Medium weight and finish. Sweetened tannins, resolved.
Nice enough wine in a good spot but I didnt find it showed much depth. Finish lacked any real complexity. Maybe past its prime, doesn have the depth of the Caymus Special Selection wines... drink now
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This wine was terrific a few years ago, but now it's really hitting it's stride. The nose is elegant and plush with hints of bing cherries, mint, toast and pepper. The mouthfeel is lush with soft tannins and layers of red figs, cherries, cassis, mint, pencil lead and cocoa. This wine has rewarded us from time in the cellar.
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Opened and poured into big-ass Bordeaux glasses about an hour before tasting. Nice nose - currants and espresso. Mostly currants on the palate, with a someone disappointing lack of complexity. Quite rich, with a long, seamless, and rich finish. Holding up very well (unlike the '06s I had last year). Solid wine, albeit overpriced.
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Last bottle from this vintage and tasted right after opening. It has softened over the years. Still a plush wine but less so today and it has not added depth or complexity. Modest benefit, if any, that I can see to sitting on these. Drink 'em young.
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Decanted 45 minutes. Red/black plums and creamy root beer to my nose. Definitely modern, round and thick. Red/black fruit with a big hit of oaky vanilla. Sweet tannins all but resolved. Was missing some edginess and angularity. Went well with grilled chicken with an ancho chile rub. Drink now.
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Smooth yet shows plenty of depth and intensity; wonderful, robust blackberry fruit, with hints of mocha and oak/vanilla. This wine drinks really well, nice and plush.
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Decanted for two hours enabled extremely soft tannins and just the right amount of acidity. Not a big nose but son licorice, red figs, mint and toast. Nice mouthfeel with layers of toast, cocoa, toffee, mint, cassis and figs. Very nice wine that has cellared really well.
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I didn't get a chance to decant this wine before drinking, and had it with Korean bbq. It lacked the deliciousness from prior tastings, but still showed the concentration with decent acidity. The pure fruit compote didn't show through as much this time around, with a little more heat/alcohol prominent. Not much in the way of secondary flavors.
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Big wine. IMHO I think it needed a longer decant and/or more time in the bottle. A bit hot and too big perhaps. Very CA cab with loads of fruit, big perfume, and some heat. I'll let my remaining bottles age longer
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A spectacular wine from a spectacular year. Fruit forward, great body, smooth tannins. The aroma was remarkable - earthy and rich. Shared with great friends over a good meal.
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5 years since last tasting, and this is a great example of a calicab with some age. Not decanted but allowed to breathe for 45 mins. Should have decanted. Young wood, glycerin, vanilla, tar on the nose. Great balance on the palate; smooth mouthfeel gently coats, no dust. Blackberry, dark plum....this is all about dark fruit, but with age that removes any "in-your-face" that's too typical of many callback. Fruit shows its Lewelling vineyard heritage, but definitely a different winemaking style. In a great place at present, can last to 2018+ but drinking close to peak today
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It's been 6 years since last tasted. Tannins have integrated now. Creamy soft mouthfeel. Very dark and high concentration. Sort of makes me wonder if mega purple is the foundation if this wine.
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True to its style, ripe, rich, concentrated, sweet, milk/dark chocolate, and some heat. Better without food as a quaff, fruit forward Napa cab. Drink now or next few years.
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Another strong showing from Caymus. A bit stronger and more tannic than the typical smooth Caymus. Still a bit primary. Would suggest it's still a year or two away from it's peak.
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Better than I'd expected and holding up fine. Beautiful nose. All kinds of berries, with not-so-subtle notes of spice, vanilla and leather. Fairly rich, with a very long, rich finish. Classic Napa Cabernet. Tasted right after an '09 Pride Cabernet, and (surprisingly) I liked the Caymus a little more.
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Four hour Vinturi decant. Last of the great wines from this producer. Beautiful dark violet color. Wonderful bouquet of dark candied fruit, sweet berries and spice, with dry notes of wet leather, tobacco and mild forest floor. Just beautiful. It seems to me that this '07 may (sadly) be the final vintage of "Caymus of Old" before their apparent shift towards creating immediately approachable and somewhat overextracted, sweet and flabby CAbs meant for expense-account-steakhouse consumption early in their life. Perhaps this strategy will be profitable for them, but it will send me elsewhere... If I can find any 2007s, I'm buying them up, because I have no real interest in continuing my vertical, as sad as that makes me. Caymus from 2008 to present remind me of 1985's New Coke reformulation fiasco...
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Excellent Cabernet. Decant for 1 hr. Wonderful cedar and full rich flavors of red fruit with soft luscious tannins. Prepped and opened for a small(ish) Cab dinner so notes are a bit sparse but was WOTN. Our wonderful host even threw a Hail Mary by swithing gears and busting out a 1993 Grange to try and de-throne the Caymus. No sale! ( but we did appreciate the attempt:-)
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Decanted, no sediment! Plum, dark cherry and chocolate on the nose, fruit driven palate, with dark cherry, dark plum, sweet currants, vanilla cherry cola, long lush finish, that turned tart at the end. This a rich, smooth yet balanced Napa cab where the tannins seem fully integrated, drinking well now or over the next couple of years.
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Served with roast chicken and new potatoes with Jim and Judy Voelz. A complex, unique taste -- maybe a hint of eucalyptus? Very delicious. Decanted about 30 minutes before serving. Compared to Chimney Rock.
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Our Christmas Eve wine for four of the last five years and tonight it is as good as it has ever been. Slightly closed at first but opened up in glass within 15 minutes. The oak has almost completely dissipated. Ripe luscious cherry fruit and spice. A Merry Christmas for sure after this bottle.
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Aging well as fruit and "size" of the wine is moderating. Still a rich, dark, heavy wine but nothing as exaggerated as the last three vintages. Nice complexity. Finish was on the short side for me. A crowd pleaser.
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Deep, purple color. Fruit forward style, as others have posited, but this works for me. In balance, with a lingering finish. Drank for a celebration-- unfortunately suffered a bit from inferior glassware. This is at a good time and may have some time left, but no need to wait.
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Dark garnet. Black fruit and mineral nose. Awkward phase? Good fruit, but heavy on the oak and vanilla but light on the acidity. Tannins still there at the end and the four previous bottles, about one per year, have shown better balance. Will visit this bottle again tomorrow.
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Same as 2012 note, that is, the vanilla/candy flavors have lessened, with smooth berry and mocha flavors and aromas. No decanting, and there was a very small amount of sediment at end. Drinking very nicely. Everyone enjoyed with Italian food -- pastas, salmon and scampi.
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Deep red/purple to edge. Initial nose of cassis and black fruit with a touch of red fruit. Rich, balanced with notable tannins. Good flavors of cassis and Rutherford Fruit. Med-long lingering finish. Very good example of a Rutherford Cab. Reminded me of the old BV Rutherford Cabs. 93+ after 4 hours in the decanter. Took that long to reach its full expression. Will last for many more years.
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Great nose and dark fruit up front. Turns spicey mid pallete into a dark fruit/cocoa finish which seemed to last forever. Got even better after an hour in air so this has a long life ahead. Wish I had more.
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A heavy, brooding wine with a little too much acidic nature on the top. Started out like a typical Napa Cab with big red fruit but mellowed into a nice semi-strong cabernet. Again, too acidic but nice medium finish The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like cranberry. It tastes like strawberry, blackberry, fig and violet. The body is medium. The wine has bright texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has high acidity.
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I have liked this wine from the beginning and it is truly in a very good drinking window that should last for years still. Nose was aromatic with red fruit, spice box, very perfumed. The fruit was still pronounced in the body with round tannins and balanced acid. Great long finish. Should have decanted as it is unfiltered and even with standing the bottle for the day, the bottom pour was cloudy. 1 left and should give it a few years just to pace my enjoyment.
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My kind of wine with loads of fruit. Purple in color. Cherry, minerals and blackberry on the nose. Shines on the palate. No tannin. Sweet cherry, plum, cassis, blackberry, minerals and a hint of licorice on a refined and balanced palate. What you look for in a CA cab. Very good now, but could get better, even though drinking beautifully
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Drinking exceptionally well right now. Purple and opaque with a chocolate nose and vanilla notes. Rich fruit palate, very round and velvety mouth feel. Dark fruit lingers on the finish. 5+13+17+8=93
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It was not the fruit bomb I expected. I expected more from such a well known brand. Tasted sided by side a Force Majure Cab that blew the doors off the Caymus.
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Cheap, no; over valued, most certainly - but wines like this are the foundation of Napa. Imo this wine is in its prime. Deep purple in color, raspberry, leather, apricot to the nose. Medium jammy taste that lingers. Well balanced wine that begs to be consumed with prime rib or tomahawk steak.
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Very much in the thick, sweet mold (almost like Port). Good for what it is, but not a real favourite. There is much better Cab from Napa (Mountain fruit) for the price.
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Deep dark red center, red rim with some signs of age. Smooth, stewed plums, black olives, roasted nuts, some leanness and cocoa. Quite sweet up front, rush of alcohol, very ripe (a little cooked almost), black cherries (like yoghurt), caramel, kirsch, fairly good length of ripe fruit. Very good for what it is. Not like the Caymus of 15 years ago, but still impressive in its own way.
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Caymus 2007 Napa and Back us 2005 with Christmas Dinner. Both are holding up well - good body, clarity and color. We drank the Caymus first which was dry with light fruit from start to finish. The backus was a little more round and had a deeper dark fruit content. Both very enjoyable.
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this is napa valley cab at its finest ... a pure valley floor character in its best form from '07. this was my first tasting of the vintage, and was rewarded accordingly. this is a wine to enjoy and has legs for more time in bottle
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Drank with 5 other 2006 and 2007 Napa wines. this was drinking very well with berry and spice notes tot he nose, full plush red and dark fruit with enough acid and softer tannins for structure and a long finish. the favorite of the night again Silver Oak, Hall, Clos du Val, and Ladera.
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Christmas Eve wine three out of the last four years and a hit again this evening. Matched with rack of lamb. Perhaps softening a bit with time but still very full. Sweet black cherry and oak.
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Ultra rich and decadent, more so than previous vintages, like cabernet dessert. An unbelievable nose of vanilla and oak. I really enjoyed 2 glasses of this and then it was a little much. It came across as fairly young, so lots of time left.
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Black center to deep purple edge. On PNP this had an unpleasant vegetable note. Needed nearly 1-1/2 hours to blow off. Once that passed there was a bit of perfume with a nice nose of Rutherford Cab fruit. This showed as a classy Rutherford Cab. I will decant the next bottle and let it air out for 2 hours or more. Keep another year or two at least. Not sure this is worth the price but a good wine in the end.
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I'm guessing that Caymus is a big fan of Mega Purple -- which would explain the color and the sweetness of this wine. It definitely doesn't taste like a cab.
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Dark beet red color. Bush berry scents, with secondary cigar box and licorice. A bit bizarre at first but air settles it down, still hot and sweet with crème de cassis and dark berry preserves. Tastes like a fortified wine -- high alcohol and enormous amounts of sugar. Not sure what to make of this syrupy confection: it's has loads of fruit but was it made as a dessert wine?
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Very dark in color. Nose has blueberry with a hint of cigar and beef. On the palate there is tons of concentration, yet it does not seem over-extracted or overly alcoholic. Nice acidity. Starting to develop some secondary flavors, and ends with a nice touch of bitter. Not fantastically long, but it's such a delicious wine, which is nicely balanced. You can see the development as this wine has aged, going from a luscious and creamy fruit compote in the early years to something more hearty and earthy that offers a different take on each sip. Hard not to enjoy.
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Prototype of the modern wine to get high scores. Not undrinkable, but it is one-dimensional, boring. This kind of wine does not improve with aging. My preliminary assessment is overrated.
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Basically consistent with notes of 8/25/2010 - but the intervening 4 years has brought out a greater earthy and tobacco quality to balance the lively plum and currant fruit flavors. Drink now - 2020?
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This is a very good wine. Nose of tobacco, chocolate, hint of floral. Taste of black berry. Tannins nice with good finish. Needed some time in the glass. Got better with time.
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Midnight core, deep dark purple, with the slimmest of meniscus, just barely allowing a hint of purple red at the edge
Nose is rich and clean, yet savory. Blackberry, blackcurrants, pipe tobacco, vanilla and soy
Palate is wonderful, just as savory, with meat, soy sauce, umami, all carried on cool blue fruit - a huge vanilla appears midway, and carries all the way through the long finish..
Super fine tannins melt in your mouth and are almost indiscernible.
I can't believe I didn't buy more of these - down to only two bottles, which I am determined to save for many more years
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Amazing how smooth the tannins are... No reason to hold this, it is ready to drink. Nice fruit, great nose, very napa fruit forward cab. Good with steak, even better with dark chocolate.
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This took about an hour to really open up and then I got an interesting licorice note on the nose. There was same great flavours as last time with plum and cassis. Really happy to share this with friends and good grilled beef. Really sad this is my last 2007. Oh well, they keep making good vintages don't they!
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This was delicious. Black fruits, candied fruits, nutmeg/cinnamon, smoky camp fire, and as it sat, chocolate and coffee. Silky, rich texture. Vanilla oak, but well integrated. Every sip was enjoyable.
I decanted for an hour, but this drank well right from the start. I thought this was drinking very well right now, but a few extra years in the cellar are not going to hurt.
On day two (which was actually day three), this wine was still delicious, but different. The texture was silkier, but the alcohol was also a bit more noticeable. Very strong licorice, but I can also sense some of the characteristics that others have noted, such as leather, chocolate, and smoked poblano or paprika.
I don’t think I have ever been so sad to see the bottom of a bottle.
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I think these must mellow with time because I don't get anything close to the over the top fruit bomb that these somehow are made out to me. Nose also not as candied as I've noticed before when very young. Still nice dark cab with a lot of chocolate notes. Fruit strong but balanced imho with a decent length finish. Overall it was very good but not quite up to the next level where it totally captures my attention.
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Multiple tastings with consistent notes. Give these fruit bomb Caymus wines a chance to age in the cellar and they are quite good. The cellar time allows the fruit jammy-ness to recede just enough and create a much more balanced wine, but still with very strong fruit flavors. A great wine from a great vintage. I'm going to really enjoy my last few bottles. Where's my 07 Special Selection? :-D
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Repeat of previous TN: One hour decant. Beautiful dark violet color. Wonderful bouquet of dark candied fruit, sweet berries and spice, with notes of wet leather, tobacco and mild forest floor. Subsequent vintages have hit me as a bit too sweet, but this 07 is singing beautifully!
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PnP. Drank remainder of bottle after using the coravin a couple of times over the past three weeks. Tasted the same as previous tastings out of this bottle. Excellent concentration of sweet, dark fruit with the acidity and tannins to balance the wine. This is a fruit-forward, in your face Napa cab. Not for everyone but definitely a well-made wine for what it is. Has several years of life left but I don't see this getting any better by letting it age.
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One hour decant. Beautiful dark violet color. Wonderful bouquet of dark candied fruit, sweet berries and spice, with notes of wet leather, tobacco and mild forest floor. Subsequent vintages have hit me as a bit too sweet, but this 07 is singing beautifully!
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Consumed over 2 days, note from day 2. Nose: Expressive scents of candied dark fruit - grape jolly rancher, tobacco, leather and a hint of peppermint. Palate: Full bodied, spicy dark fruit attack, with gritty tannin, earth and leather. Finish: Lengthy sense of sweet dark fruit and earthiness.
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We did a pop n pour of this with guests for Christmas Eve and it delivered. Lots of ripe fruit and cocoa on the nose and palate. Some, including me, may knock this style but for a table of thirsty guests this will impress.
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Another Caymus that didn't impress me. Juicy style, black fruit layers up front, feminine cab, tasty but lacking structure on the back end. Tasted side by side with an '06 Far Niente that blew it away.
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En carafe pour 4 heures! Gros vin avec beaucoup de matière! Nez sur le bois et le fruit mur...on semble avoir poussé un peu l'extraction! En bouche, c'est encore massif et boisé. 10 ans lui fera du bien pour s'arrondir.
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Third of 6 bottles. Every one of them have been among the best Caymus I have ever had. Classic Caymus style. Opened at a restaurant for most of an hour.....no decant. Was very good after just being open for a while. Others say this one benefits from a lot of decanting.....need to try that, but cannot understand how it could be better than we had last night.
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Still drinking like its very young. Strong fruit with strong spices and waves of oak. It all blends together for a hedonistic treat but it borders on over the top and being more like a shiraz vs a cab.
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Interesting nose that took some time to open up. I've had this wine in the past, and was impressed with the intense blueberry compote smells. It had less of that now at first, but opened up as the night went on. Five hours of decanting later, it was more open. This is a fairly big and juicy wine, but it's balanced well with acidity. Not over-ripe or flabby, but very fruit forward and easy on the oak. Has a lot of room to age still, and the secondary smells and flavors haven't really developed yet.
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Massive, oaky wine without decanting. Might have improved with air. CHocolate, black tea and charred fruit on the palate. Nose had cedar and alcohol. Tannins were there to back the fruit but not much acidity. Layered but in your face.
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Primary impression was of sweet red fruit, well made wine, tasty and easy to drink, especially on day 2 after the remaining tannins had settled down. Should continue to drink well over the next few years and may even improve.
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Hour decant first nite and another hour 2 nd nite allowed this great tasting cab to open.. No need to rush to drink as it is this full bodied cab is just hitting it's peak
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Tunge gardiner, sød, meget krydret duft, bred og kraftig smag, ok tanniner. Rimelig harmonisk, men mere kraftig end elegant og domineret af sødme og krydret duft og smag.
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Very typical Caymus. cotton candy, spice and sweets. Red fruit. Broad on the palate. Sensation of sweetness. Lovely and easy to drink, but full bodied. Long finish. Med acid. PDQ93+
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This might not be a huge Cab but I haven't tasted a better Cab, ever. This is like being a kid in the 70's and going to A&W Root Beer and having an ice cold A&W RB float. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!
- Garnet color with slow forming legs. It's balanced and has flavours of blackberry and strawberry with a full body. Silky texture with a long finish - Always a great bottle of Cab. Can't go wrong with this wine if you like big bold oak flavored wine.
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Drinking beautifully. Silky smooth. Not the big, brawny wine it was when first released. The oak has integrated very well, black currant and black cherry flavors and a medium length finish.
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The wine looks Purple colored. The legs are Medium. It smells like Gooseberry, and Black currant (cassis). It tastes like Black currant (cassis), and Plum. The body is Full. The wine has Smooth texture. The wine finishes Long. Had with grilled strip loins. Great stuff as usual.
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Maybe the best of the bottles of '07 that we have had. It really sang with classic Caymus cassis flavor, smooth mouthfeel, and very nice length. Lovely with grilled dinner. It followed a Tuscan blend and was a brilliant contrast.
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Delicious (as expected) and ready to drink now. Good on open, much better after 1 hour decant. Not as overtly rich and sweet as young Caymus. Elegant nose of currants, with mixed berries and chocolate on the palate. Finish lasts 20-30 seconds. Paired well with our filet mignon.
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Smooth and velvety,texture was almost more apparent than aroma or or taste at first. Warm smooth fruit, no tannins,gentle. After 3 hours in decanter, chocolate was most obvious over the fruit, overlaid with maybe sour cherries,others said lemon? Delicious. Glad we opened it now.
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Not the fruit bomb others are describing, didn't live up to my expectations. I've had better @ he $35 price point(Secolo). It did improve a point or 2 on day 3.
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Decanted and brought to room temp. Nice rich floral nose, currants, dark plum, cinnamon/clove. Yes there are candied notes, but the sweetness is in check. Paired with a tomahawk ribeye!
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Color not readily apparent in the lighting. Hershey's milk chocolate and cocoa with underlying purple fruit on the nose. This wine is a highly extracted fruit bomb with strong tannins. My sense is that it tries to be all things to all people and as such is overly ambitious. Nice vanilla and black fruits, but not to my taste. With Jody and Stella at the Opera Ball.
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Dark red-violet. Aroma dominated by wood, notes of coconut, dark roast coffee, vanilla, with some very ripe mixed dark fruits. It's an uncomplicated nose in an easy to understand early drinking style. On entry, low energy and supple. The wine develops quickly, gives heaps of fruit and wood spices. Finishes flatter than expected, with a little bitter char. Seems to be stuck in a dull drinking period. Bottle #2 of four.
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Drinking very nicely right now, well balanced, a big Napa cab with heady nose and bold dark fruit flavors, a bit on the sweet side but none the less very enjoyable.
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Beautiful Caymus nose. Inky, dark red. Wine has lovely complexities in the mid palate with a solid finish. Highly extracted that has created an imbalance of high alcohol resulting in a cloying effect on the palate. Nice wine that hopefully mellows with more time in the cellar. Has the potential to have a much higher score.
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This was inky black in colour. More going on than with the 2008 we had recently. Still a little sweet, but a big wine too. We all enjoyed this one with our rib-eyes.
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Wow...this wine continues to improve with age. Concentrated dark blackberry fruit with silky smooth tannins and a finish that just won't stop. Strong hints of cassis and milk chocolate that seamlessly integrate with the fruit. Loving this wine and wish I had more.
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Inky violet color with black currant, tobacco, blackberry, mint and a bit of violet aromas. On the palate, it's medium-full bodied, focused and deftly balanced with blackcurrant, blackberry, and a hint of bittersweet chocolate flavors wrapped in sweet fine grained tannins. Long finish. 15% abv
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Three bottles consumed over a couple months, scores from 91 to 93. Typical Caymus, meaning that it is very good :-). I like to drink these after dinner in order to enjoy the depth of flavor, but I'm sure that they are great with steak as well.
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Disappointing vs what I was looking for tonight. I wanted that fruit forward Caymus style, but the alcohol is throwing this out of balance. 15%, half a turn higher than the '09 we drank recently. Prefer the '09 for sure.
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Excellent fruit forward California Cab (if you like the style), but agreed with others that it is possible to get similar for half the price. Nose is a little bit hot this time around...
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Decanted on NYE for an hour, re-bottled and took to dinner. Obviously had high expectations but was left disappointed. Wine is dark and viscous with good fruit, but the finish is cloyingly sweet and lacking any acidic balance. Didn't stop it from being a fan favorite at dinner.
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I'm usually a huge Caymus fan but this bottle really disappointed. Based on others' comments here I tried to pop and pour this and it was awful initially--hot and disjointed. So I decanted for a couple of hours and cooled down to around 60 deg. It was definitely better as time went on. There was good concentration of fruit, but it was rather primary and I didn't get the secondary notes that others have mentioned including the usual chocolate notes. I could get cabs as good as this bottle for $25 no problem. I will hold my other bottle of the '07 and hope it gets better (or that this was a subpar bottle). If they are all like this, then I think this is very overrated.
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A real crowd pleaser for sure... opened on Christmas eve eve with a bunch of folks. They all loved it. For me, not quite so much. A well made wine for sure, but a little sweet for my taste.
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6th tasting with consistent notes. Typical Caymus fruit bomb, but I have to say that with some age, the fruit starts to relax a bit and reveal more balance and complexity. Still a fruit dominated wine. Drinking wonderfully, good aromatics, touch of tar perhaps. No sign of burning out. One of my favorites in an excellent vintage.
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Am always surprised why Caymus doesn't get rated higher. Deep, penetrating backbone of fruit; dry, toasted, dark and rich, silky texture. Pretty classy and decadent.Some obvious vanilla tones hold it back a bit It's so much better than the last one I had, am guessing it just needed more time.
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Second bottle of this wine that I have opened in a week. More oak and vanilla and less fruit this time around. I had not really thought of bottle variation so much in the case of Caymus but it is there.
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My wife and I both enjoy this wine although it is probably more her style than mine. The score is an average from both of us. As with our last bottle, I find it "like sharing the evening with a beautiful woman of limited conversational ability". That refererence is to the wine.
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I have been looking forward to this bottle reaching the top of my list. No disappointment. The wine looks Violet colored. The legs are Slow. It smells like and Black currant (cassis). It tastes like and Black currant (cassis). The body is Medium/Full. The wine has Smooth texture. The wine finishes Long.
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This bottle has really come into is sweetspot (IMHO). It's such a stunner, in both appearenc, nose, and frontal attack with Chocolate covered cherry, and baking spice notes. I understand that this is a cuvee, and not a full expression of a single vineyard cult Cabernet, but you can't beat this bottling for sheer fun and elagance. It's both a great sipper, and a wonderful pairing with some many foods. You just can't say that about so many Calif Cab's that have more oak. Well done Wagner family, and this is why I don't hesitate to keep these bottles in my cellar.
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A real crowd pleaser, drinking beautifully, may have some room to improve with time in the cellar but I believe this is meant to be dranked about now. Lively fruit a hint of oak and tobacco, predominantly fruit, perhaps a tad sweet. Silky smooth and full lush body. Noticeable absence of minerality or earthiness, and seems to lack the structure for the long haul - the more the reason to drink now.
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This is a heck of a good bootle of wine. Great fruit on nose and attack, hint of caramel on the mid-palate. Good balance with tannin. Real smooth with plenty of red fruit, but also vanilla and caramel. I dont think it will peak more than one or 2 more years from now (if it isnt already at its best) so drink up now.
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Stunning wine. Smooth, tannins well integrated. Fruit and pepper on the palate deep ruby color. John said it was the best part of the meal, and we had a great meal.
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- Garnet color with medium forming legs. It's balanced and has flavours of blackberry, black currant and strawberry with a medium body. Round texture - See Aug 12th notes.
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Well its certainly right up my alley if you like full bodied fruit forward cabs, Very intense flavors, darker fruit on the front with heavy sweetness in the midpalate, strong vanillin and milk chocolate but balanced and not overwhelming in my opinion, I think has the structure to further improve for one or two more year but sense its one to be drank sooner than later. Mid 90s. -S
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C'mon, we all know what this tastes like, vintage after vintage. I make no apologies for liking this style occaisionally. Drank with a porterhouse steak.
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This is definitely not your classic Cabernet Sauvignon so I can understand why some people do not like it, but I find it outstanding for what it is, i.e. a very fruity cab with a generous sweet vanilla nose and a very rich, highly concentrated palate. Ready to drink now.
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- Garnet color with slow forming legs. It's balanced and has flavours of raspberry, strawberry and black currant with a medium/full body. Round texture with a medium finish - Always a great bottle of wine. Hard to top.
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Had some more people over to try and the same results. Those that are new to wine and generally drink sweet wines really like this. "tastes a little like syrup".....those who like really good dry Cabs from Cali, think its crap. Best to drink by itself because it will ruin most foods.
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Tasted head to head with Caymus 06. Very soft tannins, nice fruit and touches of vanilla. Much softer than the 06. One of my favorites, drinking beautifully right now.
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How is this a 92+ bottle? I've had this bottle 3-4 times and it is so over extracted and sweetened it's ridiculous. It literally tastes like the winemaker poured sweetener in it. I just don't get all the hype. There are hundreds of bottles that are way better than this for far less than the $65 this retails for.
After some decant time, it started to open up. Not one of the more opulent Caymus vintages, but it is rather tasty. I would give it a few more years to show itself better.
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Fruit bomb. Tannins starting to integrate nicely. Drinking very well right now, but should last another couple of years. Classic Caymus in an outstanding vintage.
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Not a thinkers wine, just delicious caramel vanilla and pie crust goodness, its almost too sweet, with a buttery mouthfeel,and low acidity. Friends of mine who are new wine drinkers almost crapped their pants they thought this was so good, and while I too can appreciate the quality fruit here, its a little boring and over done. Delicious treat for a blue moon, but not something I could drink everyday.
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i dont get the 93+ ratings for this. tried one and thought maybe it was a bad bottle. opened another. too sweet for me. definitely oaky. vanilla is over powering. have one more left i will try in a few years.
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We personally struggle with Caymus Cabs, but we still come back year after year and at $79 we must be clearly insane, tasty for sure, but you can get the similar experience for around $20 now so why do we continue to bother? - Dark, full bodied with a nose of blackfruit, plum, cherry, cedar, mocha and extreme vanilla, not integrated as yet, with heat and oak being pervasive, quite port-like, fruit forward, smooth on the palate with decent length, tasted good for sure (88 Points).
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Still my favorite wine. In a 12 person six wine blind tasting, this wine was the clear favorite. Exceptional color, nose, and finish with a wonderful taste of berrries and vanilla. Ended up drinking two aditional bottles with some steak and scallops.
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Decanted and tasted, first of 5 bottles, this one was unimpressive, huge amounts of vanilla, alcohol, tannins and a bitterness that made this almost unpalatable. We did finish the bottle, but was glad it was gone. I don't believe this was flawed, maybe an off bottle or just caught this at a bad time, will reserve judgement for the next bottle!!
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4th bottle. This is a delicious wine, but may not be for everyone. It definitely is on the sweeter side, and there is a vanilla and oak nose and raisony component that apparently has turned off a few here. I love it, because it's unlike any of the 15 other cabs in my cellar and just plain tastes good to my palate. Just bought another case. Yum yum.
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This is a great couples wine. Rich, lush texture and a highly extracted slightly sweet taste of plum, currant, vanilla with perhaps a hint of baking spice. Dark purply color and smooth tannins. I like it better than the way over extracted Special Selection.
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I was pretty excited about this because I have not had a bottle of Caymus since the 2006 that we all drank over a year ago. The 2007 was a really nice wine but not up to the level of the 2006. Had some aromas of vanilla, black currant and raspberry. This had a heavy dose of oak, where the 2006 was far more balanced, but this still had a lot going on. Waves of flavors hit your palate with vanilla, tar, red and dark fruits.
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Eagerly popped this for Mrs. Coupe's birthday. Maybe I had too high of expectations, but I was really disappointed in the bottle. I generally like the big full throttle fruit forward hedonistic reds. However the vanilla extract taste in this wine was so dominating, that I could not get past it. We much more enjoyed the 2003 Raymond St. Helena Cab that we had next.Not worth the money
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This is the 2nd bottle of our case, and I must admit that I may be giving these away if they don't get better. Had it with another California Cab that was clearly the most preferred of the two since it was polished off quickly and no one wanted to finish this one. This is either my second bad bottle, or a wine that has been doctored up to add sweetness since many people tend to lean more towards that.
This is a cross between a highly extracted syrah and a port. It was utterly awful with food, as the syrupy nature of the wine left everyone begging for water to clean their palate. Wasn't near as bad by itself, and one person in our group, who doesn't really care for wine except for really sweet wine, actually liked it. Perhaps all of my bottles aren't good - but I was not a fan of this. We were even discussing the theory of it being doctored up to add color and sweetness. Perhaps the most over-rated wine I've had - perhaps my next one will be wonderful.
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- Brick color with slow forming legs and aromas of chocolate, black currant and raspberry. It's in total harmony with a full body. Silky texture with a long finish - Beautiful Cab...2nd bottle and may be the best Cab I have had. The 2007 vintage does not disappoint...need to find more of this one!
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Decanted for 3+ hours for a tasting at a friend's house, 3rd bottle of 6 for the night. Notes of deep tar, toasty cedar. Exceptional due to the vintage as most regular Caymus (if there is such a thing) tends toward the almost overdone Cali Cab profile. Nice, long finish... just made you want to eat the bottle. A fantastic wine.
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WOW! Plush, intense, balanced, fantastic Cabernet. Decanted two hours and kept getting better over the next two as it revealed layer after layer of character.
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Wow was this a big delicious wine. Didn't take any formal notes, but I remember there being some big complex fruit hemmed in by balanced oak. My first Caymus. Surely won't be my last.
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Dark garnet color. Sweet, ripe fruit nose. Big, rich and luscious fruit. Dark cherry, cocoa and spice. Very little tannin, actually it could use more. This is a big, pleasant drinking wine for evening's when you do not want to think about the wine. Like sharing the evening with a beautiful woman of limited conversational ability.
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Popped and poured at the end of the night after a lot of great wine. Either this was tight, it's just not my style, or it wasn't fair to open and judge at that point of the night.
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Excellent cab. Dark fruit and chocolate. Very silky and well balanced. Sit back and enjoy. Good idea to decant for a couple of hours but great out of the bottle.
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Drank with wagyu tenderloin, pasta with wild mushroom sauce, grilled baby bell peppers and eggplants. Very smooth tannins, but firm enough to handle the steak; ripe fruit, nice acidity. A delicious, beautiful cab without the usual overoaked aftertaste that plagues California cabs.
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popped and poured and it was great, so smooth, purple color, nose of plum and wild berries, with great full-body in the mouth, great balance some oakiness. great tannins and a coffee flavor at the end...LOVE THIS
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Popped and poured 1, and decanted 1. Was great right out of the bottle. Review hasn't really changed. This is becoming one of my favorites. My question how long it will age. Drinking beautifully now though.
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I love all Caymus. This one has good nose and taste, but it is not one of the best regular Caymus's I have tasted. Good with all types of food or just to sit down and sip on the bottle by itself.
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- Garnet color with slow forming legs. It's balanced and has flavours of oak and dusty with a medium/full body. Silky texture with a medium finish - Please read my 08/15/11 notes
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Delicious! This has gotten better! Dark purple beauty, with good viscosity in the glass. Wonderful plum and blackberry fruit, effusive with oak upon pouring. The Vanilla Oak does subside with air, then the melted chocolate comes along to dance with the berry fruit for a 45+ second finish. Lovely! This has some power to last a while, but very approachable now.
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APPEARANCE: Beautiful dark red color AROMA: Bright red fruit, chocolate, dust and a hint of oak TASTE: Silky smooth with chocolate and cherries. Very delicious.
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No score. This simply isn't for me. Too much alcohol and port-like qualities render drinking anything more than a glass difficult. Also, it fell apart after several hours.
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Dark purple, cherry red at the rim. Intense nose of dark cherries and plumb. Delicious mixed dark berries. Smooth mouth feel, not very tannic. A really, really nice accessible cab.
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This is a perfect cab, how does it get any better?? Drinking so well right now, I have one left and I will keep for a few years to see where it goes. We brought this bottle to a restaurant for a cork fee and was a PNP; nose was floral and jammy, nice purple color. Nice smooth taste, with a mid pallet spice and with excellent finish. Tasted vanilla, pepper, berries, small amount of oak. Just an excellent balance and a perfect bottle of wine in my opinion.
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This wine explodes with dark fruit, almost like a mixed berry festival. Despite it's relative youth, the ripe fruit overwhelms the tannins creating an extremely smooth and rich mouthfeel. While this wine will not be for everyone, I loved it. If you like border line fruit bombs, this is for you.
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Rich, sappy and ripe. Nose has intense wafts of casis, charcoal, licorice. Smooth and lush in the mouth, with jammy blackberry. Medium length and showing a bit of it's alcohol at this point.
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Excellent bottle of Caymus that is drinking quite well at this time. Probably could use a few more years but don't think one would be disappointed drinking this now. Very well balanced and not overly agressive with the tannins. Rich and smooth with a nice oak presence.
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Movie night at the Rodgers house. We had a nice BBQ and drank two wines. The 2007 Caymus and 2009 Vigilance Cab. The Caymus was drinking at it's peak, soft - great fruit flavors and a hint of oak/vanilla. Smooth from start to finish. The Vigilance as also drinking well and likely not going to get that much better. The flavors were not as intense and the finish was not as long but still a very nice drink.
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Dark purple color, nose of plum and wild berries, velvety smooth and silky with great full-body in the mouth, great balance some oakiness. great tannins and a coffee flavor at the end
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Caymus trio tasting (Thousand Oaks, Ca): Very dark purple color. The nose is room-filling of very ripe cherry, tobacco, bell pepper and more than a dollop of smoky oak. Medium tannin, medium-low acidity. This bottle may be heading underground for a while; it's tight like a fist, and less forward in the mouth than its companion bottles ('08, '09). The finish is excellent, mouth-coating and of unusual length for a mid-priced Napa cabernet. We think this bottling is the finest vintage in recent memory for Caymus' regular cab; it's the stallion and it's likely to run for a long time.
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Big fruit at first but then settled down with some tart cherries and strawberries at the end of the bottle a few hours later; the vanilla notes are not overwhelming at the opening or at the end; a great bottle of wine
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Not over done (if you like this style) even for a Caymus in 2007. Typical Caymus fruit, vanilla, rich oak treatment, soft (already) tannins, decent finish.
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This wine is all about the fruit. A classic California Cab with raspberries, blueberries and strawberry on the nose. The palate was sweet berries and vanilla with a medium length finish. If California cabs are your thing, this is going to be pretty hard to beat for the price. Nice.
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This wine is drinking well right now, will get better in a couple of years, but the tannins are smooth now. Nice fruit, berries and some plum. Long finish.
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OK, so this wine was very good headed toward outstanding, but maybe I'm missing something, because, for me it was sort of underwhelming...at least for the price. Plum, dark berries and something caramelized. Honestly, the best part for me were the silky tannins, perfect. Maybe it's still a bit young, but I just didn't get it.
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This wine is singing now, but I think it still has some time left in it. Decanted for about an hour. Strawberries and a little pepper on the nose. Ripe berries on the palate with a nice medium-long finish.
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A magnificient wine, just in its right spot. So much better than the 05 tasted half a year ago; dark red, bordering black; very deep intense fruity nose with hint of vanilla - reminds me a little of Aalto although less aggressive, this one is more subtle and rounded; creamy texture, melted soft chocolate, ripe black cherries; long long pleasant smooth aftertaste which goes on for more than two minutes; a true quality wine
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Was opened 8 hours before serving, double decanted and just breathed in bottle.
Painfully young and over the top right now. Has way too much baby fat. I had people taste this blind and 6 out of 8 called "aussie shiraz". Nose of cassis liqueur, coffee and moka. On the palate this is rich, sweet and sexy but lacks the complexity a wine of this caliber should have. Again, way too young.
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Outstanding! Decanted for about 2 hours. As we drank the bottle the wine continued to open up more, three hours of decanting probably would have been perfect. Dark red in color, full bodied with notes of cherries and blackberries. Lots of fruit on the palate with subtle hints of oak and vanilla. Long smooth finish.
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Massive fruit, took some time and air to move from a short finish to a medium length finish. Never developed any real nuance midpalate though. Very good, but wanted more. At the Painted Pony in St. George UT with Bill and Kathi
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Very balance and integrated tannins. Beautiful deep purple color and showy dark fruit flavors. Very nice drink. 2007 continues to show that it is a great year.
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really starting to drink well. while a bit of a vanilla fudge sundae in its youth, this is developing nicely. on the nose, the vanilla is fading somewhat but still present with deep blackberry cobbler notes and nice herbaceousness. the palate is viscous with good tannic grip and decent acidity which support the fruit and cocoa. not the 'cab syrup' some described it as a year ago. really enjoyable.
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Deep color. Immediate plum/prune flavors when it first hits your palette. This is then followed by dark fruits with a long finish. 15% alcohol only give a little heat on the back end. In another few years this should mature nicely.
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I've been tracking the progress of this wine over the past two years. It's starting to develop some secondary cocoa and coffee flavors on top of the jammy blackberry. The finish is very hedonistic. This wine is really starting to enter it's groove. I wouldn't hesitate to drink now but it will hang on for a few years.
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Let it breath an hour. The nose on this bottle was muted but the pallate was great with layers of fruit and soft tannins and rich finish Enjoyed sipping through an evening of wine and cheese.
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Always a great bottle of Cab. Although this is a young wine, I think it is ready to drink. Chocolate, black chbeery and oak are to be noted. This really is a well balanced wine. Soft tannins. A hint of coffee.
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3 hour decant. Nose of cinnamon, black cherry, cassis, and sweet oak. On the palate this is very plush and velvety with plentiful dark and red fruits with creamy oak and vanilla. Moderate finish with some noticable heat. Still very good but not as good as the bottle I had a year ago.
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Dark purple color, nose of plum and wild berries, velvety smooth and silky with great full-body in the mouth, great balance some oakiness. great tannins and a coffee flavor at the end
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Exellent bottle of wine. May be young but very enjoyable. Excellen balance of fruit and not overpowering. Smooth but with great structure. I tried both, this one and the Caymus Special Selection. No comparison, this wine is about half the price and a much better bottle of wine. I have one left but looking for more. Caymus make a great Cab.
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A wonderful cabernet as only Caymus does it. A delicious nose begging for you to taste. And once you indulge the request, the flavor doesn't fail. A brooding yet lithe sense of dark berries, seemingly heavier but not overpowering. Perfectly balanced and completely enjoyable.
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One of my most favorite wines, big cab with a great nose full of berries, very smooth, well balanced tannins. took this bottle to an Italian resturant and opened a hour before drinking, started with a cianti, moved to the Caymus later in the dinner. Great finish
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This is a big cab. Surprising amount of oak and alcohol, but it works well. Beautiful and sweet across the palate. No tartness at all. Silky texture with fine, velvety tannins. I really like this, but I'm not sure I could justify $60.
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On the MLK Tournament trip we drank the Rambauer 07 Zin, Caymus Napa 07 Cab, Eponymous 05 Cab and 1999 Raymond Generations. All drank well, the Zin was a bit sweet, the Caymus is going to get better and the Eponymus and Raymond were good, the Raymond should be drank NOW not a year from now.
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Ripe with fruits. Great cab. drinking really well already. Full of black berries. Have one more bottle that I am gonna keep a few years just to see how this wine develops over the next couple of years
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Tasted friend's 1 day leftover bottle...so this sucker had time to breathe. Much better than the 07 Caymus I tasted 6 months ago. 07 tastes richer, sweeter than 06 and 08. 08 tends to have a little more spice prob due to it's youth. 06 I find to have a finer nose but less rich. The vanilla oak front is not as overpowering as before and is therefore imho more balanced. Very dark and deep, with chocolately fruit. Highly enjoyable.
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I did not decanter for long enough to bring out the best in this wine. I let sit open for 1 hour while we cooked the steaks, lobster, asparagus and pear salad. I did however pour two glasses that let off huge sweet flowery smells. It was very mature for a 2007 and the other bottle I own is staying in the cellar for a few more years. It was exceptionally fragrant with berry and flowers and a bit of oak. Spring smells jumped from the glass. I would say that for the price, it is an exceptional value.
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Decanted for two hours. Deep, dark violet color. Lush and inviting nose with blackberries, vanilla, dried herbs, violets, chocolate and licorice on the nose. Full bodied with soft, silky tannins and low acidity. A bit too soft for me and I'd like a bit more tannic presense in a young cab. Rich on the palate and loaded with flavor. Oak not a problem, adds complexity but does not stand out. Long finish with chocolate and spice adding to the dominant fruit. Very flavorful but in the end it left me wanting a bit more zip and grip. This won't be one to lay down for a decade, enjoy it in it's first 5 or 6 years.
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I have been a huge Caymus fan for at least 10 years. This is truly 1 of the best bottles of Caymus that I have had. The fruit is beautiful. Well balanced. Loads of fruit. You can really taste the oak in this wine, but just the right amount. This is as good as the Special select. Pretty incredible for such a young Cab.
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Exceptionally fragrant with ripe red fruit, mint and menthol. Rich and exhuberent flavors of creme de cassis, black cherry, creosote and blackberry. Finish is also full, flashing big berry, oak and sour black fruit. Very good.
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Dark fruit abounds. Surprisingly supple and mature for a very big 2007 cabernet! Drinking perfectly now, so the question is what this will be like in 10 years?
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Stunningly good for a young Napa cab...huge, full fruit that comes out almost immediately and lasts for hours. Balance, great finish, great nose...what's not to love about this wine? I can only imagine what it will taste like in a few years.
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Classic fruit forward Napa cab. Great cab fruit up front but not over thr top. Smooth tannins. This one drinks great now - may or may not benefit from further age but I bet it will stay great for quite a while. Had with steak and prime rib - yum.
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Definitely the best Caymus in the past several vintages. Really rich and extracted, more so than normal for this wine. Roasted meat, licorice, and espresso beans. Oak, mint and cherry. Delicious.
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I probably would have rated this one a lot lower if not for all the other scores here. We had this in a group with 3 other really good Napa cabs and it was clearly the least admired, even though it was the highest priced wine. Did not go well with food, seemed to have some syrup in it. Perhaps we had a bad bottle and will revisit it again in 6 months.
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I found this difficult to score possibly because we drank it immediately after 2000 LaTour Figeac or because my reference points were 1994-96 Caymus with a few years in bottle and haven't had since. In any case tannins and fruit are evident but the oak was out of balance for me and packed a real aftertaste which overpowered the finesse and quality of the fruit and the vintage. Right now they're fighting for control but hopefully will resolve differences because the wine seems to have the potential to be delicious. This bottle needed 2-3 years minimum but maybe there is some variation in certain barrels based on CT reviews.
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We had some gorgeous dry-aged strips to grill and some fresh trumpet mushrooms to saute. It seemed only fitting that I corked this puppy. A bit tannic due to it's young age, but after some decanting and some rest it opened up beautifully. TONS of deep, dark fruits- black cherry, cocoa, maybe a little plum.It had a long, lingering finish that permiated my sinuses. Love it now and will get better with some time.
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Powerful alcohol whiff with dark cherry and licorice on the nose. This is a full-throttle Cabernet with huge gobs of dark cherry, black currant, dark chocolate, liqueur, coffee, and leather on the palate with firm tannins. This is more flashy compared to the '04, which had more density and subdued minerals that gave a lot more promise for cellaring. Drink from 2011 to 2017.
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notes...Very interesting vino. To me it has the X-factor the Wow liquid silk/velvet appeal. As per wine maker notes, it was intentionally made without the tartness that some Napa cabs express. The real deal here, will be if it has the complexity or structure to evolve over the next many years. If somehow it does, it will truly be a 97pt or higher type of wine. In 20 years of drinking high end Napa Cabs I've only had a handful that gives so much right here and now....That being said, you have to enjoy the creamy/sweet smoothness that it displays...Otherwise you might be disappointed.
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started out pretty strong. took to Ruths Chris to have with dinner and the wine has lovely fruit. Nice perfume, chocolate, spice, and rich black fruit. unfortunately towards the end of the meal the oak started to dominate the wine. out of balance, too much oak for my taste. also wish the wine had more complexity and less alcohol. still a nice cab from a great vintage.
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Nose was moderately giving of beautiful ripe fruits and was very promising for this young wine. Showed deep dark red color and was viscous in the glass and mouth. 15% alcohol not prominent in nose or mouth. However, it seems overoaked to me. I tasted so much oak that I felt compelled to walk to my pantry and sniff a bottle of mexican vanilla. I should not have done that because the vanilla flavors were screaming after that, ruining my experience. I will never do that again. Besides the oak, this was fairly sweet with ripe dark fruits and moderate casis- sort of brutish for Caymus. Fairly tight as well as I did not decant, but did use a Vinturi on the pour. Not quite integrated yet and the oak certainly seemed out of balance at this point. I hope it integrates. I tried my first bottle about 1 year ago and was hoping this had evolved - NOPE. My magic number for Caymus is 7 years old, so I am going to stick with that and wait until 2014 for my last bottle. Wish I had more of the 2002 and 2003, which were super-de-lish!
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This cab is amazing. Nice color, deep rich purple. Decanted for 2 hours, vanilla, oak, black fruit. The finish to me was the best part, long and somewhat spicy. A great deal for this top quality napa cab. It will be interesting to see how the 08 compares… I plan on keeping my other bottles a bit long before tasting again; another year or two this wine may be somewhere around 95-97
nose: fake movie theater butter, overly malic. dill, pepper, cherry jam, coconut. mouth: big fruity booze bomb, syrupy, toasted coconut, fake caramel. upfront is flabby although there is a bit of acid on the finish. napa all the way.
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No decant; 30 minutes in oversized bdx glass. Dark fruit and chocolate; drinking wonderfully now, but will undoubtedly be a 95-pointer if you have the patience to leave this alone for a few years, allowing oak/vanilla to subside just a bit.
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Taste: My notes read "one of the most juicy" with regard to the rest of the wines tasted during this event. Very gripping tannins that are still present. Complexities in the wine abound with the dark juicy fruit, dark chocolate and spices.
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Culina : Our Wines, Our Style (J.W.Mariott Hotel): Alcohol : 15% Dusty, green bell pepper, with blackcurrant and licorice and earth. The nose is quite good but not the palate which is ultra ripe blackcurrant fruits (over, I think) dominants with some green stalk-y flavor that is creamy and silky in texture that is fleshy, sweet with bitter cocoa long finish that is spicy. Very California, very sweet. Buy - No.
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No real notes taken but really a great wine that almost surprised me.. Very intense black currant fruit with a lot of burned earth and just a hint of oak and vanilla. Also some sweet cassis flavours coming through the good aftertaste. It does have a little bit of minerality but overal a modern and impressive wine. Really great vintage of this wine.
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Dencanted for 3 hours. Heavy-duty creme de cassis, vanilla and green oak. Bottle is too young but toward the end of the night and the next day, the oakiness blew off and really came in to its own, with chocolate overtones on the long, illustrious finish. With a handful of years in additional cellaring, this bottle will be in the 97+ range! Highly recommended!
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Deep purple, primal, ripe and deep. Great density of fruit (perhaps a bit overdone??), but combined with very nice structure, almost vervy. Excellent and decent price.
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This wine is drinking beautifully for such a young Cali Cab. Just silky and fruity with hints of vanilla. We tasted a Caymus vertical of 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007 last night. I felt the 2007 was the best, followed by 2004, 2005 and then 2006. They were all great wines and everything you expect from Caymus, which has become one of the most consistent Napa Cab producers around. I was surprised at the subtle differences of each year. What a treat!
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Rich, young. So much vanilla on the nose and palate - thought I was eating a vanilla wafer. Good structure. Great example of a fruit-forward CA cab. I think the vanilla was overpowering.
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Blind Tasted until someone revealed the true wine. Dark-Dark Purple ink. Very strong black fruit, vanilla on the nose. I thought this was a high-end Syrah or Shiraz at first, until someone let the cat out of the bag. WoW! This has deep rich black and blue fruit. Slowly opened to Maple syrup and blueberry pancakes. This big boy is rich and young! The Vanilla oak resonates and the tannins were super-powered! This is a a very powerful wine at this stage! This is very different from the 2006 I drank 3 weeks ago. I really do love this winery!
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Wow, This wine will knock your socks off. Drinking like Special Select. Powerful Chocolate and vanilla nose, and I mean powerful. Wonderful taste and great finish. Super club buy at $58.
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Popped and poured. beautiful dark color. Seductive nose with classic cassis, slight cedar box, and cake batter. Fruity palate with nice structure. Smooth tannins. I really enjoyed this wine. Will definitely buy more.
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Wine flight at Lutsen Resort (Lutsen Resort): Dark purple color really stands out. Sweet dark fruits, blackberry, blueberry, light spice, followed by great cincentration on hte palate and a tantalizing velvety mouth feel, round tannins and a long finish with mocha and vanilla notes. Well made and well balanced wine.
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Darker garnet aspect. Deep aromas of vanilla (obvious new American oak) with forest berries in the background. Creamy, soft, round entry and very concentrated. Well made technological wine but it lacks finesse and the oak is too pronounced for me.
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Slightly sweet with a lot of fruit but not over powering. A nice wine to drink with food or not (though I did with a number of good cheeses). Very tasty!
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Nose: Fruit and cream. The oak is def coming through a bit. Taste: This tastes like sweet blueberry pie. Maybe some cinnamon on the back. Moderately long finish. Big and fruity, tannins to last for a while, but not the most complex wine... but it does taste very good, just over the top.
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San Antonio Wine Geeks - Potluck (Auden's Kitchen): Reduction and heat on the nose with vanilla, cassis, and cedar box. Slightly sweet palate, with good complexity, and finishes with a vanilla milk shake character and chewy sweet tannins. I can see the appeal, and it is well made for the style, but too much oak influence for me.
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This seemed better than the bottle we drank a few months ago. Big, ripe, and a little on the sweet side, but not as monolithic as last time with dark fruit, cherry, and currant flavors.
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Red Mountain Tour (Red Mountain, Washington): Raspberries, plums, and some woody oak appear on the nose. Full vanilla flavors and rich blackberries set in quickly. A fun tart note rises on the mid palate. Full on vanilla oak and blackberry get all big and crazy on the finish. Some heat shows as well.
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Very nice. Aromas of berry, currant, spice and dark fruits. The flavors repeat the aromas and the finish is well structured yet integrated to provide enjoyable drinking now.
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Dark ruby. Jammy blackberry and cassis fruit, mocha, and vanilla. Silky, lush mouthfeel. Soft tannins. Too sweet and jammy for my tastes. Like drinking spiked blackberry pie filling.
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The opposite of Silver Oak. This has many of the characteristics of a great cab except the lack of depth and the wine being void of any oak. It is strange to have a very good cabernet and to not be able to detect even a hint of oak. The reports of vanilla, milk chocolate, and sweet berries hold true. It does stay true to Caymus style with the velvety texture and the tannins kicking in late. I wouldn't pair this with anything heavy, this might be the perfect bottle to start a wonderful night.
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Thick and bursting with ripe fruit, this wine has California written all over it. Notes of cassis, blackberry, dark chocolate, vanilla bean, and cinnamon are detectable, as well as a hint of greenness. It is effusive on the palate as it is on the nose and has a sweet and plush mouthfeel, with soft tannins giving way to a coffee-like finish. I would normally be concerned by the level of oak that this wine has, but it has enough fruit to balance the oak, no doubt helped by the 2007 vintage. Surprisingly approachable for such a young cabernet, and the sort of wine that both casual drinkers and enthusiasts would enjoy, if somewhat middle-of-the-road.
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Very tight! Extreamly long legs. Decant for at least 3 hours, but may be better off waiting another few years. Has great potential. Score based on potential.
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Dark color as expected. Nose of wild flowers and sweet black cherries and black berries, hints of currant. The palate starts with some sassafras, cola, and red cherries, but slowly evolves to some darker fruits like black currant, plum, and black raspberry. This is a very easy drinking wine with a medium to light mouth feel. It’s plushy and a sweet fruit forward with nary a backbone in sight, which only reinforces my theory of 2007 being an early drinking vintage. Sure, this is a showy wine with some elegance lots of purity, but the tannic structure is weak. It has a long very long and flamboyant finish. 91
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Great wine, but such a baby. Wait wait wait, this will be another 1997 all over again. Very enjoyable, butvwasca bit tight on the finish due to pop and pour through a venturi. Best to open 2-3 hours beforehand at least.
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Drank from a magnum, which might explain why this didn't display its typical Cali Fruit Bomb qualities. I've always considered this wine one of the earliest drinkers of the Napa stalwarts (supported by the fact that it's released almost an entire vintage earlier than its peers). This one took 40-60mins to open and had a very respectable, structured finish. The acidic mid-palate was muted but again, one doesn't have expectations of a long-lived wine, when buying this. The aromatics similarly, were atypical but very alluring; with more emphasis on the mineral tones coupled with a pretty cool licorice-dominant richness. At the very least, this was probably the most "interesting" of the several vintages I've tried to date. I'm tempted to give it another point or two for that alone, however, it was not worthy of the descriptor - Outstanding.
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Big, grapey (does not even taste like Cabernet Sauvignon), smooth, well balanced. Simple flavors, nice lingering finish. Nothing hot or offensive. Seems like they traded safety/security of not offending for having a wine with individual, nuanced and clear characteristics.
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Well made Cali Cab, nothing out of whack. Nose was attractive. The flavor was my issue - mainly that it was one flavor - sweet plums. Soft, mildly oaky finish, but with an odd note that I couldn't place. Drinkable now. For $60 there are many other options out there.
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Beautiful dark violet color. Wonderful bouquet upon decant...sweet berries and spice. One hour in the decanter before first taste, and I can see that I'll need to find more. Velvety tannins; much smoother than expected from a young cab. Dark fruit on the palate while bouquet eased towards (super-mild) forest floor/wet leather. Good stuff, and only a tiny bit of heat despite high alcohol level on label. A small tannin reserve presented itself on the second glass (also the faintest bit of black pepper), so I hope this will hold on for a while.
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Dinner at Jace's (Jace's House): Imminently pleasureable and this wine will really strike a chord with many pleasure seekers. Such an opulent nose of clove, cardamom and cinamon spice. Very rounded with no edges and balanced, but again, the wine lacks typicity, variance, charisma and identity. One topic of the discussion was vertical tastings and their importance. We were in agreement that seminal vineyards show authenticity in vertical tastings; by that I mean that the wine is authentic to its terroir as well as authentic to the vintage. This 07 Caymus is neither, an international vagabond of no origin or heritage. I could see how many could go crazy over it though. Very hedonistic but don't expect it to ever be in my cellar.
My first '07 Caymus... and now I can understand the enthusiast around that wine! Amazing nose of sweet vanilla! Rich, full and balanced taste. Drinking very well right now and seems to have potential to improve. 93 pts now and probably 94-95 in a couple of years. Lasted 5 days (vacu-sealed at room temperature) with no sign of degradation. Great wine!
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Outstanding bottle. Shared with the wife that only like whites - Rislings and Chardonnay. She really enjoyed it. HAd with a steak and maybe I'll get lucky. Need I say more...thanks Caymus.
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words like soft & sweet come to mind on this one. it is so smooth to me too. really loved it. did get the vanilla...did get alot of sweet fruit. my only question is how long this one will last? i happen to think at $55 per this one is worth it.
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notes consistent with previous although this time I think my palate was overpowered with a previous wine I didn't seem to find as much in this particular bottle
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No detailed notes. Dinner in the Cecchin Room at the Rosewood. This was the wine special for the evening at $80. 3 bottles turned into 6 for the table. Enjoyed by all, this was rich and fairly heavy, but approachable without the awkwardness I'd expect in such a young wine. A great wine with the steaks that most of us ordered. I do wonder about its longevity given that I didn't detect many of the characteristics (tannic, closed, acidic) that I'd associate with aging long and gracefully. With more of these back home, I'm thinking a 5-7 year drinking window (now through 2017).
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This bottle blew me away! Great texture with all sorts of ripe fruits on the nose and pallet. Nice creamy finish with moderate tannins and nice mouth feel. WOW!
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3 hour decant. Very dark color. Nose of cassis, candied fruit, nutmeg, and hints of mint and chocolate. On the palate very full bodied and rich with dark fruit, well integrated oak. Long creamy finish with nice balance. Glad I have another one.
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Dark, dark, color. Very inviting nose of candied berries, cassis, vanilla, nutmeg,and cigar box. Also has hints of old leather and dusty boxes, very much like a grandparent's closet. Almost antique, yet very intriguing. On the palate this wine does not miss much. Nice dark berries and plums, that's well balanced with mouth coating tannin. 15% Alcohol is also kept somewhat in check. A dark earthiness of tobacco, mocha, and leather is very prominent. Beautiful velvety mouthfeel. This wine is drinking beautiful now and should only get better this time. I can honestly say a nice buy at $60!
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Incredible. Strawberry cotton candy, vanilla cream, cinnamon, licorice. It's all there. WOW. This just happens to hit my palate perfectly. I would love to have a case of this and open one every year to see how it evolves. A steal for $60.00. Do yourself a favor a pick up one of these gems.
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Second time with this wine and might have been a bad bottle. Thought it was thin and lacking much fruit. Decanted for 3 hours. Disappointing. From memory the first one was significantly better.
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This is a great wine. The texture and feel make it unique among other California Cabs. I would have liked some more action on the nose, but the overall feel of the wine makes up for it. That being said, Caymus is at least 20% overpriced due to its name.
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Pop and pour, which I think was a mistake because this did not show quite as well as previous bottles that I have decanted but it was still quite good. Big, dark, pretty concentrated. Lots of dark fruits, blackberry, blueberry, plum, mocha, and coffee. The oak is there but does not stick out, and will integrate with some additional time in the bottle. Soft on the palate with good mouthfeel and weight. Not incredibly complex now and it will be interesting to see where this goes in 3, 5, 10 years. I think it will easily last 10 years and will be quite enjoyable. I can see how many people think this is overdone. It is not an elegant CA Cabernet. Fun to drink!
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This was the second time tasting this wine. This bottle was decanted for 2-3 hours and just didn't show the depth or intensity of the previous from a few months ago but was still good.
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Popped and slow o'ed for 5 hours, served at roughly 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Deep purple/crimson hue. Forward nose of plummy dark fruits, deep black currant, creme de cassis, melted "raisinets," and toasty oak. Medium-plus body. Thoroughly modern style Cabernet on the palate, with oodles of decadent fruit - think black cherry cordial, overripe blackberries, milk chocolate candy bar, vanilla bean, and heavy handed toasted oak - did Robert Foley help with this one? Soft, velvety tannins round this wine out on the moderate-plus finish. Drinking perfectly right now and doesn't seem to have the structure needed for serious aging...should last for at least 5-8 years (was this made with the intention of early drinking?).
Although lacking in complexity, this is delicious and profound in it's own hedonistic fashion...will certainly alienate just as many as it "Wows!"
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Still very very young. Fairly non-descript at this point. Can only hope that after a few years in the cellar it will be the great wine that we are expecting.
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A little over ripe for me and too much oak treatment. Nose is wonderful however oak was distracting on the finish. I can see a lot of people liking this. Not bad just not my cup of tea.
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I actually liked this more than the SS. More raw and primal, the SS is over the top and fake/manufactured tasting. This one is more tannic and more interesting. Very big, very tasty.
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Carolyn Nichol's Birthday Party (Ladera Ranch, CA): Lots of tannis, it's still a baby. But a very nice caymus for sure. dark fruit and medium finish. Still too tight right now but this has promise to jump a couple points higher after a long nap.
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A little too much of a good thing. The first sip was wow, but it didn't seem to improve on it. I don't see much of a future for this wine, but it is good drinking now and probably for the next 5-7 years.
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Drank last night when dad was in town. Amy and i ripped into this and Dad went with a Simi Chardonnay. Didn't think much about breaking it down for a review at the time. Memory of it is just of a very good napa cab and all you expect from the archetype. Nothing ever with Caymus that sets it apart for me. Realtive to $20-$30 bottles it is a great treat, but in this price range i'd rather the Justin or Altamura. Would never turn down a glass of course. 92 JDM
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A WOW wine for me. Like drinking choclate devil cake. Silky smooth, complex beautiful flavors of berries/vanilla/choc, some oak but perfectly in balance. I tasted, I quaffed, I bought a case the next day.
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A stunning bottle of wine. Luscious red fruit and some blueberry as well, that goes on and on. Slight hint of vanilla and oak. Beautifully integrated tannins. Even at a young age...outstanding
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There is nothing elegant about this wine. It is just over the top oak and extracts. Not my thing at all. Might as well buy a $20 Australian shiraz--this Caymus reminds me a little of lower end Mollydooker wines. Pass.
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same as the first - so immediately approachable - I get why there is a bit of a backlash against this by some people - it's just a very very nice balanced and fruit forward wine - - it doesn't ask you to think about whether you like it or not, or whether you should like it or not - it's just there to be enjoyed. No idea what this will do long term in the cellar - presently doesn't last long enough in the bottle to see if there's going to be more to it - but - it's a terrific wine to share and enjoy NOW>
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I certainly don't remember such an aggressive oak treatment to this wine before. Was it spoofilated, or just blown out of proportion? The dark black cabernet fruit profile was pretty good, but the rest of the constituent parts were a little out of balance. I wonder if this wine will ever be like some of its siblings from the early 1990's? Time will tell, but I don't think so. I really do believe it will settle down SOME, but I'm not sure how much. I have drunk some other 2007's that saw plenty if not 100% new oak, and they did not have this aggressive out-of-balanceness, if you will. 87+
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This wine is a caricature of what a fine cali cab can be. I don't mean that as a complement. There is no subtlety or finesse here at all. Perhaps a few years in the bottle will bring it into balance.
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Dark color. An intense nose of spice, cherry, plum and oak. The palate features dark fruits, vanilla, oak and spices. A medium finish and this is a balanced wine. No flaws evident. This is the best Caymus I have tasted in years.
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Decanted for 2 hours. Have had this wine 7 times now and really enjoy it every time. Drinking great from the first sip. Big, dark, pretty concentrated. Lots of dark fruits, blackberry, blueberry, plum, mocha, and coffee. The oak is there but does not stick out, and will integrate with some additional time in the bottle. Soft on the palate with good mouthfeel and weight. Not incredibly complex now and it will be interesting to see where this goes in 3, 5, 10 years. I think it will easily last 10 years and will be quite enjoyable. I can see how many people think this is overdone. It is not an elegant CA Cabernet. Fun to drink!
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Beth says licorice. We like this one alot. Chuck Wagner is a talented winemaker. For those of you that don't know, this blend is the result of Chuck buying grapes from 30-40 growers, tasting all of them, selecting the ones he likes, then blending the best along with his own estate fruit to produce 30,000 cases. Unbelieveable consistent quality over the years. Anyone can make 500 cases of good wine ... Caymus makes 30k. Buy this wine and enjoy over the next 10 years.
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I am not going to give this a rating because I am not sure that I got a perfect bottling of this acclaimed wine. I had a bottle a Ruth's Chris this week and thought I was drinking blueberry soda. Very syrupy and sweet. Much lighter than I recall more recent Caymus vintages. I have a bottle in the cellar that I may hold on to and see what it's like in future years.
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Young. A little candy like at first but picked up some structure as we went along. Deep, fruit dominated. Not much acid. Strong nose. Hoping for better.
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The nose had raspberry and spice, leather, and some chocolate at the end. The palate was very smooth, and slightly sweet, and had raspberry, cherry, mocha, and a leather finish.
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We did a mini verticle vs. the 97 Caymus. Everyone preferred the 97 over the 07, although I thought the 07 was outstanding and improved over time with air, it had only been decanted for a short period. Darker and thicker than the 97. Wish I had more of both
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Gorgeous. Needs to breath for a while as alcohol on opening was a bit overwhelming. Milk chocolate, vanilla, lots of rich dark berries, luscious. Lovely to drink now and best of all improved over the next couple of days as the alcohol aroma disappeared yet all the wonderful flavors stayed full intact. Off to buy more and will hold a few for a few years too.
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Very good...smack you in the face nose of vanilla and dark fruit. On the palate just a blast of chocolate covered cherries on vanilla cookies...with a spicy component and great smooth tannins. But, at 15.0% alcohol, is close to being over the top - too Aussie syrah like in its oaky syrupy goodness...that said, it was a perfect match for grilled NY strip...maybe a little bottle age will calm the fruit and the heaviness down a little?
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Wow! This is a fantastic wine! It was clearly meant for my palate. Even as a 2007 this is immediately ready to drink out of the bottle. I had this at dinner (BYOB) so started drinking right away. The wine remained remarkably unchanged over the hour or so while showing some improvement with time. This is a big wine that should age nicely if you can avoid drinking it all right away. The mouth feels is like a favorite, soft, and comfortable blanket covering your tongue. The color is a dark, thick purple that could stain the glass. The nose is huge with ripe dark fruit and an incredibly pleasant approach to the senses. The initial taste hits with dark fruit (plums are evident) and a balance of spices to match. The wine has a lushness that last from beginning to end. This is not overly oaked and I would say that the balance is very good (more heavily weighted toward the fruit than the wood, tannins, acid, or alcohol). The wine does not seem complex but actually requires a focus on the flavor to enjoy all it holds due to SO MUCH flavor. Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy!!! I need to buy more.
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What a nice surprise! A friend opened a bottle on Christmas Eve and all 3 of us that sampled the wine were blown away with the complexity and drinkability. The nose is an interesting combination of spice and rich plum. First sip gives you a mouthful of chocolate,dark berry fruit and mocha all with very soft but present tannins. One taste made me seek out this wine and now I have 36 bottles to enjoy now and in the future.
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Dense plum, cassis, and blackberry syrup with gripping tannins and a long, beautiful finish. This has the potential to age for 10 years or more, but it's drinking deliciously now. Hold for awhile if you have the patience.
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Opened with Christmas Eve dinner, and this was a massive disappointment. I thought this was pretty good when I had it at a dinner party earlier in the fall, but this bottle was completely one-note. And that note was cotton candy.
I returned the rest--more for the rest of you.
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Opened and tasted at 63 degrees without decanting. Dark garnet in color. It is not often a wine's aroma makes my mouth water but the rich fruit welling up from this glass is doing just that. Big, rich, luscious fruit. Dark cherry, cocoa and spice. Tannins in the finish but not unpleasantly so. Napa Cab alright. This is good stuff.
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The good news is that this wine definitely delivers on what I've heard. It's a big, aromatic California Cabernet, with so many interesting elements. Over a period of about 15 minutes I picked up blackberry, chocolate, coffee, dark cherry, paprika and herbs on the nose. So many good things, it's hard to list them all. In the mouth, it's just as extravagant, but without as many spice and herb notes, mostly cherry, plum, dark berries and espresso. It's a 15% alcohol wine, but, even at that high level, it's an incredibly well balanced wine with very firm tannins, mild but good acidity and an incredibly long finish. Definitely still a little young, but deserving of the Caymus name. This is a fabulous wine and should have the stamina to peak at about 5 - 7 years...just decant it if you want to enjoy it now.
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Hmmm, what to say about this wine. Opaque ruby in the glass, with a nose of ripe black fruits and creamy vanillin oak. The mouth was moderately dense with little to no perceptible tannins and a general lack of acidity that gave it an overall impression of flabbiness. The finish was a little over the top in its sweetness. This would certainly stand out in a blind tasting but it lacks the structure and stuffing to warrant a higher score. A little disappointing for such a highly acclaimed vintage.
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wow! Awesome! WOTN Not much nose initially, after airation it much improved. Vanilla is HUGE on the palate, slight oak, strawberry cotton candy super smooth. this is drinking really well. loved it
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Way too ripe for my taste. Full-bodied with lots of dark rich espresso and ripe fruit - a touch too sweet for me. Also a bit hot. Two weeks later, had the 2002 Caymus regular label cab, and it reminded me of how good Caymus can be. i thought 2007 was supposed to be a great year...
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Wow, was this some great juice! Juicy candied fruit on the nose; sort of reminds me of cotton candy, in a good way. My impression of the nose was that this would be too jammy, and it almost is, but it walks the tightrope beautifully. Mature, sweet Cabernet with an explosion of lively smooth and caressing bright fruit with a nice lengthy finish, without crossing the line into the too jammy territory. I'm glad many thousands of cases of this wine were produced, because I'm going to have to get some more of this wine before it's all gone!
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Dense, concentrated fruit forward with expresso and cola. Yes, this is over-extracted and not all that complex (althogh some residual tannins suggest a bit of cellar time may be a benefit) but it is drinking wonderfully right now and is a particular crowd pleaser among seasoned drinkers who tolerate this style and particularly among more occasional embibers
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This bottle was a little too sweet for me. Lots of vanilla and oak on the nose, more vanilla, molasses, sweet blackberry on the palate. Quite a bit flabby. Other newbies liked it more than I did. Need big, serious red meat to go with wine.
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When I first opened this wine, I thought it was just another solid effort from the folks at Caymus. But after it breathed for just a little while I'm thinking this vintage might be a high water mark for Napa Cab. Classic Cabernet aromas of black currant with a touch of vanilla. Perhaps a little nutmeg. On the palate this wine is straight cola in a good way. Hardly tannic at all and it's only 2 years old. I was worried it was going to be a little young, but not at all. Perhaps not age-worthy but I thought this was an outstanding wine. A value at around $55 retail.
With 3 hours of air. Nose: Vanilla, cedar, blackcurrants, hint of pencil lead. Rich and perfumed, in a good way, but certainly not complex. Palate: Vanilla, plums, hint of licorice, insanely velvety tannins on the attack. Further develops into sarsaparilla and molasses on the mid-palate, totally coating your palate with rich sweetness, but it has transitioned away from fruit. Tannins surge a little, gripping just a hair, but do more to show their amazing texture than any negative qualities. Vanilla and cedar frame the incredibly long finish. Not a wine that I would say has noticeable structure and balance, but the roundness, texture, and new world richness are decadent and delicious. I'll definitely echo what others have said about its current state - this wine is strutting its youthful side incredibly well, however I'm not sure it has the structure to age. Drink now.
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CES Lab Wine Tasting #4 (Home): Decanted about an hour before consuming. Fresh, ripe fruitiness on the nose with plenty of blueberry and blackberry. Nice creaminess on the palate as well, with length of about 30 seconds. Drank after a 2004 Lewis Merlot, which was a bit heavier and lush. The Caymus was more fresh, although it had comparable levels of fruit extraction. This is really a solid wine in 2007.
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had a taste of this at joe canal's (iselin) this wine is outstanding. nose bursting with fruit. chunky frame. great finish. i agree with gv that it will easily go 15 years and get better every year. the wine begs to be accompanied by a ny strip steak.
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Dark ruby in color...Wow this is a big wine but very very well made...Nose: Tons of dark fruit along with chocalate and a hint of oak...For such a young wine this baby is open for business!!..Palate: Candied fruit jump on your palate with some cream on the midpalate..Dark chocalate and coffee with a slight hint of oak on the backend..Complex and so well balanced..A great effort by Wagner..This should improve even more in the cellar, I set a few aside for future enjoyment..I cannot wait to get my hands on some special selection cabs...Cheers!!!
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Braised Pork Cedar Plank with Crystallized Sugar.... this nose of Eggplant Parmesan is just an invitation to the Smoked Pork Cedar Raspberry Party. This wine is scrumptious, Can't wait to try the SS.
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Took and consumed at a steakhouse restaurant. Very similar to my previous tasting experience. Showed better after about an hour of aeration and continued to improve throughout the evening. Paired extremely well with the ribeye, and both the food and wine were improved by having them together.
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A terrific effort! Decanted it only for an hour. Deep ruby color. The nose is rich of fruity berries. Initial taste is of heat that went up the nose (15% alcohol). This became less apparent with decanting time. A mouth full of cherries and berries but with structured smooth tannins. Only a hint of oak. A most pleasing and very long chocolate finish. Hard to believe but remarkably ready to drink now. You got to try this if you can find it,
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Had at a restaurant, pop and pour. Nose of cedar, dark berry fruit, vanilla, obvious oak. Initial burst of creamy fruit on the palate, with raspberry joining the blackberry I got on the nose. This is surprisingly light on its feet for a young cab, esp. given the nose. Vanilla and cedar on the midpalate transitions to a lingering finish of licorice and hints of moccha with smooth tannins. This needs a little time to come together on the back end, but overall I was surprised by the balance in a wine this young and concentrated up front, and without the benefit of a decant. I'll look for more of this.
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California Night (Binny's Highland Park, highland park IL): nose: sleek and polished nose that is a bit tight, but very good with excellent balance and tones of black and red currants, dark red fruits, oak, cherries, and bits of anise. Excellent depth with a good richness to it
taste: full bodied with a real smooth feel to it. Good supporting tannins and good depth with tones of black and red currants, dark red fruits, oak, and some tones of anise. The tones are very vibrant right now
overall: young, but very delicious. Well balanced and comes off as needing some more time, or a lengthy decant. There is a real attractive dark profile to it that gives it a sort of mysterious quality
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Dark garnet color in the glass, clear hue throughout. Nose of thistle, dark chocolate, a bit of meat and some rich black berries. Rich flavors for berries, mocha, blueberries and black cherries. Light to medium acidity, medium tannins, medium body. Drink over the medium term.
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Big Reds for Cool Evenings (Farpointe Cellar): The nose is an explosion of chocolate and coffee. There was also a lot of berries - raspberry, blackberry, and currants. The palate was extremely smooth, with lots of chocolate and coffee. It also had dark berries, and an oaky finish.
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Decanted for 2 hours. Nose of bright ripe jammy red fruit, baking chocolate, sugared jelly donut and fresh tilled earth on the nose with same red fruits, leathery and sweet tannins showing on the palate. A little heat on the finish lasting 30 seconds. Second day showed better integrated tannins and less heat. This one lost much of its jammy, fruity nose on the second day but gained a little more elegance, showing scorched earth, olive tapenade and cedar box on the palate. Overall, very nice - a quality Cab from an outstanding vintage. Well balanced with nice complexity. A little time will improve this one a bit but this is very approachable now. Highly reccomended.
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Classic Rutherford style. Deep cherry, plum, leathery Rutherford dust. Definitely a big boy, but still shows that amazing balance of tannin to acid to body. Definitely needs some time to mellow, but the bottle called out to me and said, "Open me now, you won't regret it." And I didn't...
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Very ripe, extremely solid wine. Surprisingly open for such a young wine. A lot of dark fruit. I plan to sit on these for a while and see where they go. 91 with definite room to improve.
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Tasted at Caymus, in their normal lineup. Had a lot of 2007 Cabernet that trip and this one stood out above all the rest. The best wine I have ever tasted from Caymus, including Special Selection. In fact this was tasted alongside the 2006 Special Selection and blew it out of the water. Massive aromatics, with seemingly endless nuance. An enormous mouthfeel, with flavors expanding and unfolding in a continuous progression. Nearly interminable finish. This was the first time I felt convinced that 2007 was a really special vintage. Look forward to revisiting this again and again.
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Bell peppers, cherry, oak and some lily on the nose. Sweet, blueberry, blackberry, strawberry jam and vanilla. Amazingly no heat. Straight-up, monolithic fruit bomb, but very drinkable. Served with steak cooked on the grill and paired well. This will be a steakhouse best seller.
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Great bottle of wine for < $60. This great wine needed minimal decanting time, approximatelly only 30 minutes. Nose: Right out of the gates you can identify the classic Caymus nose. There is a definite cedar box component along with touches of oak and dark berries and chocolate. I could smell this all day. Wow. From the nose you can determine that this wine is very balanced and very civilized since the oak component has been tamed quite a bit when you compare this vintage to previous ones.
Taste: Huge wine but you cannot tell that it tips the scales at 15% alcohol. Silky smooth and with great balance. There are touches of oak much in the style of previous Caymus bottling but it is integrated without the "sugary" or over oaked taste taste that the previous 2006 vintage had. The finish brings it home very nicely. I was not clocking the finish but I would guess around 45 seconds. Who notices these things when you are enjoying yourself? This wine is so delicious that imy friends and I enjoyed it alone but you can pair it with your favorite red meat. Several of my friends commented on how smooth and civilized this wine is. What a treat. I would say that this is the best non-special select Caymus I have tried so far and would not hesitate to buy more real soon.
Cheers!
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Cabernet Time - Silver Oak & Friends (Wine Exchange. Orange, CA): 2007 is one of the best vintages in California and this wine shows it. The nose is powerful. Notes of vanilla and caramel without being jammy. Silky smooth mouth feel. Power house in concentration. Awesome balance. This is a great value ~$50 price category. It reminds me of the question: Why pay less?
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very approachable with silky tannins and a bit more forward than some of the cabs in the past from caymus. I think this will score well as it has the ripeness that appeals to so many now days.
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K&L Charity Event. Nose of cassis, black cherry fruit, touch of wood, more of the same on the palate, medium/big body of cabernet flavors fill the mouth, very good but not great, medium/long flavors on the finish.
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4/6/2024 - Tym4wine Likes this wine:
Rating would be 90. Drinking it’s age. Super soft tannins with dark fruit and good acidity and structure. Caymus old school. Perfectly crafted in its prime and still highly enjoyable. Recommend to drink now.
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3/3/2024 - ogres3 Likes this wine: 91 Points
First bottle to be emptied at a wine tasting. Certainly has a reputation. Pretty sure three of the other wines clearly were better. Consistently Caymus.
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1/6/2024 - Inforred Likes this wine: 90 Points
I misplaced this bottle and just stumbled across it. Surprisingly fresh. Modest bricking. Complex aroma featuring dark fruit, tar, and cinnamon. Taste is surprisingly fruity. Alcohol is noticeable. Since I thought it was a lost cause this was a great bonus find
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9/25/2023 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 93 Points
At peak, not as much RS as the current stuff but still more than I remembered
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8/29/2023 - matthyson wrote: 96 Points
Pop and pour; slight bricking around the edges but shows more youthful than the vintage on the bottle. Wonderful bouquet that opens with notes of cedar, wild game and brooding raspberries. Secondary hints of spearmint, iodine, and an ever so subtle bell pepper rounding out the nose. On the palate, bright red fruits marry perfectly with supplemental flavours of olive tapenade and chinotto. Dusty smooth tannins support a beautiful structure with balanced alcohol and lip smacking acidity. An elegant wine drinking at its peak that keeps you coming back for more after a 40+ second finish. Outstanding.
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8/17/2023 - bjbu Likes this wine: 91 Points
WSET II tasting evening: Intensity medium. Fruit on the sweet side: blackberry, black cherry, dough, liquiroce, meat, white pepper, herbal. Tannins medium(+). Acidity medium. Finish medium(+). Alcohol a tad overwhelming.
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8/17/2023 - ThijsV Likes this wine: 93 Points
WSET 2 group tasting (My place, Utrecht, NL): After 16 years still so much fruit! Medium+ intensity on the nose with plum, black ripe cherries, bacons, spices, vacurub, licorice, sweet fruit. Medium acidity, medium+ finely engrained tannins, very long finish. The 15% abv does show. 92-93
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7/9/2023 - Aztec94 wrote: 92 Points
Decanted for about an hour and drank over the next couple hours. It could have benefitted from a longer decant. It was smokey and slightly bitter on the finish upon opening. Over the following few hours it opened up and evened out. More fruit came out (red and black), along with molasses and cedar. A hint of smoke was still there, but the bitterness disappeared. Overall pretty enjoyable.
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4/14/2023 - Pike_Fisherman Likes this wine: 93 Points
A bit past its prime. Should have had it 2-3 years ago.
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3/27/2023 - MCRCELLAR Does not like this wine:
Flat, not much flavor, a bit bitter, maybe to old.
Double decanted. Second day even less flavor.
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9/8/2022 - pinotluvr wrote: 92 Points
Oh yeah….nicely aged and glad to be enjoying right now.
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8/23/2022 - pinotluvr Likes this wine: 92 Points
In a good spot. Time to finish these off.
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8/15/2022 - knlowery Likes this wine: 94 Points
This was delicious when first opened and very inviting and luscious.
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7/17/2022 - oldcabman Likes this wine: 92 Points
Still chugging along, albeit not terribly complex. Nice balance of fruit and other typical cab characteristics.
Drink up - probably will not improve with further age.
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5/19/2022 - Hanibal Does not like this wine: 86 Points
worst than my last one... syrupy, too sweet and high alcohol... thankfully no more
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4/16/2022 - michigan dogs Likes this wine: 94 Points
My last bottle and the best or 4. I've had this bottle a long time and figured it was near the end of its drinking window. I do not like Caymus since they went to being mass produced with added vanilla and sugar, but this wine was excellent, balanced, smooth, good mouthfeel and very good acidity. What a treat and a bigger surprise. Too bad they don't make a cab like this anymore.
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4/9/2022 - wineshaman wrote: 90 Points
Decanted with light sediment, tasted after 30 minutes in decanter, last bottle of six, consistent scores since first bottle reviewed more than a decade ago.
Pleasant nose, typical dark fruits on palate, dark plum, dark currants, cassis, classic Caymus RS, vanilla and oak, fully integrated, so drink soon
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4/8/2022 - eson73 wrote: 93 Points
Fantastic Napa Cab. Vanilla, hay, cedar and still some tannins. Has a lot to give but will likely not get much better.
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3/6/2022 - vanpe003 wrote:
No detailed notes, but in a very good place right now.
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2/28/2022 - Rjmathias Likes this wine:
Luscious, smooth tannins and great mouthfeel. Drinking well. Blackberry and cassis notes. Absolutely Yummy!
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2/26/2022 - Califriend Likes this wine:
Fruit forward but not sweet
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2/1/2022 - wbduval Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still drinking well
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11/12/2021 - napasoutherner Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very easy and nice bottle of Faunus from a great vintage! Lots of dark ink with moderate layers and depth. Some dust and volcanic ash. Medium finish.
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8/21/2021 - maxima wrote: 87 Points
Encore une fois, déception.
Boisé et assez extrait.
Fruits noirs et tannins serrés avec un arrière-gout
de sirop contre la toux!
Pas dans ma palette depuis
quelques années cette cuvée!
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8/20/2021 - Sfflyer123 wrote: 90 Points
Pleasant wine. Has somewhat of a taste of "over-extraction" and some "medicinal" flavors. Almost an undercurrent of cough syrup. Very drinkable if you like this style. Old prunes, cough syrup, medicinal. 90 pts.
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6/12/2021 - Somm David T Likes this wine: 94 Points
For steak dessert, 2007 Caymus Classic. Chuck, why oh why, did you change the original styling of this wine?
I ran out of my cellared Caymus Classic. Classic is pre 2012 vintage. In 2012, it was changed to a highly marketable consumer friendly wine syrup that drink well early for some. I can’t palate it.
I recently went to the secondary market and found some beautifully stored 2007. Missed it.
The nose reveals, stewed & candied; blackberries, black raspberries, both plums, black cherries, poached strawberries, raspberries, boysenberries, full scorched earth, grey clay, potpourri, dark under stated ambers, dark, moist forrest floor, dry sage, notes of Worcestershire sauce, eucalyptus with withering; dark, red, purple flowers.
The mouthfeel is glorious with balance & length. Ripe fruits of; stewed & candied; blackberries, black raspberries, both plums, black cherries, poached strawberries, raspberries, boysenberries, blueberries hovering over all the rest, scorched earth, dark spice with subtle yet punctuating heat, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon & vanillin, dry crushed, limestone rocks, grey, mud clay, potpourri, dark under stated ambers, dark, moist forrest floor, oak char, expresso, black licorice, dry sage, notes of Worcestershire sauce hues, eucalyptus/mint with withering; dark, red, purple flowers. The acidity is a rushing, spring mountain river. The length, balance fruit & earth, elegance, polish would captivate most any discerning palate.
Chuck, I think you should make both Caymus Syrup & Caymus Classic again.
She is at the tail end of her precipice.
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5/3/2021 - 55degrees wrote: 92 Points
I received this as a gift. Much better than expected.
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5/3/2021 - RightBankKane Likes this wine:
A friend opened this last night for dinner (I brought a 2003 Grand Puy Lacoste). I had never had a Caymus as Cali is not of interest to me much. And this one had a yellow label, which I see the "Napa Cuvee" has, but since there are no notes for this vintage under that entry, I figured to post this here. I certainly enjoyed this. Particularly, I really did not detect much unintegrated oak. It's a fairly dense and heavy wine which did not seem hot despite the 15% declared ABV. Some raisiny notes. Not energetic but placid. Not as tannic as the GPL. Not bad at all. Wouldn't purchase this myself but would not recoil if offered it again!
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3/18/2021 - RusisWine wrote: 93 Points
Eucalyptus on the nose with sweet follow. Lovely California candy.
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3/16/2021 - WineGuyFL Likes this wine: 94 Points
This was a great bottle of wine. Unfortunately, it is my last bottle of this one. Decanted for 2+ hours.
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3/6/2021 - wineshaman wrote: 90 Points
Decanted 30 min, no sediment. Very dark color, rich and one dimensional, dark berries, some RS but in check, a bit of vanilla but also in check, little structure or acidity, one bottle left which I feel a need to drink in the near future. I was hoping for more from this vintage of Caymus but 90 points is not half bad!!!
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2/15/2021 - Ralphie1 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Wonderful. Great structure. Worth the wait. This is why I buy Caymus.
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1/17/2021 - sfbikeguy Likes this wine: 93 Points
Another solid bottle. Decanted for 3+ hours before drinking. I wanted to do longer, but my planning didn't work out. Great color. Great nose. A ton of sediment, so decanting helps. Not too jammy even though it's a fruity wine. My opinion is Caymus works just fine if you pair it with the right food. In this case the hangar steak recipe from the Susan Goin's AOC cookbook which has some zip and an excellent chimicurri sauce. The wine was very enjoyable after the meal too. Since I purchased a case fo this wine and the 2007 vintage was great, I'd summarize my experience by recommending a hold for the first 10-12 years if you can. Know that's not realistic. Then give any openings a ton of airtime (5+ hours) to get be full benefit. I have 3 '07's left, some 09's and some 12's and I'll make sure I give them more time to open.
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1/11/2021 - winelover1808 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Jammy and very CA cab and very delish! Loads of red and dark berries, Asian spices, some cinnamon, some anise and black licorice on the end. Mouth coating with no hard edges and a long pleasant finish. Sweet fruit but still savory. Def at its peak as I can’t imagine it gets better as the fruit will likely diminish and this is all about the fruit.
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11/16/2020 - RusisWine wrote: 93 Points
Sweetness all the way around! Dark fruits with eucalyptus nose. Weighty on the palate and strong finish. Drinking well right now.
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10/25/2020 - zylmanj Likes this wine: 95 Points
This is a very smooth cab with wonderful tannins. It is fruit forward and hedonistic. The aroma is good but leaves you wondering if this wine is going to be awesome or so so. My opinion landed on awesome but I like more hedonistic wines. This is a crowd pleaser and I am very glad I have 2 more. Although this is ready for action I think it can wait a couple years. I don't think it will improve or decline in the overall taste experience.
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9/13/2020 - bonedoc wrote:
07 caymus- ripe w sweetness consistent w house style -92
08 Ramey- best balance of the bunch, nicely done -94
09 Forman - bretty, tasted like Bordeaux. Flawed, not supposed to be this bretty
09 rothwell Hyde - best fruit, but a little over ripe. 93
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9/6/2020 - Poisey wrote: 93 Points
Smooth ans velvety with a great finish. Lots of blackberry, juicy plump dark fruit and nicely integrated vanilla oaky notes that ad to this wines sexy elegance. Decent acidity at this point. Easy drinking and very enjoyable. Probably really good for three more years or so. But who knows. Drink now-2023.
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8/27/2020 - maxima wrote: flawed
Bouchonnée/Kaputt!
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8/23/2020 - drducky126 wrote: 93 Points
still hitting its stride; tannins have softened; quite beautiful
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8/2/2020 - JBD wrote: 93 Points
Smooth as silk.
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7/31/2020 - Hanibal wrote: 89 Points
Too much of everything....the wood/vanilla is still too present. Needs lots more time for the wood to integrate but lots of fruit to let time bring it together.
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7/12/2020 - brianofthevine Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drinking really nice right now. Black fruits with a creamy texture and notes of chocolate and toasty oak.
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6/21/2020 - jmh st louis Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dense dark fruit, long body, delicious.
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6/8/2020 - Ara Kafafian Likes this wine: 94 Points
Blind, one thing is for sure, having tried their 2015 & 2016, Caymus no longer make this type of full throttle in your face, jammy fruit bombs. A crowd pleasure which does not offer much complexity now. Needs heavy fatty foods. Drinking window in Cellar tracker states to drink by 2018, this is no where near end of life. More like 20 years of life ahead of it, I would even bet longer.
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5/27/2020 - xxquadxx Likes this wine: 94 Points
Surprised how well it's still holding up. I disagree with CT drinking window. Presence of very smooth and velvety tannins and nice balanced acidity suggested, to me at least, 5 more years or so before any decline. Very nice nose and palate of rich cassis and intriguing secondary notes of leather and chocolate. Excellent on both days 1 and 2. This is probably one of the last Caymus vintages closer to the beloved older style before they started make over-ripped (still delicious) fruit compotes. I''l revisit my last bottle in 5 years. Cheers!
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4/29/2020 - xamasri Likes this wine: 95 Points
Held up well one of my favorites
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4/28/2020 - xamasri wrote:
With Asif.
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4/17/2020 - maxima wrote: 86 Points
Dire que j`ai déjà aimé ce vin, dans certains millésimes il
sont bien et gardent leur fruit bien dosé mais ce 2007 et les millésimes
plus récent sont surfait et manque d`acidité je trouve qui me fait
beaucoup douter pour la garde à moyen et long terme.
Comme d`autres ici, je trouve qu`il est correct mais
pas mal sur sont plateau, le fruit est en retrait,
on a encore du boisé et une impression de chauffe
mais c`est tout, manque de complexité et de longueur.
Dommage.
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4/16/2020 - JimSlatin wrote: 87 Points
good, but far far from great; I think this wine is near or at its peak right now, so drink in the next couple years or you take a risk of being disappointed.
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4/4/2020 - RusisWine wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful sweet nose and palate with ripe cherries and blueberries. Good length and balanced acidity. At its best now.
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2/28/2020 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 92 Points
At or just a touch past peak. This is just cherry fruit central. Zero tannin. Oak is light
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2/12/2020 - sfbikeguy Likes this wine: 93 Points
Opened 3 hours prior to drinking. This wine is in a great place right now and is a great example of Caymus. I bought a case and have consumed 7 bottles between 2014 and 2019. Holding the wine and Giving the wine time to open made a big difference. Enjoy.
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2/9/2020 - Snag One Likes this wine: 93 Points
This wine held up very well to over a decade in our cellar. Not an overly expressive nose. Layers of cassis, mocha, mint and blueberries. A wonderful finish.
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1/20/2020 - webbaker wrote: flawed
Corked. The polyethylene plastic wrap trick worked for the most part. Real shame, despite the cork taint, you could taste the nice fruit and the hint of something special.
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1/12/2020 - CashUSM16 wrote: 93 Points
Big, bold, punch you in the face NV Cab. Even after 13 years, the fruit is still very much forward but it has developed some secondary and tertiary flavors like sweet tobacco, leather, and cigar box. This one is ready but could maybe use another year or 2, but no more. When the bold, up front fruit starts to break down, you could lose this wine.
C: Deep purple with tawny hues developing at the rim
N: Ripe dark fruit, Leather, Cigar Box
P: Bold, very ripe black fruit (Cassis, Brambleberry), baking spices, sweet tobacco
F: Long finish of spice and leather
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11/28/2019 - vpoms wrote: 91 Points
This is the “old style” Camus, not the post 2012 vintages over extracted, high alcohol fruit bomb. Very deep purple color. Powerful nose of prunes, cooked black fruit, vanilla,chocolate, leather and game. Fully developed wine. On the palate it is dry with medium plus acidity, very refined medium tannins, high alcohol, full body, pronounced flavors of dried cherries, chocolate, leather, tar. Finish is medium. Very good wine. Drink up, should not be aged any further
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11/13/2019 - herbtcat Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still powerful and delicious. Perhaps losing some mid structure, but it doesn't detract at all. Paired very well with my rib eye steak and roasted potatoes. But, if you still have any around, it's time!
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10/20/2019 - topsitnick wrote:
Kocian Wedding
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10/11/2019 - bonedoc wrote: 90 Points
Sweet, silky, some slight brett/earth notes on the nose, low acid.
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9/5/2019 - maxima wrote: 87 Points
Bu au resto AVV le Méchant Steak, offrande de Marc.
Il l'avait carafé 3 heures et bu sur +/- 1 heure au resto!
Encore décevante cette cuvée, rien à voir avec le Special Selection
qui lui malgré sa hausse fulgurante de $, est toujours superbe...
j'ai compris depuis ce millésime et je n'ancave plus cette cuvée.
Fruits compotés et surfait, grosse prunes, c'est lourd et pataud, avec
une acidité déficiente pour ne pas dire inexistante cette fois.
Long et sur la chauffe. Nope!
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9/4/2019 - au96alum Likes this wine: 93 Points
I love this....drank it at a friend's house. Smooth...great nose. If all Cabs could be like this, the world would be a better place. Silky....beautiful after being decanted.
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8/25/2019 - Marc S wrote: 92 Points
- Brick color with medium forming legs and aromas of raspberry and blackberry. It's in total harmony and has flavours of strawberry and strawberry jam with a medium/full body. Satin-Like texture with a short finish.
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7/28/2019 - Marc S Likes this wine: 90 Points
The wine looks brick colored. The legs are slow. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like strawberry, blueberry and raspberry. It tastes like blackberry, blueberry and raspberry. The body is medium/full. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes short. The wine has high acidity.
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5/13/2019 - maxima wrote: 87 Points
Pas vraiment d'amélioration ici...encore boisé,
sur-extrait, surfait, sucré et capiteux.
Je ne touche plus à cette cuvée depuis ce millésime sauf si
quelqu'un l'apporte en déguste...et ça confirme ma pensée.
Il faut allonger les $ et y aller avec leur Special Selection
qui est depuis quelques millésime, hors d'atteinte malheureusement.
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4/21/2019 - Marc S wrote: 91 Points
Read my 04/14/19 notes
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4/14/2019 - Marc S wrote: 90 Points
- Brick color with medium forming legs and has flavours of blackberry, black currant, strawberry and licorice anise with a medium body. Smooth texture with a short finish - This wine is at its prim or slightly past.
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3/14/2019 - awineo Likes this wine: 90 Points
I was surprised that it was getting a little "tired" so soon.
Fortunately this was my last 2007.
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2/23/2019 - maxima wrote: 85 Points
Trop extrait et encore pas mal boisé, acidité assez
basse et finale sur la chauffe.
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2/14/2019 - John McCabe wrote: 94 Points
Very attractive. This has gotten a bit better with bottle age, lovely dark fruit, nice concentration, everything is so resolved at this stage of its evolution. Not sure if it gets better from here as it may just loose some of its power. The style of Caymus has changed completely since the '11 vintage and I never buy it any more but these older solid vintages are very nice, though likely over-priced now.
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2/10/2019 - The Wine Sherpa Likes this wine: 96 Points
I finally drank the last 2007 Caymus in my cellar. I had feared that it may be declining. I was wrong. It was fantastic and still strong. I could have waited another year or two but it is well
Within the window. I only wish I had more.
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11/30/2018 - Ranjan wrote: 95 Points
Awesome nose, crowd pleaser. Drinking well now.
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10/15/2018 - WineGuyFL Likes this wine: 92 Points
My notes say that earlier bottles of this were the best Caymus wines I had ever had. That is not the case now. It is not bad yet, but is clearly tiring. I would be a drinker.
Second night comments......was back to being a 93-95 rated wine. Completely different from the first night, when it was open at least 3 hours and did not show much. I just do not expect a 10+ year old bottle of California Cab to behave like this. I guess I will have to go with a multi-hour decant for the next bottle.
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10/7/2018 - Somm David T Likes this wine: 94 Points
I only have have a 1/2 dozen bottles of vintages that predate the 2012 vintage when Caymus still made wines in a style I appreciated. More; tannic, spice, earth and complexity.
Now, they are amongst the last to pick fruit, which translates into higher brix levels and much sweeter wines. They pick just as the grapes start to show the slightest raisin shrivel.
I thought I might be early on the 2007. Instead, it’s right around its peak form.
The nose reveals dark black currants. Ripe; blackberries, black plum, black raspberries, stewed plum, dark cherries, stewed strawberries and creamy raspberries. Dark spice, black tea, mixed dark berry cola, limestone minerals, rich dark soil, some dry crushed rocks, vanilla, cinnamon, sweet tarry notes, just a touch of eucalyptus with blue, purple and dark red fresh & withering flowers.
The body is full. Tannins round, grainy, tarry, sticky and meaty...60% resolved. Still lots of life in this 07....another 7-10 years of good drinking left. The wine is delicious. The structure, tension, length and balance are in a great spot. Ripe; dark black currants, blackberries, black plum, black raspberries, boysenberries, stewed plum, dark cherries, stewed strawberries and creamy raspberries. Dark spice with some palate heat, soft, understated and well integrated baking spices; light vanilla, clove and cinnamon. Black tea, mixed dark berry cola, black licorice, limestone minerals, rich dark soil, some dry crushed rocks, vanilla, cinnamon, sweet tarry notes, just a touch of eucalyptus with blue, purple and dark red fresh & withering flowers. The acidity is round and perfect. The flavors glorious. The long finish is extremely well balanced, seamless, it glides over the palate effortlessly and last minutes.
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9/22/2018 - Snag One Likes this wine: 93 Points
Decanted for an hour before we poured our first glass. The nose consisted of mocha, toast, mint, blueberries and black pepper. The palate was lush and had great layers of mint, black pepper, chocolate and ripe figs. This wine is still very structured, enjoyable and still not past it's prime.
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6/17/2018 - danielbleier Likes this wine: 92 Points
First bottle I have had that showed some signs of age, not negative, but the fruit has clearly receded.
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6/17/2018 - winelover1808 Likes this wine: 93 Points
delicious california cabernet - sweet cherry fruit with dusty mocha tannincs; excellent with the grilled rib eye!
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3/28/2018 - maxima wrote: flawed
Bouchonnée!
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3/27/2018 - Chefofthewoods wrote: 92 Points
Well structured at its age, rich with fruit but with a bay leaf or bramble character. Decanting and 2nd day improved that aspect. Otherwise quite ready at 11 years old.
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3/16/2018 - Napacablover Likes this wine: 96 Points
Wow! What a great bottle of wine!
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3/10/2018 - TSTEW22 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Fantastic. So much life left in this bottle. Must find more at auction.
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2/4/2018 - Magnum PI Does not like this wine: 86 Points
Drank this bottle decanted for an hour without food. My buddy Antonio and I tried this bottle after a less than enthusiastic tasting of a Chateau Les Grands Marechaux. This type of wine isn't my thing, so take that into consideration. I thought this bottle was slightly out of balance, and the fruit didn't really shine. The alcohol was too high, and all my usual criticisms of Napa cab over the past 20 years apply. The wine was sweet, and I have to say, nearly cloying. If this is your style, you will probably think this is a great bottle, but I didn't find much going on that was interesting, contemplative, or enticing.
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1/27/2018 - arnabbag61 wrote: 93 Points
The wine has low acidity. The wine finishes medium. It tastes like honey, black currant (cassis) and cherry. The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. The wine has polished texture.
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1/27/2018 - Delli Likes this wine: 93 Points
Note: based on our community this wine is through its window, I would guess it’s at peak and likely has another five years. The wine has lots of sulphate which are likely contributing.
Purple and opaque. The nose is very fruit for are dominated by dark fruit. The fruit spills over onto the palate and is complimented by a hint of liquorish. Beautiful and better expected. 5+12+18+8=93
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1/19/2018 - JS199 wrote: 93 Points
A massive vanilla & oak shake in a bottle. Perfect cork and wham, a bit youthful and really big. Other bottles were more ready to drink than this one. 15% Alcohol
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11/20/2017 - Ecoenophile wrote: 93 Points
Decanted and drank over 5 hours. Nose has lavender, vanilla, and a little baking spice notes. Palate is soft with muted red/blue fruits... but not very complex. In its simplicity, it is still very enjoyable. It is smooth and balanced. Tannins are still holding on.. but fine grained and adds a little enjoyable tartness to the finish.
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11/17/2017 - levinml wrote: 90 Points
I'm totally confused here. I'm a big Caymus fan from way back, but this struck me as one of those big, tannic monsters whose fruit never came through (two nights under pump). Lots of stuffing there, but it just never was a pleasure to drink by normal Caymus standards. Someone please explain.
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11/17/2017 - rocknroller wrote: 91 Points
Pretty similar to my last experience. Drink up.
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11/3/2017 - Bluethunder wrote: 93 Points
Decanted and drank over 4 hours. Dark Purple, dark sweet fruit, spice, cassis, medium body with nice structure and balance. It was best early so not sure a long decant needed.
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10/15/2017 - rocknroller wrote: 92 Points
Very dark red/purple color. PNP, drank 2 glasses over 2 hours. Very good out of the gate, the nose shines and shows quite pretty dark fruits, black raspberry, cassis, and black cherry all with an aromatic bright character mixed with tobacco and light earthiness. over time there is more spice and some background oak. The palate was reflective of the nose initially and showed brambly dark fruits, blackberry, cassis, blackberry liqueur, and hints of mountain cherry on top of the pepper, spice, tobacco and medium, well defined tannins. After an hour plus I found this showing a little alcohol and the fruit seemed to lose a bit of its vibrancy and the oak was more apparent. Probably best to consume these over the short term. 91+ to 92pts.
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10/15/2017 - BGK810 wrote: 92 Points
Classic caymus - black currant, anise, oak. Great cab.
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9/20/2017 - Napacablover Likes this wine: 94 Points
Awesome!
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7/23/2017 - Alberic13 wrote: 91 Points
The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are medium. Pungent. Hot. Alcohol on the nose. Full bodied, borderline chewy. Dried fruits. Hints of pepper. Tannins, but not overpowering. Lacks complexity. May be slightly past its peak. But still a very good wine.
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7/9/2017 - mdstone23 wrote: 93 Points
At its prime drink now!
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6/24/2017 - maxima wrote: 88 Points
En carafe pour un bon 3 heures et bu sur une période 1 presque 2 heures avant et pendant le repas,
de la bavette mariné au porto servi avec sauce au poivre et pleurotes!
Bu en même temps que le Kenwod Artist series 2007 et les 2 sont encore assez boisés, extraits et costauds...
je dirais qu le petit côté vanillé ressort plus dans le Caymus en ce moment.
Le nez est sur vanille, l`élevage et les bleuets. Une pointe de poivrons aussi mais moins que le Kenwood.
En bouche, c`est très fruités et ça rempli la bouche, pas mal de mache et des tannins assez charnus, un brin asséchants.
Super long mais avec un peu de chauffe.
Plus d`acidité que le Kenwood, me donne un peu plus d`espérance pour mes autres bouteilles.
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6/17/2017 - Snag One Likes this wine: 93 Points
Wonderful body, depth and structure. This bottle aged very well.
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5/21/2017 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Opened via Coravin to compare to the Special Selection of the same year. The nose is dead on, slightly less spicy, less but still heavily oaked and not as complex, but only a slight step down from the Special Selection. Firm tannins, lots of years left. The chocolate cherries are still there
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5/8/2017 - lynntee wrote: 94 Points
One word OUTSTANDING!! Only wish I had more.
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4/19/2017 - The Wine Sherpa Likes this wine: 93 Points
My penultimate bottle of this deliciousness
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4/10/2017 - bonedoc wrote:
Residual sugar, residual sugar, residual sugar... this wine is sweet! (but it's kind of nice for a quaff).
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4/8/2017 - djdaqm Likes this wine: 90 Points
I loved this wine when it was younger, but as it ages it seems to get more heavy-handed. Still lots of deep, dark fruit, but the oak is more pronounced and the acid doesn't come through. Showing it's alcohol, oak, and extraction now, without the vibrancy that balanced it before.
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4/4/2017 - shellylowen Likes this wine: 92 Points
Great nose, blackberry and plum, tons of tannins, some black pepper, and long finish
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3/31/2017 - Ranjan wrote: 95 Points
Drinking awesome, great nose. Cola, berry.
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3/26/2017 - MattB72 wrote: 93 Points
in a great place right now. starts with sweet cola flavors, but still has lots of secondary flavors. prob has 5+ yrs more, but drinking very well now.
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3/18/2017 - WineCPA wrote: 92 Points
Quite good and worth the wait. Tannins are mostly integrated. Velvety and smooth with gobs of black fruit and a hint of alcohol on the finish. Drinking perfectly now and I can't see this one getting much better. I'll never know for sure, as this is my last bottle.
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2/25/2017 - Rezy13 wrote:
Deep extraction; dark jammy fruit, smoke, sweet; meh.
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2/17/2017 - SpoochMan Does not like this wine: 87 Points
Opened at dinner party for Farran. Only had a small glass, and no detailed notes. My overall impression was Meh... The fruit has faded somewhat here making this a bit less over the top, but it didn't have the complexity to go with being more mature. Just OK -- not a style that I like anymore. Not a good value for the $65 I paid.
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1/22/2017 - walkerjfw wrote: 89 Points
Impromptu tasting session with Joeroen, Isobel, Valerie and Frits (Chez Walker - Princeton, NJ): Thought to add another "forgotten bottle" to this tasting. This one buried in one of the bins, nice vintage from a reliable producer...
Core color a deep garnet. Nice nose of red fruits, earth and coffee. Palate was red currant, plums, savory notes. Medium weight and finish. Sweetened tannins, resolved.
Nice enough wine in a good spot but I didnt find it showed much depth. Finish lacked any real complexity. Maybe past its prime, doesn have the depth of the Caymus Special Selection wines... drink now
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12/4/2016 - winejnky wrote: 91 Points
Really big wine, deep black with huge blackberry fruit flavors and plenty of oak, perhaps a touch too much.
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12/3/2016 - Night Train Likes this wine: 91 Points
Same as a few weeks ago. Well balanced, fairly rich, and a good finish. Holding up very well. Should be good for another year or (maybe) two.
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11/25/2016 - brianofthevine Likes this wine: 92 Points
Red/black cherry, plum, and blackberry fruit with caramel, vanilla, and subtle mint component on the end. Smooth tannins and finish.
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11/25/2016 - Napacablover Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very juicy and fruit forward. The nose is unbelievable! Glad I still have 10 bottles left of the 2007!
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11/6/2016 - JS199 wrote: 92 Points
Ready and able. Drinking well now.
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10/26/2016 - Snag One Likes this wine: 93 Points
This wine was terrific a few years ago, but now it's really hitting it's stride. The nose is elegant and plush with hints of bing cherries, mint, toast and pepper. The mouthfeel is lush with soft tannins and layers of red figs, cherries, cassis, mint, pencil lead and cocoa. This wine has rewarded us from time in the cellar.
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10/8/2016 - Night Train Likes this wine: 91 Points
Opened and poured into big-ass Bordeaux glasses about an hour before tasting. Nice nose - currants and espresso. Mostly currants on the palate, with a someone disappointing lack of complexity. Quite rich, with a long, seamless, and rich finish. Holding up very well (unlike the '06s I had last year). Solid wine, albeit overpriced.
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10/6/2016 - tantotinto wrote: 92 Points
Last bottle from this vintage and tasted right after opening. It has softened over the years. Still a plush wine but less so today and it has not added depth or complexity. Modest benefit, if any, that I can see to sitting on these. Drink 'em young.
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10/1/2016 - Outplaying wrote:
Concentrated, ripe and soft. I can see the mass appeal but I didn't find this to be very interesting.
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9/25/2016 - drmarclevine wrote: 90 Points
Decanted 45 minutes. Red/black plums and creamy root beer to my nose. Definitely modern, round and thick. Red/black fruit with a big hit of oaky vanilla. Sweet tannins all but resolved. Was missing some edginess and angularity. Went well with grilled chicken with an ancho chile rub. Drink now.
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9/21/2016 - winejnky wrote: 93 Points
Smooth yet shows plenty of depth and intensity; wonderful, robust blackberry fruit, with hints of mocha and oak/vanilla. This wine drinks really well, nice and plush.
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8/31/2016 - ataraxy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Delicious! 1 hour decant.
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8/28/2016 - bemeyer wrote:
very enjoyable. next bottle, decant for an hour ors
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7/30/2016 - gajalaa Likes this wine: 93 Points
This is drinking so well!
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7/30/2016 - Snag One Likes this wine: 92 Points
Decanted for two hours enabled extremely soft tannins and just the right amount of acidity. Not a big nose but son licorice, red figs, mint and toast. Nice mouthfeel with layers of toast, cocoa, toffee, mint, cassis and figs. Very nice wine that has cellared really well.
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7/13/2016 - djdaqm Likes this wine: 91 Points
I didn't get a chance to decant this wine before drinking, and had it with Korean bbq. It lacked the deliciousness from prior tastings, but still showed the concentration with decent acidity. The pure fruit compote didn't show through as much this time around, with a little more heat/alcohol prominent. Not much in the way of secondary flavors.
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7/8/2016 - winelover1808 wrote: 91 Points
Big wine. IMHO I think it needed a longer decant and/or more time in the bottle. A bit hot and too big perhaps. Very CA cab with loads of fruit, big perfume, and some heat. I'll let my remaining bottles age longer
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7/4/2016 - aecklund wrote: 94 Points
Let it open up a little, then it is very nice.
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6/22/2016 - dstraub wrote: 80 Points
Crap wine -- overextracted and loaded with mega purple. Glad its my last bottle.
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6/15/2016 - EvanRose wrote: 99 Points
A spectacular wine from a spectacular year. Fruit forward, great body, smooth tannins. The aroma was remarkable - earthy and rich. Shared with great friends over a good meal.
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4/29/2016 - davidandrose Likes this wine: 93 Points
5 years since last tasting, and this is a great example of a calicab with some age. Not decanted but allowed to breathe for 45 mins. Should have decanted. Young wood, glycerin, vanilla, tar on the nose. Great balance on the palate; smooth mouthfeel gently coats, no dust. Blackberry, dark plum....this is all about dark fruit, but with age that removes any "in-your-face" that's too typical of many callback. Fruit shows its Lewelling vineyard heritage, but definitely a different winemaking style. In a great place at present, can last to 2018+ but drinking close to peak today
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4/17/2016 - brigcampbell wrote:
It's been 6 years since last tasted. Tannins have integrated now. Creamy soft mouthfeel. Very dark and high concentration. Sort of makes me wonder if mega purple is the foundation if this wine.
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4/15/2016 - bonedoc wrote:
True to its style, ripe, rich, concentrated, sweet, milk/dark chocolate, and some heat. Better without food as a quaff, fruit forward Napa cab. Drink now or next few years.
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4/3/2016 - smithto Likes this wine: 93 Points
Another strong showing from Caymus. A bit stronger and more tannic than the typical smooth Caymus. Still a bit primary. Would suggest it's still a year or two away from it's peak.
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3/19/2016 - Night Train Likes this wine: 92 Points
Better than I'd expected and holding up fine. Beautiful nose. All kinds of berries, with not-so-subtle notes of spice, vanilla and leather. Fairly rich, with a very long, rich finish. Classic Napa Cabernet. Tasted right after an '09 Pride Cabernet, and (surprisingly) I liked the Caymus a little more.
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3/12/2016 - robertdtwo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Four hour Vinturi decant. Last of the great wines from this producer. Beautiful dark violet color. Wonderful bouquet of dark candied fruit, sweet berries and spice, with dry notes of wet leather, tobacco and mild forest floor. Just beautiful.
It seems to me that this '07 may (sadly) be the final vintage of "Caymus of Old" before their apparent shift towards creating immediately approachable and somewhat overextracted, sweet and flabby CAbs meant for expense-account-steakhouse consumption early in their life. Perhaps this strategy will be profitable for them, but it will send me elsewhere... If I can find any 2007s, I'm buying them up, because I have no real interest in continuing my vertical, as sad as that makes me.
Caymus from 2008 to present remind me of 1985's New Coke reformulation fiasco...
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3/9/2016 - salcorn wrote: 92 Points
chocolate powder, pepper, viscous mouth feel, black fruits completely in balance with nearly fully resolved tannins.
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3/7/2016 - tonsta wrote: 85 Points
Hot and unbalanced. Oak has taken over and leaves a really unpleasant finish.
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2/29/2016 - TK Mastres wrote: 94 Points
Excellent Cabernet. Decant for 1 hr. Wonderful cedar and full rich flavors of red fruit with soft luscious tannins. Prepped and opened for a small(ish) Cab dinner so notes are a bit sparse but was WOTN. Our wonderful host even threw a Hail Mary by swithing gears and busting out a 1993 Grange to try and de-throne the Caymus. No sale! ( but we did appreciate the attempt:-)
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2/26/2016 - wineshaman wrote: 91 Points
Decanted, no sediment! Plum, dark cherry and chocolate on the nose, fruit driven palate, with dark cherry, dark plum, sweet currants, vanilla cherry cola, long lush finish, that turned tart at the end. This a rich, smooth yet balanced Napa cab where the tannins seem fully integrated, drinking well now or over the next couple of years.
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2/24/2016 - vinodolphin Likes this wine: 93 Points
A real treat for us and our friends. Mouth filling dark fruit with mild smooth tannins. Finish was long.
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2/13/2016 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 90 Points
Lots of dark fruit but also more residual sugar than I personally like. Good density but a little flabby
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1/26/2016 - jbehrendt Likes this wine: 92 Points
Served with roast chicken and new potatoes with Jim and Judy Voelz. A complex, unique taste -- maybe a hint of eucalyptus? Very delicious. Decanted about 30 minutes before serving. Compared to Chimney Rock.
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12/24/2015 - tantotinto wrote: 93 Points
Our Christmas Eve wine for four of the last five years and tonight it is as good as it has ever been. Slightly closed at first but opened up in glass within 15 minutes. The oak has almost completely dissipated. Ripe luscious cherry fruit and spice. A Merry Christmas for sure after this bottle.
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12/11/2015 - Kdad Likes this wine: 91 Points
Can't get much smoother than this.
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12/5/2015 - bablues wrote:
Annual Christmas Wine Dinner and Cellar Raid (Naperville, IL): Didn't take detailed notes. Part of Christmas wine dinner and cellar raid. Sadly, I didn't get to taste this one but always a crowd pleaser
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11/29/2015 - iamandyc wrote: 92 Points
Aging well as fruit and "size" of the wine is moderating. Still a rich, dark, heavy wine but nothing as exaggerated as the last three vintages. Nice complexity. Finish was on the short side for me. A crowd pleaser.
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11/28/2015 - Colia wrote: 91 Points
Surprisingly good, after tasting more recent Wagner family vintages with so much residual sugar. Well made and at it's height.
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11/17/2015 - russomanno.frank@gmail.com wrote:
Error in count
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10/25/2015 - bboomer Likes this wine: 93 Points
Ready for drinking.
Perfectly balanced...the way it should be!
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10/13/2015 - gew71walsh wrote: 92 Points
Deep, purple color. Fruit forward style, as others have posited, but this works for me. In balance, with a lingering finish. Drank for a celebration-- unfortunately suffered a bit from inferior glassware. This is at a good time and may have some time left, but no need to wait.
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9/21/2015 - johnh1001 wrote: 92 Points
Great vintage. Great wine and a great value CA cab. I think this should be drunk soon.
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8/11/2015 - kreuter wrote:
Outstanding
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8/10/2015 - cgrohman wrote: 92 Points
Very nice, aged well, still wouldn't call this sucker exceptional
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7/31/2015 - facchair wrote: 91 Points
Vail 2015
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7/15/2015 - rustyRudy wrote: 90 Points
Vacuvined overnight, opened for two hours and retasted. No change over the 24 hours. I am hoping that the balance returns in time.
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7/14/2015 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 90 Points
Dark garnet. Black fruit and mineral nose. Awkward phase? Good fruit, but heavy on the oak and vanilla but light on the acidity. Tannins still there at the end and the four previous bottles, about one per year, have shown better balance. Will visit this bottle again tomorrow.
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7/12/2015 - PetePullen Likes this wine: 91 Points
Same as 2012 note, that is, the vanilla/candy flavors have lessened, with smooth berry and mocha flavors and aromas. No decanting, and there was a very small amount of sediment at end. Drinking very nicely. Everyone enjoyed with Italian food -- pastas, salmon and scampi.
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6/28/2015 - timbobwhite Likes this wine: 93 Points
Deep red/purple to edge. Initial nose of cassis and black fruit with a touch of red fruit. Rich, balanced with notable tannins. Good flavors of cassis and Rutherford Fruit. Med-long lingering finish. Very good example of a Rutherford Cab. Reminded me of the old BV Rutherford Cabs. 93+ after 4 hours in the decanter. Took that long to reach its full expression. Will last for many more years.
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6/7/2015 - LCHammer Likes this wine: 94 Points
Great nose and dark fruit up front. Turns spicey mid pallete into a dark fruit/cocoa finish which seemed to last forever. Got even better after an hour in air so this has a long life ahead. Wish I had more.
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5/29/2015 - danielbleier Likes this wine: 93 Points
consistent with notes of 6/22/2014 - still feels young
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5/27/2015 - steinbrl12 Likes this wine: 93 Points
full and deep dark lush fruit. Delicious on day 2 and 3
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5/17/2015 - awineo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Caymus is always consistent.... except the 2012... Great bottle and drinking well right now.
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5/12/2015 - napasoutherner Likes this wine: 92 Points
A heavy, brooding wine with a little too much acidic nature on the top. Started out like a typical Napa Cab with big red fruit but mellowed into a nice semi-strong cabernet. Again, too acidic but nice medium finish
The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is light sediment in the bottle. It smells like cranberry. It tastes like strawberry, blackberry, fig and violet. The body is medium. The wine has bright texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has high acidity.
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5/10/2015 - jaumealaska Likes this wine: 96 Points
I have liked this wine from the beginning and it is truly in a very good drinking window that should last for years still. Nose was aromatic with red fruit, spice box, very perfumed. The fruit was still pronounced in the body with round tannins and balanced acid. Great long finish. Should have decanted as it is unfiltered and even with standing the bottle for the day, the bottom pour was cloudy. 1 left and should give it a few years just to pace my enjoyment.
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5/8/2015 - cos82 Likes this wine: 93 Points
My kind of wine with loads of fruit. Purple in color. Cherry, minerals and blackberry on the nose. Shines on the palate. No tannin. Sweet cherry, plum, cassis, blackberry, minerals and a hint of licorice on a refined and balanced palate. What you look for in a CA cab. Very good now, but could get better, even though drinking beautifully
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5/8/2015 - Kdad Likes this wine: 92 Points
Caymus. Excellent cab. Excellent year. Never disappoints.
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4/11/2015 - Delli Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drinking exceptionally well right now. Purple and opaque with a chocolate nose and vanilla notes. Rich fruit palate, very round and velvety mouth feel. Dark fruit lingers on the finish. 5+13+17+8=93
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3/27/2015 - team-blackburn wrote: 91 Points
It was not the fruit bomb I expected. I expected more from such a well known brand. Tasted sided by side a Force Majure Cab that blew the doors off the Caymus.
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3/8/2015 - Rktekt3 wrote: 94 Points
Great
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2/16/2015 - wss Likes this wine: 93 Points
Cheap, no; over valued, most certainly - but wines like this are the foundation of Napa. Imo this wine is in its prime. Deep purple in color, raspberry, leather, apricot to the nose. Medium jammy taste that lingers. Well balanced wine that begs to be consumed with prime rib or tomahawk steak.
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2/6/2015 - Gangsta JP Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drank beautifully with sashimi and my cousin Benny .
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2/5/2015 - dstraub wrote: 84 Points
Syrup at its best.
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1/31/2015 - pdadams66 Likes this wine: 88 Points
Very much in the thick, sweet mold (almost like Port). Good for what it is, but not a real favourite. There is much better Cab from Napa (Mountain fruit) for the price.
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1/25/2015 - pdadams66 Likes this wine: 90 Points
Deep dark red center, red rim with some signs of age.
Smooth, stewed plums, black olives, roasted nuts, some leanness and cocoa.
Quite sweet up front, rush of alcohol, very ripe (a little cooked almost), black cherries (like yoghurt), caramel, kirsch, fairly good length of ripe fruit.
Very good for what it is. Not like the Caymus of 15 years ago, but still impressive in its own way.
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1/5/2015 - bryon m wrote: 90 Points
Caymus 2007 Napa and Back us 2005 with Christmas Dinner. Both are holding up well - good body, clarity and color. We drank the Caymus first which was dry with light fruit from start to finish. The backus was a little more round and had a deeper dark fruit content. Both very enjoyable.
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1/4/2015 - mdfuller Likes this wine: 92 Points
this is napa valley cab at its finest ... a pure valley floor character in its best form from '07. this was my first tasting of the vintage, and was rewarded accordingly. this is a wine to enjoy and has legs for more time in bottle
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1/1/2015 - jaumealaska wrote: 93 Points
Drank with 5 other 2006 and 2007 Napa wines. this was drinking very well with berry and spice notes tot he nose, full plush red and dark fruit with enough acid and softer tannins for structure and a long finish. the favorite of the night again Silver Oak, Hall, Clos du Val, and Ladera.
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12/24/2014 - tantotinto wrote: 92 Points
Christmas Eve wine three out of the last four years and a hit again this evening. Matched with rack of lamb. Perhaps softening a bit with time but still very full. Sweet black cherry and oak.
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12/20/2014 - JS199 wrote: 93 Points
Ultra rich and decadent, more so than previous vintages, like cabernet dessert. An unbelievable nose of vanilla and oak. I really enjoyed 2 glasses of this and then it was a little much. It came across as fairly young, so lots of time left.
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12/7/2014 - Napacablover Likes this wine: 92 Points
Fruit forward and juicy
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12/6/2014 - timbobwhite Likes this wine: 90 Points
Black center to deep purple edge. On PNP this had an unpleasant vegetable note. Needed nearly 1-1/2 hours to blow off. Once that passed there was a bit of perfume with a nice nose of Rutherford Cab fruit. This showed as a classy Rutherford Cab. I will decant the next bottle and let it air out for 2 hours or more. Keep another year or two at least. Not sure this is worth the price but a good wine in the end.
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11/29/2014 - Rita Huckle wrote:
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11/8/2014 - beekeeper wrote: 91 Points
Silky berry milkshake of a wine. Delicious for what it is but a bit over the top and simple to my taste.
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10/25/2014 - Double D wrote: 94 Points
very sweet juice, fruity, smooth viscous ...maybe not exactly my style but delicious none the less
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10/19/2014 - LantzSharpe wrote: 99 Points
12th Anniversary
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10/16/2014 - awineo Likes this wine: 95 Points
This is the second one this month. The last one was at a perfect place, so I opened another one and vola... it was also. Get stuff.
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10/11/2014 - awineo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Great bottle. They are drinking GREAT right now. In fact I still have 7 left so I am going to open another one tonight.
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10/6/2014 - ifishtoo wrote: 94 Points
In a perfect spot right now. Focused Cali cab. Sorry it was the only one we had.
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9/25/2014 - King JR wrote: 93 Points
Fabulous.
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8/29/2014 - dstraub wrote: 85 Points
I'm guessing that Caymus is a big fan of Mega Purple -- which would explain the color and the sweetness of this wine. It definitely doesn't taste like a cab.
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8/29/2014 - neilemc Likes this wine: 89 Points
Dark beet red color. Bush berry scents, with secondary cigar box and licorice. A bit bizarre at first but air settles it down, still hot and sweet with crème de cassis and dark berry preserves. Tastes like a fortified wine -- high alcohol and enormous amounts of sugar. Not sure what to make of this syrupy confection: it's has loads of fruit but was it made as a dessert wine?
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8/24/2014 - djdaqm Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very dark in color. Nose has blueberry with a hint of cigar and beef. On the palate there is tons of concentration, yet it does not seem over-extracted or overly alcoholic. Nice acidity. Starting to develop some secondary flavors, and ends with a nice touch of bitter. Not fantastically long, but it's such a delicious wine, which is nicely balanced. You can see the development as this wine has aged, going from a luscious and creamy fruit compote in the early years to something more hearty and earthy that offers a different take on each sip. Hard not to enjoy.
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8/24/2014 - The Wine Sherpa Likes this wine: 92 Points
Still great. The wine was dark rd with little meniscus. Shows potential to continue to age and improve.
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8/8/2014 - brianofthevine wrote: 89 Points
Interesting, very ripe and almost Zin-like. Overdone in my opinion. Needs time to blow off.
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7/27/2014 - LFCHALA wrote: 88 Points
Prototype of the modern wine to get high scores. Not undrinkable, but it is one-dimensional, boring. This kind of wine does not improve with aging. My preliminary assessment is overrated.
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7/22/2014 - andrewdodd86 wrote: 92 Points
Nice, red fruit, vanilla. Classic Caymus. Tannins have mellowed.
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7/17/2014 - rustyRudy Likes this wine: 93 Points
Purple. Consumed at busy pre family wedding get together, so no serious tasting notes.
Consistent with previous bottles. Predictable and steady, always a crowd pleaser.
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6/22/2014 - danielbleier Likes this wine: 93 Points
Basically consistent with notes of 8/25/2010 - but the intervening 4 years has brought out a greater earthy and tobacco quality to balance the lively plum and currant fruit flavors. Drink now - 2020?
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5/22/2014 - ssspore Likes this wine: 91 Points
This is a very good wine. Nose of tobacco, chocolate, hint of floral. Taste of black berry. Tannins nice with good finish. Needed some time in the glass. Got better with time.
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5/22/2014 - Uncle John wrote: 90 Points
Nice wine that went well with BBQ steak. A bit to sweet on the finish for my taste.
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5/1/2014 - Wamrod wrote: 93 Points
What a fantastic "entry level" wine from Caymus
Midnight core, deep dark purple, with the slimmest of meniscus, just barely allowing a hint of purple red at the edge
Nose is rich and clean, yet savory. Blackberry, blackcurrants, pipe tobacco, vanilla and soy
Palate is wonderful, just as savory, with meat, soy sauce, umami, all carried on cool blue fruit - a huge vanilla appears midway, and carries all the way through the long finish..
Super fine tannins melt in your mouth and are almost indiscernible.
I can't believe I didn't buy more of these - down to only two bottles, which I am determined to save for many more years
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4/28/2014 - jaxpaj wrote: 90 Points
Past its prime. Has developed a port like quality.
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4/27/2014 - Kevdog Likes this wine: 90 Points
Amazing how smooth the tannins are... No reason to hold this, it is ready to drink. Nice fruit, great nose, very napa fruit forward cab. Good with steak, even better with dark chocolate.
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4/21/2014 - Wine Poor Likes this wine: 93 Points
This took about an hour to really open up and then I got an interesting licorice note on the nose. There was same great flavours as last time with plum and cassis. Really happy to share this with friends and good grilled beef. Really sad this is my last 2007. Oh well, they keep making good vintages don't they!
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3/31/2014 - meatbomb013 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Still going strong. Outstanding as always.
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3/31/2014 - SC OLY Likes this wine: 93 Points
Since my last bottle, this has developed a tobacco flavor I didn't remember before. Excellent Cab. Good nose with some fruit, really nice finish.
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3/18/2014 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Gotta give them credit, they are consistent. Tannins have started to fade a little. Nice red fruit. Classic Caymus.
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3/13/2014 - EvanRose Likes this wine: 98 Points
perfectly smooth, sweet black cherry on the front and long, lush finish
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3/7/2014 - jkscully Likes this wine:
This was delicious. Black fruits, candied fruits, nutmeg/cinnamon, smoky camp fire, and as it sat, chocolate and coffee. Silky, rich texture. Vanilla oak, but well integrated. Every sip was enjoyable.
I decanted for an hour, but this drank well right from the start. I thought this was drinking very well right now, but a few extra years in the cellar are not going to hurt.
On day two (which was actually day three), this wine was still delicious, but different. The texture was silkier, but the alcohol was also a bit more noticeable. Very strong licorice, but I can also sense some of the characteristics that others have noted, such as leather, chocolate, and smoked poblano or paprika.
I don’t think I have ever been so sad to see the bottom of a bottle.
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3/2/2014 - yeti575rider wrote: 91 Points
I think these must mellow with time because I don't get anything close to the over the top fruit bomb that these somehow are made out to me. Nose also not as candied as I've noticed before when very young. Still nice dark cab with a lot of chocolate notes. Fruit strong but balanced imho with a decent length finish. Overall it was very good but not quite up to the next level where it totally captures my attention.
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3/2/2014 - Napacablover Likes this wine: 92 Points
Consistently good bottle of wine
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2/14/2014 - webbaker Likes this wine: 95 Points
Multiple tastings with consistent notes. Give these fruit bomb Caymus wines a chance to age in the cellar and they are quite good. The cellar time allows the fruit jammy-ness to recede just enough and create a much more balanced wine, but still with very strong fruit flavors. A great wine from a great vintage. I'm going to really enjoy my last few bottles. Where's my 07 Special Selection? :-D
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2/10/2014 - robertdtwo wrote: 93 Points
Repeat of previous TN: One hour decant. Beautiful dark violet color. Wonderful bouquet of dark candied fruit, sweet berries and spice, with notes of wet leather, tobacco and mild forest floor. Subsequent vintages have hit me as a bit too sweet, but this 07 is singing beautifully!
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1/19/2014 - toddmk Likes this wine: 92 Points
PnP. Drank remainder of bottle after using the coravin a couple of times over the past three weeks. Tasted the same as previous tastings out of this bottle. Excellent concentration of sweet, dark fruit with the acidity and tannins to balance the wine. This is a fruit-forward, in your face Napa cab. Not for everyone but definitely a well-made wine for what it is. Has several years of life left but I don't see this getting any better by letting it age.
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1/8/2014 - robertdtwo wrote: 93 Points
One hour decant. Beautiful dark violet color. Wonderful bouquet of dark candied fruit, sweet berries and spice, with notes of wet leather, tobacco and mild forest floor. Subsequent vintages have hit me as a bit too sweet, but this 07 is singing beautifully!
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1/4/2014 - prasm Likes this wine: 91 Points
Consumed over 2 days, note from day 2. Nose: Expressive scents of candied dark fruit - grape jolly rancher, tobacco, leather and a hint of peppermint. Palate: Full bodied, spicy dark fruit attack, with gritty tannin, earth and leather. Finish: Lengthy sense of sweet dark fruit and earthiness.
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12/28/2013 - Napacablover Likes this wine: 93 Points
Back on track with this bottle of 2007 Caymus! Great nose!
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12/24/2013 - Arch57 Likes this wine: 92 Points
We did a pop n pour of this with guests for Christmas Eve and it delivered. Lots of ripe fruit and cocoa on the nose and palate. Some, including me, may knock this style but for a table of thirsty guests this will impress.
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12/22/2013 - The Wine Sherpa Likes this wine: 93 Points
Wine is drinking wonderfully now, but can still age and imrpove a little
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12/15/2013 - Napacablover wrote: 92 Points
Nice bottle
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12/13/2013 - GTFreek wrote:
Another Caymus that didn't impress me. Juicy style, black fruit layers up front, feminine cab, tasty but lacking structure on the back end. Tasted side by side with an '06 Far Niente that blew it away.
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11/27/2013 - johnh1001 wrote: 92 Points
Fantastic value. Great plush texture, ripe forward red and black fruit. Coffee and caramel. Lots of oak. Nicely round on the finish.
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11/27/2013 - maxima wrote: 87 Points
En carafe pour 4 heures!
Gros vin avec beaucoup de matière!
Nez sur le bois et le fruit mur...on semble avoir poussé un peu l'extraction!
En bouche, c'est encore massif et boisé. 10 ans lui fera du bien pour s'arrondir.
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11/16/2013 - Napacablover wrote: 90 Points
Disappointing - not a typical Caymus
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11/11/2013 - TheWineDon wrote: 90 Points
A rather disappointing showing
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11/2/2013 - WineGuyFL Likes this wine: 94 Points
Third of 6 bottles. Every one of them have been among the best Caymus I have ever had. Classic Caymus style. Opened at a restaurant for most of an hour.....no decant. Was very good after just being open for a while. Others say this one benefits from a lot of decanting.....need to try that, but cannot understand how it could be better than we had last night.
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10/27/2013 - iamandyc wrote: 90 Points
Still drinking like its very young. Strong fruit with strong spices and waves of oak. It all blends together for a hedonistic treat but it borders on over the top and being more like a shiraz vs a cab.
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10/25/2013 - djdaqm Likes this wine: 93 Points
Interesting nose that took some time to open up. I've had this wine in the past, and was impressed with the intense blueberry compote smells. It had less of that now at first, but opened up as the night went on. Five hours of decanting later, it was more open. This is a fairly big and juicy wine, but it's balanced well with acidity. Not over-ripe or flabby, but very fruit forward and easy on the oak. Has a lot of room to age still, and the secondary smells and flavors haven't really developed yet.
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10/11/2013 - Napacablover Likes this wine: 92 Points
A good bottle, though not as awesome as most bottles of Caymus
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10/8/2013 - cliffkol wrote: 92 Points
Jerome and family from France - our house (Miami, Fl.): WOTN
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10/2/2013 - dstraub wrote: 88 Points
Much better than my last several...wasn't completely sweet syrup.
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9/15/2013 - iamandyc wrote: 91 Points
Massive, oaky wine without decanting. Might have improved with air. CHocolate, black tea and charred fruit on the palate. Nose had cedar and alcohol. Tannins were there to back the fruit but not much acidity. Layered but in your face.
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9/15/2013 - Topper wrote: 92 Points
Primary impression was of sweet red fruit, well made wine, tasty and easy to drink, especially on day 2 after the remaining tannins had settled down. Should continue to drink well over the next few years and may even improve.
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9/9/2013 - gesusser wrote: 94 Points
Hour decant first nite and another hour 2 nd nite allowed this great tasting cab to open.. No need to rush to drink as it is this full bodied cab is just hitting it's peak
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8/31/2013 - markrucks Likes this wine: 93 Points
fantastic bottle of wine!
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8/30/2013 - mas66 wrote: 90 Points
Tunge gardiner, sød, meget krydret duft, bred og kraftig smag, ok tanniner. Rimelig harmonisk, men mere kraftig end elegant og domineret af sødme og krydret duft og smag.
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8/28/2013 - pdemaio Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very typical Caymus. cotton candy, spice and sweets. Red fruit. Broad on the palate. Sensation of sweetness. Lovely and easy to drink, but full bodied. Long finish. Med acid.
PDQ93+
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8/25/2013 - Sir Lloyd wrote: 90 Points
Drinking with Caprese Salad, cheese and crackers.
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8/25/2013 - WDSteers wrote: 88 Points
Light, fruit forward lacking body, blackberry and fig on palate with short finish
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8/19/2013 - krhaugh Likes this wine: 99 Points
This might not be a huge Cab but I haven't tasted a better Cab, ever. This is like being a kid in the 70's and going to A&W Root Beer and having an ice cold A&W RB float. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!
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8/18/2013 - dougwine wrote:
Fruity-tootie, oaky yokie. Not too sure what people see in this. Not impressed at all. A decent quaf, but not much else except the sweet syrupy fruit.
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8/17/2013 - DNAWineGuy wrote: 93 Points
Dark fruit with leather and cigar box secondary notes. Powerful wine. Minimal tannins. Medium finish. Drink thru 2018.
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8/9/2013 - Marc S wrote: 92 Points
- Garnet color with slow forming legs. It's balanced and has flavours of blackberry and strawberry with a full body. Silky texture with a long finish - Always a great bottle of Cab. Can't go wrong with this wine if you like big bold oak flavored wine.
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8/3/2013 - bonedoc wrote: 92 Points
Sweet, concentrated and silky fruit. Low acid and low structure. Typical Caymus style. Easy to drink, but nothing complex or age worthy.
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7/30/2013 - BGK810 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Drinking beautifully. Silky smooth. Not the big, brawny wine it was when first released. The oak has integrated very well, black currant and black cherry flavors and a medium length finish.
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7/28/2013 - Wine Poor Likes this wine: 92 Points
The wine looks Purple colored. The legs are Medium. It smells like Gooseberry, and Black currant (cassis). It tastes like Black currant (cassis), and Plum. The body is Full. The wine has Smooth texture. The wine finishes Long. Had with grilled strip loins. Great stuff as usual.
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7/27/2013 - 2Travel Likes this wine: 93 Points
Maybe the best of the bottles of '07 that we have had. It really sang with classic Caymus cassis flavor, smooth mouthfeel, and very nice length. Lovely with grilled dinner. It followed a Tuscan blend and was a brilliant contrast.
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7/19/2013 - meatbomb013 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Great as always.
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7/14/2013 - gew71walsh wrote: 93 Points
wonderful wine/ had with ribeye steak and was a great pairing. not sure why some have had an issue. Would like to know what $20 bottle can compare.
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7/11/2013 - bugdoced wrote: 87 Points
a little hot;a little thin;a little bit bitter at the end with some minerals too; was expecting more
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7/5/2013 - LFCHALA wrote: 91 Points
Balance. Rounded. Lots of fruit on the nose and palate. Young.
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6/27/2013 - Rktekt3 wrote: 92 Points
Just darn good.
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6/20/2013 - JJB1 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Great non reserve Caymus!!
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6/16/2013 - ADiamond Likes this wine: 93 Points
Stunning wine. Smooth, tannins well integrated. Fruit, berries and some plum and pepper on the palate. Deep ruby color. Long finish.
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6/16/2013 - EvanJB wrote:
Drank bottle friend bought same time as my purchase. We were both a bit disappointed. Needs steak, not much by itself
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6/15/2013 - Ronfeldman wrote: 92 Points
Still in its prime!
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6/9/2013 - ocfriday Likes this wine: 88 Points
Nice wine, extremely jammy and this is from someone who drinks a lot of Turley.
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6/2/2013 - Decanthor Likes this wine: 92 Points
Delicious (as expected) and ready to drink now. Good on open, much better after 1 hour decant. Not as overtly rich and sweet as young Caymus. Elegant nose of currants, with mixed berries and chocolate on the palate. Finish lasts 20-30 seconds. Paired well with our filet mignon.
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5/29/2013 - alfazed wrote: 92 Points
Smooth and velvety,texture was almost more apparent than aroma or or taste at first. Warm smooth fruit, no tannins,gentle. After
3 hours in decanter, chocolate was most obvious over the fruit, overlaid with maybe sour cherries,others said lemon? Delicious. Glad we opened it now.
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5/21/2013 - team-blackburn wrote: 90 Points
Not the fruit bomb others are describing, didn't live up to my expectations. I've had better @ he $35 price point(Secolo). It did improve a point or 2 on day 3.
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5/13/2013 - Rktekt3 wrote: 93 Points
Hawaiian punch is sometimes my favy flav. Yum yums
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5/3/2013 - jfont123 wrote: 92 Points
Decanted 30 min. Popped this for my wife's birthday yesterday. Very enjoyable new world cab. At its peak. You all should start popping these babies...
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4/28/2013 - wineshaman wrote: 90 Points
Decanted and brought to room temp. Nice rich floral nose, currants, dark plum, cinnamon/clove. Yes there are candied notes, but the sweetness is in check. Paired with a tomahawk ribeye!
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4/21/2013 - Delli Likes this wine: 93 Points
Purple and opaque. Consentrated fruit, smooth and eligent tannins with a long finish. The bet caymus cab I've had. 5+13+17+8=93
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4/21/2013 - ghobby wrote: 93 Points
- It's balanced with a full body. Satin-Like texture with a long finish - Excellent wine, dark red color, fruit forward, not too tannic, long finish
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4/20/2013 - TexasBob wrote: 89 Points
Color not readily apparent in the lighting. Hershey's milk chocolate and cocoa with underlying purple fruit on the nose. This wine is a highly extracted fruit bomb with strong tannins. My sense is that it tries to be all things to all people and as such is overly ambitious. Nice vanilla and black fruits, but not to my taste. With Jody and Stella at the Opera Ball.
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4/13/2013 - winosis3 wrote: 91 Points
Delicious, tasted after an 06 Caymus Cab. Was a bit earthier than the 06; not quite as smooth. Nice deep color.
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4/1/2013 - Hodby wrote: 87 Points
Dark red-violet. Aroma dominated by wood, notes of coconut, dark roast coffee, vanilla, with some very ripe mixed dark fruits. It's an uncomplicated nose in an easy to understand early drinking style. On entry, low energy and supple. The wine develops quickly, gives heaps of fruit and wood spices. Finishes flatter than expected, with a little bitter char. Seems to be stuck in a dull drinking period. Bottle #2 of four.
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3/30/2013 - go blue wine wrote: 95 Points
Berries up front with a smooth vanilla taste. Last bottle of this vintage in my cellar--will miss you friend!
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3/30/2013 - Double D wrote: 94 Points
Drinking very nicely right now, well balanced, a big Napa cab with heady nose and bold dark fruit flavors, a bit on the sweet side but none the less very enjoyable.
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3/25/2013 - Chriskrueger wrote: 94 Points
So consistent
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3/8/2013 - jbouchy wrote: 89 Points
Beautiful Caymus nose. Inky, dark red. Wine has lovely complexities in the mid palate with a solid finish. Highly extracted that has created an imbalance of high alcohol resulting in a cloying effect on the palate. Nice wine that hopefully mellows with more time in the cellar. Has the potential to have a much higher score.
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3/7/2013 - Wamrod wrote: 93 Points
Dense dark purple
Great nose, blackberry, blackcurrant, vanilla, spices
Palate leans more toward plummy blueberry, medium low acidity
Coming together nicely
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3/4/2013 - Wine Poor Likes this wine: 93 Points
This was inky black in colour. More going on than with the 2008 we had recently. Still a little sweet, but a big wine too. We all enjoyed this one with our rib-eyes.
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2/28/2013 - SC OLY Likes this wine: 93 Points
I thought the 2004 would be hard to beat, but I think this has that wonderful Caymus finish with great berry flavors. A real winner.
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2/27/2013 - Schiffy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Wow...this wine continues to improve with age. Concentrated dark blackberry fruit with silky smooth tannins and a finish that just won't stop. Strong hints of cassis and milk chocolate that seamlessly integrate with the fruit. Loving this wine and wish I had more.
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2/17/2013 - awineo Likes this wine: 93 Points
Always consistent and similar year to year.
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2/13/2013 - pdemaio Likes this wine: 93 Points
Delicious. Very typical of the Caymus style and an excellent vintage. PDQ93+
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2/11/2013 - sjdcellar wrote: 94 Points
this was very good - not much time to mellow and had that deep and rich Caymus signature finish and up front but silky tannins
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1/29/2013 - Martin Redmond Likes this wine: 92 Points
Inky violet color with black currant, tobacco, blackberry, mint and a bit of violet aromas. On the palate, it's medium-full bodied, focused and deftly balanced with blackcurrant, blackberry, and a hint of bittersweet chocolate flavors wrapped in sweet fine grained tannins. Long finish. 15% abv
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1/29/2013 - magic2coop Likes this wine:
Decent. Balanced and refined. Opened up quickly and stayed consistent.
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1/29/2013 - carstenf wrote: 92 Points
We loved it.
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1/23/2013 - 2Travel Likes this wine: 92 Points
Three bottles consumed over a couple months, scores from 91 to 93. Typical Caymus, meaning that it is very good :-). I like to drink these after dinner in order to enjoy the depth of flavor, but I'm sure that they are great with steak as well.
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1/7/2013 - domco wrote: 88 Points
Disappointing vs what I was looking for tonight. I wanted that fruit forward Caymus style, but the alcohol is throwing this out of balance. 15%, half a turn higher than the '09 we drank recently. Prefer the '09 for sure.
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1/1/2013 - europat55 wrote: 91 Points
Excellent fruit forward California Cab (if you like the style), but agreed with others that it is possible to get similar for half the price. Nose is a little bit hot this time around...
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12/31/2012 - daniel.jay wrote: 87 Points
Decanted on NYE for an hour, re-bottled and took to dinner. Obviously had high expectations but was left disappointed. Wine is dark and viscous with good fruit, but the finish is cloyingly sweet and lacking any acidic balance. Didn't stop it from being a fan favorite at dinner.
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12/29/2012 - SpoochMan wrote: 87 Points
I'm usually a huge Caymus fan but this bottle really disappointed. Based on others' comments here I tried to pop and pour this and it was awful initially--hot and disjointed. So I decanted for a couple of hours and cooled down to around 60 deg. It was definitely better as time went on. There was good concentration of fruit, but it was rather primary and I didn't get the secondary notes that others have mentioned including the usual chocolate notes. I could get cabs as good as this bottle for $25 no problem. I will hold my other bottle of the '07 and hope it gets better (or that this was a subpar bottle). If they are all like this, then I think this is very overrated.
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12/26/2012 - bmarshall wrote: 90 Points
A real crowd pleaser for sure... opened on Christmas eve eve with a bunch of folks. They all loved it. For me, not quite so much. A well made wine for sure, but a little sweet for my taste.
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12/22/2012 - webbaker Likes this wine: 94 Points
6th tasting with consistent notes. Typical Caymus fruit bomb, but I have to say that with some age, the fruit starts to relax a bit and reveal more balance and complexity. Still a fruit dominated wine. Drinking wonderfully, good aromatics, touch of tar perhaps. No sign of burning out. One of my favorites in an excellent vintage.
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12/16/2012 - Rktekt3 wrote: 92 Points
I still say this is Hawaiin punch for adults. And that is a good thing.
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12/10/2012 - John McCabe wrote: 93 Points
Am always surprised why Caymus doesn't get rated higher. Deep, penetrating backbone of fruit; dry, toasted, dark and rich, silky texture. Pretty classy and decadent.Some obvious vanilla tones hold it back a bit It's so much better than the last one I had, am guessing it just needed more time.
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12/8/2012 - tantotinto wrote: 90 Points
Second bottle of this wine that I have opened in a week. More oak and vanilla and less fruit this time around. I had not really thought of bottle variation so much in the case of Caymus but it is there.
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12/8/2012 - sumshark wrote: 89 Points
Good, but far from a typical Cab profile.
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12/2/2012 - Rktekt3 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Hawaiian punch for adults. Excellent Cabernet.
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11/29/2012 - tantotinto wrote: 91 Points
My wife and I both enjoy this wine although it is probably more her style than mine. The score is an average from both of us. As with our last bottle, I find it "like sharing the evening with a beautiful woman of limited conversational ability". That refererence is to the wine.
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11/27/2012 - vinodolphin Likes this wine: 94 Points
I have been looking forward to this bottle reaching the top of my list. No disappointment. The wine looks Violet colored. The legs are Slow. It smells like and Black currant (cassis). It tastes like and Black currant (cassis). The body is Medium/Full. The wine has Smooth texture. The wine finishes Long.
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11/25/2012 - RoryMcI Likes this wine: 91 Points
A big napa red. Could have rested for longer.
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11/25/2012 - mpricher wrote: 93 Points
This bottle has really come into is sweetspot (IMHO). It's such a stunner, in both appearenc, nose, and frontal attack with Chocolate covered cherry, and baking spice notes. I understand that this is a cuvee, and not a full expression of a single vineyard cult Cabernet, but you can't beat this bottling for sheer fun and elagance. It's both a great sipper, and a wonderful pairing with some many foods. You just can't say that about so many Calif Cab's that have more oak. Well done Wagner family, and this is why I don't hesitate to keep these bottles in my cellar.
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11/20/2012 - vinomex wrote: 94 Points
A real crowd pleaser, drinking beautifully, may have some room to improve with time in the cellar but I believe this is meant to be dranked about now. Lively fruit a hint of oak and tobacco, predominantly fruit, perhaps a tad sweet. Silky smooth and full lush body. Noticeable absence of minerality or earthiness, and seems to lack the structure for the long haul - the more the reason to drink now.
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11/5/2012 - The Wine Sherpa wrote: 93 Points
This is a heck of a good bootle of wine. Great fruit on nose and attack, hint of caramel on the mid-palate. Good balance with tannin. Real smooth with plenty of red fruit, but also vanilla and caramel. I dont think it will peak more than one or 2 more years from now (if it isnt already at its best) so drink up now.
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10/26/2012 - Dangelmaier wrote: 92 Points
Sold wine as expected
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10/15/2012 - dougwine wrote:
Good wine once the fruity tooty effect wore off. These things almost taste carbonic when they are young and just opened.
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10/12/2012 - ADiamond wrote: 93 Points
Stunning wine. Smooth, tannins well integrated. Fruit and pepper on the palate deep ruby color. John said it was the best part of the meal, and we had a great meal.
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10/4/2012 - Bumbanian wrote: 91 Points
Very nice with strawberry and cassis, licorice, creosote. Full, smooth mouthfeel. Took an hour or so to open.
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9/30/2012 - Marc S wrote:
- Garnet color with medium forming legs. It's balanced and has flavours of blackberry, black currant and strawberry with a medium body. Round texture - See Aug 12th notes.
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9/27/2012 - rhanke wrote: 93 Points
full body cab. nice aroma
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9/23/2012 - shellylowen wrote: 93 Points
Thick, rich, dark fruits, great nose, and persistent finish. So rich that the bottle lasted way past dinner.
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9/21/2012 - sasvino wrote: 94 Points
Well its certainly right up my alley if you like full bodied fruit forward cabs, Very intense flavors, darker fruit on the front with heavy sweetness in the midpalate, strong vanillin and milk chocolate but balanced and not overwhelming in my opinion, I think has the structure to further improve for one or two more year but sense its one to be drank sooner than later. Mid 90s. -S
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9/12/2012 - gesusser wrote: 93 Points
after 2 hour decant = lush full cab; at $50 a great QPR
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9/12/2012 - NH WINO wrote: 95 Points
Previous notes apply. Sad to see the last of this go.... This wine works very will for me and would consider buying other vintages.
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9/2/2012 - awise45 wrote: 93 Points
Lush and full, wonderful finish.
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8/20/2012 - wineotim wrote: 93 Points
C'mon, we all know what this tastes like, vintage after vintage. I make no apologies for liking this style occaisionally. Drank with a porterhouse steak.
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8/16/2012 - europat55 wrote: 92 Points
This is definitely not your classic Cabernet Sauvignon so I can understand why some people do not like it, but I find it outstanding for what it is, i.e. a very fruity cab with a generous sweet vanilla nose and a very rich, highly concentrated palate. Ready to drink now.
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8/12/2012 - Marc S wrote: 92 Points
- Garnet color with slow forming legs. It's balanced and has flavours of raspberry, strawberry and black currant with a medium/full body. Round texture with a medium finish - Always a great bottle of wine. Hard to top.
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8/4/2012 - Double D wrote: 93 Points
Dark, sweet, rich and well balanced cab...not my favorite style but enjoyable none the less.
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8/3/2012 - dstraub wrote: 83 Points
Had some more people over to try and the same results. Those that are new to wine and generally drink sweet wines really like this. "tastes a little like syrup".....those who like really good dry Cabs from Cali, think its crap. Best to drink by itself because it will ruin most foods.
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7/22/2012 - webbaker Likes this wine: 93 Points
Tasted head to head with Caymus 06. Very soft tannins, nice fruit and touches of vanilla. Much softer than the 06. One of my favorites, drinking beautifully right now.
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7/20/2012 - Emvip wrote: 84 Points
How is this a 92+ bottle? I've had this bottle 3-4 times and it is so over extracted and sweetened it's ridiculous. It literally tastes like the winemaker poured sweetener in it. I just don't get all the hype. There are hundreds of bottles that are way better than this for far less than the $65 this retails for.
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7/13/2012 - cgoeson wrote: 93 Points
Perfect timing! Little tight at open but after 10 mins it was awesome!
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7/13/2012 - wallstreet wrote:
After some decant time, it started to open up. Not one of the more opulent Caymus vintages, but it is rather tasty. I would give it a few more years to show itself better.
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7/8/2012 - Mark Brandon wrote: 94 Points
Decanted for 2 hrs... brilliant. Blackberry puree, Coffee undertones, big but complex and elegant. Wonderful with gorgonzola topped dry-aged steak.
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7/3/2012 - 88rebel wrote: 94 Points
Vary complex and smooth. Big fruit.
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6/21/2012 - marc2828 wrote: 92 Points
great as usual
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6/9/2012 - nickyboy79 wrote: 91 Points
Very enjoyable!!
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6/9/2012 - Jmartin wrote:
Good, but we drank it too fast. Needs a few hours to open up. Really improved as we drank it.
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6/2/2012 - webbaker Likes this wine: 93 Points
Fruit bomb. Tannins starting to integrate nicely. Drinking very well right now, but should last another couple of years. Classic Caymus in an outstanding vintage.
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5/20/2012 - webbaker Likes this wine: 93 Points
Typical Caymus fruit bomb, plums, vanilla. Aging well.
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5/17/2012 - CornDoggyDogg wrote: 93 Points
Simply outstanding once again from Caymus. Silky, elegant, well-balanced.
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5/11/2012 - phokel wrote:
Had to go to the vineyard after having a glass
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5/10/2012 - Cyleb wrote: 98 Points
One of my favorite bottles and thier BEST year I've ever tasted. Spoiler alert the 2010 is almost as good
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4/22/2012 - knlowery wrote: 95 Points
Always delicious. Classic Caymus Cab...bottle never lasts the whole evening.
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4/8/2012 - km5 wrote:
couldn't taste much from grill smoke
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4/8/2012 - 2Travel wrote: 91 Points
as good as ever
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3/25/2012 - brianngibson wrote: 91 Points
A little bit of an herbal streak on this one.
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3/21/2012 - Dasher wrote: 93 Points
pop and pour! Great juice and you will enjoy every bit of it.
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3/17/2012 - PetePullen Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very smooth. Less candy/vanilla than the 2008, but still a sweet berry and cocoa note. Very nice with Vietnamese/French dinner.
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3/6/2012 - Joelene wrote: 92 Points
Not a thinkers wine, just delicious caramel vanilla and pie crust goodness, its almost too sweet, with a buttery mouthfeel,and low acidity. Friends of mine who are new wine drinkers almost crapped their pants they thought this was so good, and while I too can appreciate the quality fruit here, its a little boring and over done. Delicious treat for a blue moon, but not something I could drink everyday.
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3/3/2012 - ntrubee wrote: 86 Points
i dont get the 93+ ratings for this. tried one and thought maybe it was a bad bottle. opened another. too sweet for me. definitely oaky. vanilla is over powering. have one more left i will try in a few years.
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2/25/2012 - VinoBobo wrote: 95 Points
Excellent
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2/18/2012 - Tarrant wrote: 88 Points
We personally struggle with Caymus Cabs, but we still come back year after year and at $79 we must be clearly insane, tasty for sure, but you can get the similar experience for around $20 now so why do we continue to bother? - Dark, full bodied with a nose of blackfruit, plum, cherry, cedar, mocha and extreme vanilla, not integrated as yet, with heat and oak being pervasive, quite port-like, fruit forward, smooth on the palate with decent length, tasted good for sure (88 Points).
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2/15/2012 - CTmark wrote: 94 Points
Blueberry, chocolate, vanilla milkshake.
Very smooth.
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2/14/2012 - Bwallace wrote: 94 Points
Probably the best bottle in my cellar. Best out of a very impressive lineup of CA cabs (Stags Leap, Chimney Rock, 02 Beringer, etc).
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2/11/2012 - Hoze Likes this wine: 94 Points
Still my favorite wine. In a 12 person six wine blind tasting, this wine was the clear favorite. Exceptional color, nose, and finish with a wonderful taste of berrries and vanilla. Ended up drinking two aditional bottles with some steak and scallops.
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2/11/2012 - wineshaman wrote:
Decanted and tasted, first of 5 bottles, this one was unimpressive, huge amounts of vanilla, alcohol, tannins and a bitterness that made this almost unpalatable. We did finish the bottle, but was glad it was gone. I don't believe this was flawed, maybe an off bottle or just caught this at a bad time, will reserve judgement for the next bottle!!
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2/6/2012 - GwenP wrote: 94 Points
4th bottle. This is a delicious wine, but may not be for everyone. It definitely is on the sweeter side, and there is a vanilla and oak nose and raisony component that apparently has turned off a few here. I love it, because it's unlike any of the 15 other cabs in my cellar and just plain tastes good to my palate. Just bought another case. Yum yum.
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1/30/2012 - awineo Likes this wine: 95 Points
I had two of these bottles in the last week. They are drinking great. Big fruit and tannins with a smokey tone. More like the SS than typical Caymus.
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1/30/2012 - jkazzoun wrote: 88 Points
Just can't get past the over oaked, vanilla nose. Just not my style.
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1/29/2012 - AGee wrote: 93 Points
This is a great couples wine. Rich, lush texture and a highly extracted slightly sweet taste of plum, currant, vanilla with perhaps a hint of baking spice. Dark purply color and smooth tannins. I like it better than the way over extracted Special Selection.
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1/26/2012 - slywka7 Likes this wine: 93 Points
I was pretty excited about this because I have not had a bottle of Caymus since the 2006 that we all drank over a year ago. The 2007 was a really nice wine but not up to the level of the 2006. Had some aromas of vanilla, black currant and raspberry. This had a heavy dose of oak, where the 2006 was far more balanced, but this still had a lot going on. Waves of flavors hit your palate with vanilla, tar, red and dark fruits.
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1/25/2012 - Coupe 60 wrote: 87 Points
Eagerly popped this for Mrs. Coupe's birthday. Maybe I had too high of expectations, but I was really disappointed in the bottle. I generally like the big full throttle fruit forward hedonistic reds. However the vanilla extract taste in this wine was so dominating, that I could not get past it. We much more enjoyed the 2003 Raymond St. Helena Cab that we had next.Not worth the money
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1/24/2012 - dstraub wrote: 82 Points
This is the 2nd bottle of our case, and I must admit that I may be giving these away if they don't get better. Had it with another California Cab that was clearly the most preferred of the two since it was polished off quickly and no one wanted to finish this one. This is either my second bad bottle, or a wine that has been doctored up to add sweetness since many people tend to lean more towards that.
This is a cross between a highly extracted syrah and a port. It was utterly awful with food, as the syrupy nature of the wine left everyone begging for water to clean their palate. Wasn't near as bad by itself, and one person in our group, who doesn't really care for wine except for really sweet wine, actually liked it. Perhaps all of my bottles aren't good - but I was not a fan of this. We were even discussing the theory of it being doctored up to add color and sweetness. Perhaps the most over-rated wine I've had - perhaps my next one will be wonderful.
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1/23/2012 - 11mcraig wrote: 94 Points
- Brick color with slow forming legs and aromas of chocolate, black currant and raspberry. It's in total harmony with a full body. Silky texture with a long finish - Beautiful Cab...2nd bottle and may be the best Cab I have had. The 2007 vintage does not disappoint...need to find more of this one!
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1/14/2012 - russdan60 wrote: 96 Points
Just can't get enough of this stuff. Excellent QPR and glad it is readily available. Last bottle gone.
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1/10/2012 - johnbhamrick wrote: 93 Points
This Caymus is getting better. Less tannins and good nose. Just finished the last bottle from the case. Have to find another one!!!
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1/4/2012 - JuzMaintain Likes this wine: 94 Points
Decanted for 3+ hours for a tasting at a friend's house, 3rd bottle of 6 for the night. Notes of deep tar, toasty cedar. Exceptional due to the vintage as most regular Caymus (if there is such a thing) tends toward the almost overdone Cali Cab profile. Nice, long finish... just made you want to eat the bottle. A fantastic wine.
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1/2/2012 - winejnky wrote: 95 Points
WOW! Plush, intense, balanced, fantastic Cabernet. Decanted two hours and kept getting better over the next two as it revealed layer after layer of character.
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1/1/2012 - czollinger wrote: 89 Points
Sharer than the 2005. Could use a few more years
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1/1/2012 - winosis3 wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful could drink this and never tire of it.
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1/1/2012 - Neuman wrote: 92 Points
- Garnet color.
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12/27/2011 - defnefferson wrote: 93 Points
Wow was this a big delicious wine. Didn't take any formal notes, but I remember there being some big complex fruit hemmed in by balanced oak. My first Caymus. Surely won't be my last.
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12/26/2011 - km5 wrote:
creamy sweet
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12/24/2011 - tantotinto wrote: 90 Points
Dark garnet color. Sweet, ripe fruit nose. Big, rich and luscious fruit. Dark cherry, cocoa and spice. Very little tannin, actually it could use more. This is a big, pleasant drinking wine for evening's when you do not want to think about the wine. Like sharing the evening with a beautiful woman of limited conversational ability.
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12/20/2011 - awise45 wrote: 94 Points
Really outstanding. Full and long finish, with a burst of deep fruit and a streak of vanilla.
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12/17/2011 - nittanyjack wrote:
Popped and poured at the end of the night after a lot of great wine. Either this was tight, it's just not my style, or it wasn't fair to open and judge at that point of the night.
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12/15/2011 - uncle al wrote: 94 Points
Excellent cab. Dark fruit and chocolate. Very silky and well balanced. Sit back and enjoy. Good idea to decant for a couple of hours but great out of the bottle.
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12/14/2011 - NeuroWine wrote: 94 Points
Drank with wagyu tenderloin, pasta with wild mushroom sauce, grilled baby bell peppers and eggplants. Very smooth tannins, but firm enough to handle the steak; ripe fruit, nice acidity. A delicious, beautiful cab without the usual overoaked aftertaste that plagues California cabs.
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12/13/2011 - gajalaa wrote: 93 Points
popped and poured and it was great, so smooth, purple color, nose of plum and wild berries, with great full-body in the mouth, great balance some oakiness. great tannins and a coffee flavor at the end...LOVE THIS
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12/11/2011 - rmcnees wrote: 90 Points
Medium bodied, sweet red berry and currant fruits with layers of milk chocolate, anise, oak and tar on a smooth silky lingering finish.
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12/9/2011 - RMundell Likes this wine: 91 Points
Nice wine. Needs more time.
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11/26/2011 - GwenP wrote: 94 Points
Popped and poured 1, and decanted 1. Was great right out of the bottle. Review hasn't really changed. This is becoming one of my favorites. My question how long it will age. Drinking beautifully now though.
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11/19/2011 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dynamite. Drinking great.
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11/13/2011 - johnbhamrick wrote: 92 Points
I love all Caymus. This one has good nose and taste, but it is not one of the best regular Caymus's I have tasted. Good with all types of food or just to sit down and sip on the bottle by itself.
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11/6/2011 - reddogcoach wrote: 95 Points
Simply Camus.
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11/6/2011 - Markwells wrote: 94 Points
Great
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10/29/2011 - Marc S wrote:
- Garnet color with slow forming legs. It's balanced and has flavours of oak and dusty with a medium/full body. Silky texture with a medium finish - Please read my 08/15/11 notes
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10/28/2011 - mpricher wrote: 93 Points
Delicious! This has gotten better! Dark purple beauty, with good viscosity in the glass. Wonderful plum and blackberry fruit, effusive with oak upon pouring. The Vanilla Oak does subside with air, then the melted chocolate comes along to dance with the berry fruit for a 45+ second finish. Lovely! This has some power to last a while, but very approachable now.
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10/26/2011 - bjecjohnson Likes this wine: 93 Points
APPEARANCE: Beautiful dark red color
AROMA: Bright red fruit, chocolate, dust and a hint of oak
TASTE: Silky smooth with chocolate and cherries. Very delicious.
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10/24/2011 - ptelgenh wrote: 92 Points
Rich blueberriy pie. On the sweet side. Moderately oaky with medium tannins. Like it!
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10/24/2011 - vinodonpedro wrote: 92 Points
Good cab. dark berries, plum. Strong alcohol...
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10/20/2011 - pc2006mg wrote: 95 Points
Enjoyed over 2 nights. Fantastic the first night and absolutely amazing the second. This is the stuff!!
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10/16/2011 - CobraKahn wrote: 92 Points
Delicious. Smooth, dark, ready to drink.
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10/9/2011 - dstein12 wrote:
No score. This simply isn't for me. Too much alcohol and port-like qualities render drinking anything more than a glass difficult. Also, it fell apart after several hours.
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10/8/2011 - monkeylug wrote: 94 Points
Better than I remember, this wine really has opened up and is drinking beautifully right now.
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10/1/2011 - cos65 wrote:
quite simply delicious drinking, okay, rather a lot of sweet, creamy vanillin oak and very fruit forward, but still delicious. ****
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9/20/2011 - GwenP wrote: 94 Points
Dark purple, cherry red at the rim. Intense nose of dark cherries and plumb. Delicious mixed dark berries. Smooth mouth feel, not very tannic. A really, really nice accessible cab.
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9/14/2011 - NH WINO wrote: 95 Points
This is a perfect cab, how does it get any better?? Drinking so well right now, I have one left and I will keep for a few years to see where it goes. We brought this bottle to a restaurant for a cork fee and was a PNP; nose was floral and jammy, nice purple color. Nice smooth taste, with a mid pallet spice and with excellent finish. Tasted vanilla, pepper, berries, small amount of oak. Just an excellent balance and a perfect bottle of wine in my opinion.
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9/4/2011 - Schiffy wrote: 92 Points
This wine explodes with dark fruit, almost like a mixed berry festival. Despite it's relative youth, the ripe fruit overwhelms the tannins creating an extremely smooth and rich mouthfeel. While this wine will not be for everyone, I loved it. If you like border line fruit bombs, this is for you.
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8/23/2011 - Bumbanian wrote: 91 Points
Rich, sappy and ripe. Nose has intense wafts of casis, charcoal, licorice. Smooth and lush in the mouth, with jammy blackberry. Medium length and showing a bit of it's alcohol at this point.
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8/21/2011 - Marc S wrote: 92 Points
Please read my 08/15/11 notes
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8/20/2011 - East of Napa wrote: 94 Points
never get tired of this wine. wonderful nose
and great smooth chocolate finish
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8/15/2011 - Marc S wrote: 90 Points
Excellent bottle of Caymus that is drinking quite well at this time. Probably could use a few more years but don't think one would be disappointed drinking this now. Very well balanced and not overly agressive with the tannins. Rich and smooth with a nice oak presence.
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8/9/2011 - yasha wrote: 95 Points
great cab , open a hour before dinner, love it ,nice to have this wine for house wine, i wish
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8/3/2011 - russdan60 wrote: 96 Points
Amazing pop and pour California cab. Wonderfully rich and smooth. Definite buy again.
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7/31/2011 - East of Napa wrote: 94 Points
wow, just wow!!!
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7/30/2011 - bryon m wrote: 92 Points
Movie night at the Rodgers house. We had a nice BBQ and drank two wines. The 2007 Caymus and 2009 Vigilance Cab. The Caymus was drinking at it's peak, soft - great fruit flavors and a hint of oak/vanilla. Smooth from start to finish. The Vigilance as also drinking well and likely not going to get that much better. The flavors were not as intense and the finish was not as long but still a very nice drink.
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7/21/2011 - gajalaa wrote: 92 Points
Dark purple color, nose of plum and wild berries, velvety smooth and silky with great full-body in the mouth, great balance some oakiness. great tannins and a coffee flavor at the end
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7/13/2011 - Hodby wrote: 92 Points
Caymus trio tasting (Thousand Oaks, Ca): Very dark purple color. The nose is room-filling of very ripe cherry, tobacco, bell pepper and more than a dollop of smoky oak. Medium tannin, medium-low acidity. This bottle may be heading underground for a while; it's tight like a fist, and less forward in the mouth than its companion bottles ('08, '09). The finish is excellent, mouth-coating and of unusual length for a mid-priced Napa cabernet. We think this bottling is the finest vintage in recent memory for Caymus' regular cab; it's the stallion and it's likely to run for a long time.
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7/4/2011 - bugdoced wrote: 92 Points
Big fruit at first but then settled down with some tart cherries and strawberries at the end of the bottle a few hours later; the vanilla notes are not overwhelming at the opening or at the end; a great bottle of wine
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7/4/2011 - winopops3 wrote: 92 Points
Not over done (if you like this style) even for a Caymus in 2007. Typical Caymus fruit, vanilla, rich oak treatment, soft (already) tannins, decent finish.
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7/3/2011 - blaine wrote:
Big, jammy, 15%, caymus on steroids
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6/23/2011 - BigPoppaMD wrote: 93 Points
Effingham with family. In order, 2009 Blue Eyed Boy, 2007 Caymus, 2009 The Boxer, 2007 Brancaia Tre, 2006 Galevan CDP, 2007 Las Rocas Grenache.
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6/20/2011 - KVM wrote:
Dark. Nose is blackberries and oak. Hinting at balance but still monstorously flavourful and young.
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6/19/2011 - MWes wrote: 92 Points
This wine is all about the fruit. A classic California Cab with raspberries, blueberries and strawberry on the nose. The palate was sweet berries and vanilla with a medium length finish. If California cabs are your thing, this is going to be pretty hard to beat for the price. Nice.
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6/18/2011 - 11mcraig wrote: 92 Points
Great Cali Cab. Decanter for 1 hour...dark fruit, vanilla on the nose, nice finish.
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6/16/2011 - ADiamond wrote: 93 Points
This wine is drinking well right now, will get better in a couple of years, but the tannins are smooth now. Nice fruit, berries and some plum. Long finish.
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6/15/2011 - km5 wrote: 95 Points
wife sneaked this one out for bday with the girls....
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6/12/2011 - cnr128 wrote: 89 Points
OK, so this wine was very good headed toward outstanding, but maybe I'm missing something, because, for me it was sort of underwhelming...at least for the price. Plum, dark berries and something caramelized. Honestly, the best part for me were the silky tannins, perfect. Maybe it's still a bit young, but I just didn't get it.
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6/10/2011 - Troon Likes this wine: 92 Points
This wine is singing now, but I think it still has some time left in it. Decanted for about an hour. Strawberries and a little pepper on the nose. Ripe berries on the palate with a nice medium-long finish.
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6/8/2011 - webbaker wrote: 93 Points
Excellent fruit, spicy, good tannic balance.
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5/26/2011 - Plantero wrote: 92 Points
good year
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5/23/2011 - Miceri wrote: 96 Points
A magnificient wine, just in its right spot. So much better than the 05 tasted half a year ago; dark red, bordering black; very deep intense fruity nose with hint of vanilla - reminds me a little of Aalto although less aggressive, this one is more subtle and rounded; creamy texture, melted soft chocolate, ripe black cherries; long long pleasant smooth aftertaste which goes on for more than two minutes; a true quality wine
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5/23/2011 - Ronfeldman wrote: 92 Points
Getting better every bottle!
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5/22/2011 - Terp82 wrote: 91 Points
Beautiful. Nice balance. Bold but not over the top. Unable to decant but was ready to drink out of the bottle.
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5/19/2011 - Headless wrote: 90 Points
Was opened 8 hours before serving, double decanted and just breathed in bottle.
Painfully young and over the top right now. Has way too much baby fat. I had people taste this blind and 6 out of 8 called "aussie shiraz". Nose of cassis liqueur, coffee and moka. On the palate this is rich, sweet and sexy but lacks the complexity a wine of this caliber should have. Again, way too young.
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5/16/2011 - Xtriguy wrote: 91 Points
Classic Caymus, but not over the top great, even a bit restrained for them. Which is quite a surprise.
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5/16/2011 - Jab_343434 wrote: 95 Points
Outstanding! Decanted for about 2 hours. As we drank the bottle the wine continued to open up more, three hours of decanting probably would have been perfect. Dark red in color, full bodied with notes of cherries and blackberries. Lots of fruit on the palate with subtle hints of oak and vanilla. Long smooth finish.
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5/10/2011 - East of Napa wrote: 92 Points
drank with adam moving d
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5/7/2011 - paulmase wrote: 90 Points
Blk cherry candy & green oak on the nose. A bit hot good tanins & big fruit. Not my style of cab but good 90pts. Drink now.
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5/6/2011 - Uglypinga wrote:
Big Ass American Cabs blind with shocking results! (Montana's Rib and Chop House): Wine #17
Mild nose of beef and vanilla with purple fruits. Ripe plums, cranberries and oak on the palate. Nice texture and body. Long finish. Good to great wine.
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5/2/2011 - Clarkmeister wrote: 91 Points
Massive fruit, took some time and air to move from a short finish to a medium length finish. Never developed any real nuance midpalate though. Very good, but wanted more. At the Painted Pony in St. George UT with Bill and Kathi
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5/1/2011 - msilver wrote: 92 Points
Very nice and blanced wine. Should show well in a couple more years. Open and decanted for about 2 hrs.
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5/1/2011 - Grayvino wrote: 93 Points
Very balance and integrated tannins. Beautiful deep purple color and showy dark fruit flavors. Very nice drink. 2007 continues to show that it is a great year.
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4/30/2011 - dontime wrote: 92 Points
PA Wine Talk Number 17 - Big Ass Napa Cabs/Blends (Montana's Rib & Chop House - Meadville, PA): Nose of ripe black and red fruit. On the palate, tons of fruit with vanilla and coffee notes. Nice.
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4/30/2011 - PetePullen Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drinking well now. Dark berry flavors. Very smooth. Some mocha notes.
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4/25/2011 - kthornton78 wrote: 93 Points
really starting to drink well. while a bit of a vanilla fudge sundae in its youth, this is developing nicely. on the nose, the vanilla is fading somewhat but still present with deep blackberry cobbler notes and nice herbaceousness. the palate is viscous with good tannic grip and decent acidity which support the fruit and cocoa. not the 'cab syrup' some described it as a year ago. really enjoyable.
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4/24/2011 - zacojam wrote: 92 Points
Deep color. Immediate plum/prune flavors when it first hits your palette. This is then followed by dark fruits with a long finish. 15% alcohol only give a little heat on the back end. In another few years this should mature nicely.
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4/24/2011 - webbaker wrote: 91 Points
Typical Caymus, fruit bomb, nice tannins.
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4/24/2011 - jonradus wrote: 93 Points
I've been tracking the progress of this wine over the past two years. It's starting to develop some secondary cocoa and coffee flavors on top of the jammy blackberry. The finish is very hedonistic. This wine is really starting to enter it's groove. I wouldn't hesitate to drink now but it will hang on for a few years.
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4/23/2011 - knlowery wrote: 93 Points
Let it breath an hour. The nose on this bottle was muted but the pallate was great with layers of fruit and soft tannins and rich finish
Enjoyed sipping through an evening of wine and cheese.
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4/17/2011 - Bunnstrom wrote: 85 Points
End of life port flavor but still very drinkable
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4/17/2011 - Marc S wrote: 90 Points
Always a great bottle of Cab. Although this is a young wine, I think it is ready to drink. Chocolate, black chbeery and oak are to be noted. This really is a well balanced wine. Soft tannins. A hint of coffee.
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4/12/2011 - Tuffdawg wrote: 91 Points
3 hour decant. Nose of cinnamon, black cherry, cassis, and sweet oak. On the palate this is very plush and velvety with plentiful dark and red fruits with creamy oak and vanilla. Moderate finish with some noticable heat. Still very good but not as good as the bottle I had a year ago.
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4/3/2011 - Pinot Evil wrote: 92 Points
Almost a balanced cherry cream soda but not sweet.
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3/25/2011 - awise45 wrote: 92 Points
Very rich, blast of dark fruit. Needs some time open and maybe even a couple more years in the bottle. Hint of vanilla and a long finish.
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3/18/2011 - gajalaa wrote: 93 Points
Dark purple color, nose of plum and wild berries, velvety smooth and silky with great full-body in the mouth, great balance some oakiness. great tannins and a coffee flavor at the end
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3/11/2011 - davidandrose wrote: 92 Points
Two time this week - an hour of air really had this wine showing fine.
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3/4/2011 - uncle al wrote: 92 Points
Exellent bottle of wine. May be young but very enjoyable. Excellen balance of fruit and not overpowering. Smooth but with great structure. I tried both, this one and the Caymus Special Selection. No comparison, this wine is about half the price and a much better bottle of wine. I have one left but looking for more. Caymus make a great Cab.
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2/27/2011 - t4drman Likes this wine: 90 Points
A wonderful cabernet as only Caymus does it. A delicious nose begging for you to taste. And once you indulge the request, the flavor doesn't fail. A brooding yet lithe sense of dark berries, seemingly heavier but not overpowering. Perfectly balanced and completely enjoyable.
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2/25/2011 - 1H2oMan wrote: 91 Points
The fruit in this was amazing decanted for 2 hours great wine.
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2/3/2011 - Hawk94 wrote: 92 Points
Dark purple red, wild cherry, berry nose. Firm structure, big body, soft tannin, sweet, long and harmonious finish. A great wine with aging potential.
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2/3/2011 - sgamiz wrote:
Terrific bottle of wine (93 -95)
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2/3/2011 - knlowery wrote: 93 Points
Great wine, a favorite and 2007 is a great year. I don't know what its like after 4 or 5 hours of breathing because I drink it too fast.
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2/1/2011 - Mike Mann wrote: 93 Points
One of my most favorite wines, big cab with a great nose full of berries, very smooth, well balanced tannins. took this bottle to an Italian resturant and opened a hour before drinking, started with a cianti, moved to the Caymus later in the dinner. Great finish
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1/31/2011 - J-Sho wrote: 93 Points
Big nose of ripe dark fruit with a slight sweet chocolate edge. Full bodied with beautiful complexity and mouth coating. Nice finish.
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1/29/2011 - neurovino wrote: 93 Points
This is a big cab. Surprising amount of oak and alcohol, but it works well. Beautiful and sweet across the palate. No tartness at all. Silky texture with fine, velvety tannins. I really like this, but I'm not sure I could justify $60.
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1/23/2011 - SM1 wrote:
Cotes Du Coeur
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1/23/2011 - Henrik M wrote:
Together with Per and Jan - danmark vandt håndboldkamp i wm mod koratien
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1/21/2011 - Plantero wrote: 92 Points
full body; need to age
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1/17/2011 - bryon m wrote: 91 Points
On the MLK Tournament trip we drank the Rambauer 07 Zin, Caymus Napa 07 Cab, Eponymous 05 Cab and 1999 Raymond Generations. All drank well, the Zin was a bit sweet, the Caymus is going to get better and the Eponymus and Raymond were good, the Raymond should be drank NOW not a year from now.
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1/16/2011 - vinodonpedro wrote: 93 Points
Ripe with fruits. Great cab. drinking really well already. Full of black berries. Have one more bottle that I am gonna keep a few years just to see how this wine develops over the next couple of years
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1/14/2011 - 2Travel wrote: 93 Points
Wonderful. Very smooth, very fine tannins. This is much better than the two previous vintages that we have been drinking lately.
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1/8/2011 - km5 wrote: 93 Points
Tasted friend's 1 day leftover bottle...so this sucker had time to breathe. Much better than the 07 Caymus I tasted 6 months ago. 07 tastes richer, sweeter than 06 and 08. 08 tends to have a little more spice prob due to it's youth. 06 I find to have a finer nose but less rich. The vanilla oak front is not as overpowering as before and is therefore imho more balanced. Very dark and deep, with chocolately fruit. Highly enjoyable.
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1/1/2011 - RBOND wrote: 94 Points
I did not decanter for long enough to bring out the best in this wine. I let sit open for 1 hour while we cooked the steaks, lobster, asparagus and pear salad. I did however pour two glasses that let off huge sweet flowery smells. It was very mature for a 2007 and the other bottle I own is staying in the cellar for a few more years. It was exceptionally fragrant with berry and flowers and a bit of oak. Spring smells jumped from the glass. I would say that for the price, it is an exceptional value.
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1/1/2011 - Pour Boy wrote: 93 Points
Distinctive Cab that's drinking great. Loads of vanilla and fruit, with hints of something like evergreen on the nose. Wish I had more . . .
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12/31/2010 - cbbrown3 wrote: 92 Points
Decanted for two hours. Deep, dark violet color. Lush and inviting nose with blackberries, vanilla, dried herbs, violets, chocolate and licorice on the nose. Full bodied with soft, silky tannins and low acidity. A bit too soft for me and I'd like a bit more tannic presense in a young cab. Rich on the palate and loaded with flavor. Oak not a problem, adds complexity but does not stand out. Long finish with chocolate and spice adding to the dominant fruit. Very flavorful but in the end it left me wanting a bit more zip and grip. This won't be one to lay down for a decade, enjoy it in it's first 5 or 6 years.
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12/25/2010 - Marc S wrote: 95 Points
I have been a huge Caymus fan for at least 10 years. This is truly 1 of the best bottles of Caymus that I have had. The fruit is beautiful. Well balanced. Loads of fruit. You can really taste the oak in this wine, but just the right amount. This is as good as the Special select. Pretty incredible for such a young Cab.
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12/25/2010 - 6831 wrote: 92 Points
Exceptionally fragrant with ripe red fruit, mint and menthol.
Rich and exhuberent flavors of creme de cassis, black cherry, creosote and blackberry.
Finish is also full, flashing big berry, oak and sour black fruit.
Very good.
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12/25/2010 - ehe123 wrote: 95 Points
Dark fruit abounds. Surprisingly supple and mature for a very big 2007 cabernet! Drinking perfectly now, so the question is what this will be like in 10 years?
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12/23/2010 - East of Napa wrote: 94 Points
wow, just wow
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12/20/2010 - Mike Mann wrote: 92 Points
Very impressive, wonderful nose, silky smooth, great cab
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12/20/2010 - jimmyrice14 wrote: 95 Points
Stunningly good for a young Napa cab...huge, full fruit that comes out almost immediately and lasts for hours. Balance, great finish, great nose...what's not to love about this wine? I can only imagine what it will taste like in a few years.
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12/19/2010 - LCHammer wrote: 95 Points
Classic fruit forward Napa cab. Great cab fruit up front but not over thr top. Smooth tannins. This one drinks great now - may or may not benefit from further age but I bet it will stay great for quite a while. Had with steak and prime rib - yum.
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12/18/2010 - europat55 wrote: 93 Points
Nice liquid silk/velvet appeal. Drinking very well right now with cellar potential. This will definitely please your guests.
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12/14/2010 - Jgshapo wrote: 93 Points
Outstanding wine. Drank after '07 far niente cab and this was much more approachable. Lots of vanilla, well balanced and creamy
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11/27/2010 - omars Likes this wine: 92 Points
Could have used more time in the bottle or I should have decanted it.
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11/25/2010 - marc2828 wrote: 91 Points
only way to get through Thanksgiving with the inlaws. Thanks Caymus
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11/25/2010 - marc2828 wrote: 91 Points
excellent
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11/22/2010 - brianngibson wrote: 93 Points
Definitely the best Caymus in the past several vintages. Really rich and extracted, more so than normal for this wine. Roasted meat, licorice, and espresso beans. Oak, mint and cherry. Delicious.
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11/21/2010 - dstraub wrote: 89 Points
I probably would have rated this one a lot lower if not for all the other scores here. We had this in a group with 3 other really good Napa cabs and it was clearly the least admired, even though it was the highest priced wine. Did not go well with food, seemed to have some syrup in it. Perhaps we had a bad bottle and will revisit it again in 6 months.
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11/20/2010 - Bwallace wrote: 92 Points
Had at kp's. Beat the stags leap in my mind but not others
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11/14/2010 - Jimdish25 wrote: 89 Points
I found this difficult to score possibly because we drank it immediately after 2000 LaTour Figeac or because my reference points were 1994-96 Caymus with a few years in bottle and haven't had since. In any case tannins and fruit are evident but the oak was out of balance for me and packed a real aftertaste which overpowered the finesse and quality of the fruit and the vintage. Right now they're fighting for control but hopefully will resolve differences because the wine seems to have the potential to be delicious. This bottle needed 2-3 years minimum but maybe there is some variation in certain barrels based on CT reviews.
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11/6/2010 - zamco17 wrote: 93 Points
Just cant get tired of this wine. Powerful, sweet tannin, a beast of a wine. Love it
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10/30/2010 - bjreznik wrote: 91 Points
Goodu
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10/23/2010 - aharrell1 wrote: 92 Points
We had some gorgeous dry-aged strips to grill and some fresh trumpet mushrooms to saute. It seemed only fitting that I corked this puppy.
A bit tannic due to it's young age, but after some decanting and some rest it opened up beautifully. TONS of deep, dark fruits- black cherry, cocoa, maybe a little plum.It had a long, lingering finish that permiated my sinuses. Love it now and will get better with some time.
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10/22/2010 - Life At Your Leisure 🍷 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Powerful alcohol whiff with dark cherry and licorice on the nose. This is a full-throttle Cabernet with huge gobs of dark cherry, black currant, dark chocolate, liqueur, coffee, and leather on the palate with firm tannins. This is more flashy compared to the '04, which had more density and subdued minerals that gave a lot more promise for cellaring. Drink from 2011 to 2017.
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10/21/2010 - awise45 wrote: 93 Points
Wonderfully rich and full bodied; dark purple, long finish.
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10/12/2010 - fast eddie28 Likes this wine: 95 Points
notes...Very interesting vino. To me it has the X-factor the Wow liquid silk/velvet appeal. As per wine maker notes, it was intentionally made without the tartness that some Napa cabs express. The real deal here, will be if it has the complexity or structure to evolve over the next many years. If somehow it does, it will truly be a 97pt or higher type of wine. In 20 years of drinking high end Napa Cabs I've only had a handful that gives so much right here and now....That being said, you have to enjoy the creamy/sweet smoothness that it displays...Otherwise you might be disappointed.
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10/9/2010 - jfkwines wrote:
This had soo much fruit. No oak, no tannins. Flawed bottle?
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10/7/2010 - pian0_player wrote: 91 Points
started out pretty strong. took to Ruths Chris to have with dinner and the wine has lovely fruit. Nice perfume, chocolate, spice, and rich black fruit. unfortunately towards the end of the meal the oak started to dominate the wine. out of balance, too much oak for my taste. also wish the wine had more complexity and less alcohol. still a nice cab from a great vintage.
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10/3/2010 - enovino wrote: 89 Points
Nose was moderately giving of beautiful ripe fruits and was very promising for this young wine. Showed deep dark red color and was viscous in the glass and mouth. 15% alcohol not prominent in nose or mouth. However, it seems overoaked to me. I tasted so much oak that I felt compelled to walk to my pantry and sniff a bottle of mexican vanilla. I should not have done that because the vanilla flavors were screaming after that, ruining my experience. I will never do that again. Besides the oak, this was fairly sweet with ripe dark fruits and moderate casis- sort of brutish for Caymus. Fairly tight as well as I did not decant, but did use a Vinturi on the pour. Not quite integrated yet and the oak certainly seemed out of balance at this point. I hope it integrates. I tried my first bottle about 1 year ago and was hoping this had evolved - NOPE. My magic number for Caymus is 7 years old, so I am going to stick with that and wait until 2014 for my last bottle. Wish I had more of the 2002 and 2003, which were super-de-lish!
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10/2/2010 - widget wrote: 91 Points
needed time to open up then was very good, needs a couple of more years
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9/24/2010 - sgamiz wrote: 95 Points
Wow; Blackberry, vanilla, Cherry _ great nose and better taste - it is still young - cannot wait to see how this wine inproves. Love this CAB!!!!
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9/13/2010 - NH WINO wrote: 93 Points
This cab is amazing. Nice color, deep rich purple. Decanted for 2 hours, vanilla, oak, black fruit. The finish to me was the best part, long and somewhat spicy. A great deal for this top quality napa cab. It will be interesting to see how the 08 compares… I plan on keeping my other bottles a bit long before tasting again; another year or two this wine may be somewhere around 95-97
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9/12/2010 - ephemeral8 wrote: 79 Points
nose: fake movie theater butter, overly malic. dill, pepper, cherry jam, coconut.
mouth: big fruity booze bomb, syrupy, toasted coconut, fake caramel. upfront is flabby although there is a bit of acid on the finish.
napa all the way.
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9/9/2010 - robertdtwo wrote: 93 Points
No decant; 30 minutes in oversized bdx glass. Dark fruit and chocolate; drinking wonderfully now, but will undoubtedly be a 95-pointer if you have the patience to leave this alone for a few years, allowing oak/vanilla to subside just a bit.
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9/8/2010 - Dasher wrote: 93 Points
Buy it, pop it, pour it, enjoy it, because there is not much left of it around the country. However the 2008 is just as good. Solid wine!
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9/7/2010 - Double-A Likes this wine: 90 Points
Slightly closed currant and vanilla toast nose. Opulent and sweet-centred palate with tar and coconut flavours. Long, luscious finish.
4/5
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9/4/2010 - ikileo wrote:
CULINA "Our Wines, Our Style" (Grand Ballroom, Marriott, Singapore): Nose: Rich black pums and blackcurrant. Additional nose of mixed nuts, coconut and tobacco. Rather pleasant
Taste: My notes read "one of the most juicy" with regard to the rest of the wines tasted during this event. Very gripping tannins that are still present. Complexities in the wine abound with the dark juicy fruit, dark chocolate and spices.
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9/4/2010 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Culina : Our Wines, Our Style (J.W.Mariott Hotel): Alcohol : 15%
Dusty, green bell pepper, with blackcurrant and licorice and earth. The nose is quite good but not the palate which is ultra ripe blackcurrant fruits (over, I think) dominants with some green stalk-y flavor that is creamy and silky in texture that is fleshy, sweet with bitter cocoa long finish that is spicy. Very California, very sweet. Buy - No.
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9/4/2010 - canan wrote: 93 Points
No real notes taken but really a great wine that almost surprised me.. Very intense black currant fruit with a lot of burned earth and just a hint of oak and vanilla. Also some sweet cassis flavours coming through the good aftertaste.
It does have a little bit of minerality but overal a modern and impressive wine.
Really great vintage of this wine.
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9/4/2010 - raydawgone wrote: 93 Points
Dencanted for 3 hours. Heavy-duty creme de cassis, vanilla and green oak. Bottle is too young but toward the end of the night and the next day, the oakiness blew off and really came in to its own, with chocolate overtones on the long, illustrious finish. With a handful of years in additional cellaring, this bottle will be in the 97+ range! Highly recommended!
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9/1/2010 - TheEngineer wrote: 93 Points
Deep purple, primal, ripe and deep. Great density of fruit (perhaps a bit overdone??), but combined with very nice structure, almost vervy. Excellent and decent price.
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8/30/2010 - michigan dogs wrote: 93 Points
this is a big, fruitty Napa Cab, for those who like the Napa style, you will love this, those who favor a more bourdeau cab, stay away.
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8/29/2010 - Fdarvish wrote: 93 Points
Extremely smooth.
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8/26/2010 - bundydavis wrote: 94 Points
This wine is drinking beautifully for such a young Cali Cab. Just silky and fruity with hints of vanilla. We tasted a Caymus vertical of 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007 last night. I felt the 2007 was the best, followed by 2004, 2005 and then 2006. They were all great wines and everything you expect from Caymus, which has become one of the most consistent Napa Cab producers around. I was surprised at the subtle differences of each year. What a treat!
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8/26/2010 - hammie1234 wrote: 94 Points
Shockingly good... even next to 3 other vintages of Caymus. Young, lively, huge amounts of fruit. Great finish. Yeeehaw!
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8/25/2010 - stanford88 wrote: 85 Points
Rich, young. So much vanilla on the nose and palate - thought I was eating a vanilla wafer. Good structure. Great example of a fruit-forward CA cab. I think the vanilla was overpowering.
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8/25/2010 - danielbleier wrote: 92 Points
consistent with prior notes...this is a fine example of fruity, currant and plum dominated california cab
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8/22/2010 - Dasher wrote: 93 Points
Great juice. Great everyday bottle of wine out of the bottle. Highly recommend!
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8/19/2010 - Cullens wrote: 87 Points
Quite disappointing, I believe it was simply young although it was decanted for 4+ hours. Lots a alcohol made this wine "hot"
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8/15/2010 - Dasher wrote: 92 Points
Always a great bottle of wine! If you haven't tried it, I would do so!
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8/15/2010 - East of Napa wrote: 94 Points
wow!!!!!
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8/13/2010 - mpricher wrote: 92 Points
Blind Tasted until someone revealed the true wine. Dark-Dark Purple ink. Very strong black fruit, vanilla on the nose. I thought this was a high-end Syrah or Shiraz at first, until someone let the cat out of the bag. WoW! This has deep rich black and blue fruit. Slowly opened to Maple syrup and blueberry pancakes. This big boy is rich and young! The Vanilla oak resonates and the tannins were super-powered! This is a a very powerful wine at this stage! This is very different from the 2006 I drank 3 weeks ago. I really do love this winery!
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8/11/2010 - East of Napa wrote: 95 Points
What a wine for the price. Great chocolate nose and what flavors. Great second wine tasting like Special Select for half the price
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8/9/2010 - rafinspace wrote: 90 Points
I'm giving it a 90 because it's very well-made, but stylistically, it's not for me. Very dark, leaning toward cooked, over-ripe fruit.
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8/7/2010 - Psu1 wrote: 92 Points
Drank with Al, chris recommended it.
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8/7/2010 - East of Napa wrote: 96 Points
Wow, This wine will knock your socks off. Drinking like Special Select. Powerful Chocolate and vanilla nose, and I mean powerful. Wonderful taste and great finish. Super club buy at $58.
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8/6/2010 - Doctron wrote: 93 Points
Popped and poured. beautiful dark color. Seductive nose with classic cassis, slight cedar box, and cake batter. Fruity palate with nice structure. Smooth tannins. I really enjoyed this wine. Will definitely buy more.
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8/4/2010 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Wine flight at Lutsen Resort (Lutsen Resort): Dark purple color really stands out. Sweet dark fruits, blackberry, blueberry, light spice, followed by great cincentration on hte palate and a tantalizing velvety mouth feel, round tannins and a long finish with mocha and vanilla notes. Well made and well balanced wine.
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7/24/2010 - NPD wrote: 90 Points
nose: berry and Christmas spice
creamy over time.
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7/24/2010 - NPD wrote: 91 Points
rich berry and christmas spices on nose.
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7/22/2010 - thptrek wrote: 93 Points
Mint hint of chocolate and elegant flavors
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7/17/2010 - OldSpec Likes this wine: 93 Points
Strongly aromatic nose, over-extracted in a most impressive way, the epitome of a showy New World Cab.
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7/14/2010 - Capt Cutlass wrote: 86 Points
Darker garnet aspect. Deep aromas of vanilla (obvious new American oak) with forest berries in the background. Creamy, soft, round entry and very concentrated. Well made technological wine but it lacks finesse and the oak is too pronounced for me.
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7/14/2010 - moosej wrote: 93 Points
Slightly sweet with a lot of fruit but not over powering. A nice wine to drink with food or not (though I did with a number of good cheeses). Very tasty!
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7/13/2010 - oog wrote: 90 Points
Nose: Fruit and cream. The oak is def coming through a bit. Taste: This tastes like sweet blueberry pie. Maybe some cinnamon on the back. Moderately long finish. Big and fruity, tannins to last for a while, but not the most complex wine... but it does taste very good, just over the top.
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7/10/2010 - km5 wrote: 92 Points
Tasted like candy--big white chocolate, vanilla cherry opening. Too young but still enjoyable.
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7/6/2010 - Juve69 wrote:
aromas of sweet berrys, spice and dark fruits. This is jam, but not over the top!
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7/5/2010 - WinstonWolfe wrote: 94 Points
Not refined or overly complex. It is simply delicious.
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7/2/2010 - Nutty08 Does not like this wine: 89 Points
San Antonio Wine Geeks - Potluck (Auden's Kitchen): Reduction and heat on the nose with vanilla, cassis, and cedar box. Slightly sweet palate, with good complexity, and finishes with a vanilla milk shake character and chewy sweet tannins. I can see the appeal, and it is well made for the style, but too much oak influence for me.
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6/29/2010 - mreinitz wrote: 92 Points
This seemed better than the bottle we drank a few months ago. Big, ripe, and a little on the sweet side, but not as monolithic as last time with dark fruit, cherry, and currant flavors.
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6/27/2010 - subtlet Likes this wine: 89 Points
Red Mountain Tour (Red Mountain, Washington): Raspberries, plums, and some woody oak appear on the nose. Full vanilla flavors and rich blackberries set in quickly. A fun tart note rises on the mid palate. Full on vanilla oak and blackberry get all big and crazy on the finish. Some heat shows as well.
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6/23/2010 - matthen wrote: 93 Points
Very nice. Aromas of berry, currant, spice and dark fruits. The flavors repeat the aromas and the finish is well structured yet integrated to provide enjoyable drinking now.
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6/21/2010 - cartime wrote: 87 Points
Dark ruby. Jammy blackberry and cassis fruit, mocha, and vanilla. Silky, lush mouthfeel. Soft tannins. Too sweet and jammy for my tastes. Like drinking spiked blackberry pie filling.
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6/21/2010 - jaxpaj wrote: 93 Points
The opposite of Silver Oak. This has many of the characteristics of a great cab except the lack of depth and the wine being void of any oak. It is strange to have a very good cabernet and to not be able to detect even a hint of oak. The reports of vanilla, milk chocolate, and sweet berries hold true. It does stay true to Caymus style with the velvety texture and the tannins kicking in late. I wouldn't pair this with anything heavy, this might be the perfect bottle to start a wonderful night.
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6/19/2010 - heythatslife wrote: 92 Points
Thick and bursting with ripe fruit, this wine has California written all over it. Notes of cassis, blackberry, dark chocolate, vanilla bean, and cinnamon are detectable, as well as a hint of greenness. It is effusive on the palate as it is on the nose and has a sweet and plush mouthfeel, with soft tannins giving way to a coffee-like finish. I would normally be concerned by the level of oak that this wine has, but it has enough fruit to balance the oak, no doubt helped by the 2007 vintage. Surprisingly approachable for such a young cabernet, and the sort of wine that both casual drinkers and enthusiasts would enjoy, if somewhat middle-of-the-road.
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6/15/2010 - prez wrote: 93 Points
Very tight! Extreamly long legs. Decant for at least 3 hours, but may be better off waiting another few years. Has great potential. Score based on potential.
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6/14/2010 - King Cab wrote: 91 Points
Dark color as expected. Nose of wild flowers and sweet black cherries and black berries, hints of currant. The palate starts with some sassafras, cola, and red cherries, but slowly evolves to some darker fruits like black currant, plum, and black raspberry. This is a very easy drinking wine with a medium to light mouth feel. It’s plushy and a sweet fruit forward with nary a backbone in sight, which only reinforces my theory of 2007 being an early drinking vintage. Sure, this is a showy wine with some elegance lots of purity, but the tannic structure is weak. It has a long very long and flamboyant finish. 91
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6/12/2010 - wallstreet wrote:
Great wine, but such a baby. Wait wait wait, this will be another 1997 all over again. Very enjoyable, butvwasca bit tight on the finish due to pop and pour through a venturi. Best to open 2-3 hours beforehand at least.
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6/11/2010 - golfwine wrote: 89 Points
Drank from a magnum, which might explain why this didn't display its typical Cali Fruit Bomb qualities. I've always considered this wine one of the earliest drinkers of the Napa stalwarts (supported by the fact that it's released almost an entire vintage earlier than its peers). This one took 40-60mins to open and had a very respectable, structured finish. The acidic mid-palate was muted but again, one doesn't have expectations of a long-lived wine, when buying this. The aromatics similarly, were atypical but very alluring; with more emphasis on the mineral tones coupled with a pretty cool licorice-dominant richness. At the very least, this was probably the most "interesting" of the several vintages I've tried to date. I'm tempted to give it another point or two for that alone, however, it was not worthy of the descriptor - Outstanding.
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5/30/2010 - danielbleier wrote: 92 Points
very much enjoyed this, plum, berry and spice, plenty of fine tannins
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5/21/2010 - Naso wrote: 93 Points
Loaded with fruit. This is an outstanding cab. Drink today or hold.
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5/16/2010 - D.Redmond wrote: 91 Points
What you would expect. Solid bottle.
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5/15/2010 - paulmase wrote: 90 Points
Cocoa, drk fruit and spice on the nose and palate a bit hot but a nice cab with good mouth feel. Drink young 90pts.
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5/14/2010 - ekirby wrote: 89 Points
Big, grapey (does not even taste like Cabernet Sauvignon), smooth, well balanced. Simple flavors, nice lingering finish. Nothing hot or offensive. Seems like they traded safety/security of not offending for having a wine with individual, nuanced and clear characteristics.
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5/13/2010 - envirovino wrote: 89 Points
Well made Cali Cab, nothing out of whack. Nose was attractive. The flavor was my issue - mainly that it was one flavor - sweet plums. Soft, mildly oaky finish, but with an odd note that I couldn't place. Drinkable now. For $60 there are many other options out there.
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5/13/2010 - robertdtwo wrote: 92 Points
Beautiful dark violet color. Wonderful bouquet upon decant...sweet berries and spice. One hour in the decanter before first taste, and I can see that I'll need to find more. Velvety tannins; much smoother than expected from a young cab. Dark fruit on the palate while bouquet eased towards (super-mild) forest floor/wet leather. Good stuff, and only a tiny bit of heat despite high alcohol level on label. A small tannin reserve presented itself on the second glass (also the faintest bit of black pepper), so I hope this will hold on for a while.
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5/9/2010 - Faryan wrote: 93 Points
Dinner at Jace's (Jace's House): Imminently pleasureable and this wine will really strike a chord with many pleasure seekers. Such an opulent nose of clove, cardamom and cinamon spice. Very rounded with no edges and balanced, but again, the wine lacks typicity, variance, charisma and identity. One topic of the discussion was vertical tastings and their importance. We were in agreement that seminal vineyards show authenticity in vertical tastings; by that I mean that the wine is authentic to its terroir as well as authentic to the vintage. This 07 Caymus is neither, an international vagabond of no origin or heritage. I could see how many could go crazy over it though. Very hedonistic but don't expect it to ever be in my cellar.
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5/9/2010 - jfont123 wrote: 92 Points
Jammy and rich from a blind tasting
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5/8/2010 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 92 Points
Third time sampling this wine and impressive again. Nose of cherry, spice, oak and earth. Good structure and medium finish. This should age well.
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5/7/2010 - europat55 wrote: 93 Points
My first '07 Caymus... and now I can understand the enthusiast around that wine! Amazing nose of sweet vanilla! Rich, full and balanced taste. Drinking very well right now and seems to have potential to improve. 93 pts now and probably 94-95 in a couple of years. Lasted 5 days (vacu-sealed at room temperature) with no sign of degradation. Great wine!
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5/6/2010 - rjd572 wrote: 95 Points
Awesome!
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5/5/2010 - marc2828 wrote: 94 Points
Outstanding bottle. Shared with the wife that only like whites - Rislings and Chardonnay. She really enjoyed it. HAd with a steak and maybe I'll get lucky. Need I say more...thanks Caymus.
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5/1/2010 - Yack Man wrote: 92 Points
Dark, color, good nose (tobacco cigar box), dark berries and plums and hints of dark chocolate – Love it!
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4/30/2010 - jad1964 wrote: 94 Points
words like soft & sweet come to mind on this one. it is so smooth to me too. really loved it. did get the vanilla...did get alot of sweet fruit. my only question is how long this one will last? i happen to think at $55 per this one is worth it.
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4/29/2010 - flerve wrote:
A delicious, sweet fruit bomb. A different style from most Napa cabs but I enjoyed it.
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4/27/2010 - RMundell Likes this wine: 87 Points
Sweet syrupy almost port like cabernet. Completely over the top sweet. Everyone else loved it, I was not as impressed.
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4/25/2010 - ekirby wrote: 93 Points
Rich, full and balanced. A pure leasure to drink now.
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4/25/2010 - collinb227 wrote: 92 Points
notes consistent with previous
although this time I think my palate was overpowered with a previous wine
I didn't seem to find as much in this particular bottle
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4/21/2010 - vanpe003 wrote: 94 Points
No detailed notes. Dinner in the Cecchin Room at the Rosewood. This was the wine special for the evening at $80. 3 bottles turned into 6 for the table. Enjoyed by all, this was rich and fairly heavy, but approachable without the awkwardness I'd expect in such a young wine. A great wine with the steaks that most of us ordered. I do wonder about its longevity given that I didn't detect many of the characteristics (tannic, closed, acidic) that I'd associate with aging long and gracefully. With more of these back home, I'm thinking a 5-7 year drinking window (now through 2017).
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4/19/2010 - Dasher wrote: 95 Points
This bottle is smoking! A great wine that needs no time in the cellar. WOW
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4/17/2010 - JAT wrote: 95 Points
Excellent wine. Dark fruit, chocolate, ripe supple tannins, good structure, well-balanced 15% alcohol, relatively long finsih.
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4/17/2010 - dblbogey wrote: 95 Points
This bottle blew me away! Great texture with all sorts of ripe fruits on the nose and pallet. Nice creamy finish with moderate tannins and nice mouth feel. WOW!
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4/16/2010 - thejamer Likes this wine:
Too pricey at $60.
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4/10/2010 - Tuffdawg wrote: 95 Points
3 hour decant. Very dark color. Nose of cassis, candied fruit, nutmeg, and hints of mint and chocolate. On the palate very full bodied and rich with dark fruit, well integrated oak. Long creamy finish with nice balance. Glad I have another one.
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4/10/2010 - fwgolfpro wrote: 94 Points
Dark, dark, color. Very inviting nose of candied berries, cassis, vanilla, nutmeg,and cigar box. Also has hints of old leather and dusty boxes, very much like a grandparent's closet. Almost antique, yet very intriguing. On the palate this wine does not miss much. Nice dark berries and plums, that's well balanced with mouth coating tannin. 15% Alcohol is also kept somewhat in check. A dark earthiness of tobacco, mocha, and leather is very prominent. Beautiful velvety mouthfeel. This wine is drinking beautiful now and should only get better this time. I can honestly say a nice buy at $60!
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4/7/2010 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Richly oaked and for some reason "acorn" just occured to my mind. You can tell its 2007, what a great vintage. Soft, easy but not without structure.
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4/3/2010 - cesakaguchi wrote: 91 Points
Surprised to find sediment in this young wine.
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4/2/2010 - kaahnman wrote: 93 Points
very good. drank with friends. a wine that one finishes and wants more. not perhaps profound, but very tasty and gives pleasure to drink.
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4/1/2010 - GimmeTheBottle wrote: 94 Points
Incredible. Strawberry cotton candy, vanilla cream, cinnamon, licorice. It's all there. WOW. This just happens to hit my palate perfectly. I would love to have a case of this and open one every year to see how it evolves. A steal for $60.00. Do yourself a favor a pick up one of these gems.
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3/30/2010 - Maliblue wrote: 85 Points
Second time with this wine and might have been a bad bottle. Thought it was thin and lacking much fruit. Decanted for 3 hours. Disappointing. From memory the first one was significantly better.
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3/29/2010 - greatwineshark wrote: 92 Points
This is a great wine. The texture and feel make it unique among other California Cabs. I would have liked some more action on the nose, but the overall feel of the wine makes up for it. That being said, Caymus is at least 20% overpriced due to its name.
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3/28/2010 - SMG Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pop and pour, which I think was a mistake because this did not show quite as well as previous bottles that I have decanted but it was still quite good. Big, dark, pretty concentrated. Lots of dark fruits, blackberry, blueberry, plum, mocha, and coffee. The oak is there but does not stick out, and will integrate with some additional time in the bottle. Soft on the palate with good mouthfeel and weight. Not incredibly complex now and it will be interesting to see where this goes in 3, 5, 10 years. I think it will easily last 10 years and will be quite enjoyable. I can see how many people think this is overdone. It is not an elegant CA Cabernet. Fun to drink!
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3/27/2010 - SacramentoCharlie wrote: 88 Points
This was the second time tasting this wine. This bottle was decanted for 2-3 hours and just didn't show the depth or intensity of the previous from a few months ago but was still good.
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3/27/2010 - *Vine* wrote: 93 Points
Popped and slow o'ed for 5 hours, served at roughly 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Deep purple/crimson hue. Forward nose of plummy dark fruits, deep black currant, creme de cassis, melted "raisinets," and toasty oak. Medium-plus body. Thoroughly modern style Cabernet on the palate, with oodles of decadent fruit - think black cherry cordial, overripe blackberries, milk chocolate candy bar, vanilla bean, and heavy handed toasted oak - did Robert Foley help with this one? Soft, velvety tannins round this wine out on the moderate-plus finish. Drinking perfectly right now and doesn't seem to have the structure needed for serious aging...should last for at least 5-8 years (was this made with the intention of early drinking?).
Although lacking in complexity, this is delicious and profound in it's own hedonistic fashion...will certainly alienate just as many as it "Wows!"
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3/25/2010 - jsiegel wrote: 88 Points
Still very very young. Fairly non-descript at this point. Can only hope that after a few years in the cellar it will be the great wine that we are expecting.
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3/22/2010 - winedrinker77 wrote: 88 Points
A little over ripe for me and too much oak treatment. Nose is wonderful however oak was distracting on the finish. I can see a lot of people liking this. Not bad just not my cup of tea.
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3/21/2010 - Joelene wrote: 92 Points
I actually liked this more than the SS. More raw and primal, the SS is over the top and fake/manufactured tasting. This one is more tannic and more interesting. Very big, very tasty.
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3/20/2010 - collinb227 wrote: 94 Points
Strawberry pez candy, caramel, candy apple, strawberries and cream, vanilla, oak
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3/20/2010 - brigcampbell wrote: 91 Points
Carolyn Nichol's Birthday Party (Ladera Ranch, CA): Lots of tannis, it's still a baby. But a very nice caymus for sure. dark fruit and medium finish. Still too tight right now but this has promise to jump a couple points higher after a long nap.
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3/15/2010 - Cloverstudio wrote: 91 Points
A little too much of a good thing. The first sip was wow, but it didn't seem to improve on it. I don't see much of a future for this wine, but it is good drinking now and probably for the next 5-7 years.
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3/13/2010 - redno5 wrote: 91 Points
Grippy tannins with a slightly oak touched finish. Dark concentrated fruit nice finish. Needs time in cellar.
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3/10/2010 - rmcnees Likes this wine: 93 Points
Incredibly smooth - soft silky finely integrated tannins - mocha laced with red currant and red raspberry, blueberry fruit with soft oak.
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3/8/2010 - savjrb2012 wrote: 90 Points
Very good wine. Could use a few more years of cellaring.
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3/6/2010 - yatomhoo Likes this wine: 90 Points
Very earthy with a nice balance
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3/6/2010 - Neuman wrote: 90 Points
good nose. balanced but nothing special.
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3/6/2010 - Claretjugornot wrote: 92 Points
Drank last night when dad was in town. Amy and i ripped into this and Dad went with a Simi Chardonnay. Didn't think much about breaking it down for a review at the time. Memory of it is just of a very good napa cab and all you expect from the archetype. Nothing ever with Caymus that sets it apart for me. Realtive to $20-$30 bottles it is a great treat, but in this price range i'd rather the Justin or Altamura. Would never turn down a glass of course. 92 JDM
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3/3/2010 - brian1 wrote: 95 Points
A WOW wine for me. Like drinking choclate devil cake. Silky smooth, complex beautiful flavors of berries/vanilla/choc, some oak but perfectly in balance. I tasted, I quaffed, I bought a case the next day.
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2/27/2010 - pkbackman Likes this wine: 94 Points
A stunning bottle of wine. Luscious red fruit and some blueberry as well, that goes on and on. Slight hint of vanilla and oak. Beautifully integrated tannins. Even at a young age...outstanding
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2/26/2010 - ChinonRouge wrote: 85 Points
There is nothing elegant about this wine. It is just over the top oak and extracts. Not my thing at all. Might as well buy a $20 Australian shiraz--this Caymus reminds me a little of lower end Mollydooker wines. Pass.
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2/25/2010 - Finlaymd wrote: 90 Points
Tart
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2/25/2010 - Pinot Evil wrote: 92 Points
Always reliable, great fruit and soft tannins.
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2/22/2010 - grrrpor wrote: 92 Points
same as the first - so immediately approachable - I get why there is a bit of a backlash against this by some people - it's just a very very nice balanced and fruit forward wine - - it doesn't ask you to think about whether you like it or not, or whether you should like it or not - it's just there to be enjoyed. No idea what this will do long term in the cellar - presently doesn't last long enough in the bottle to see if there's going to be more to it - but - it's a terrific wine to share and enjoy NOW>
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2/21/2010 - Rubanyi wrote: 89 Points
Decanted for 2 hours, still a little tight. Good now, but cellaring for a few years will make this an excellent bottle
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2/20/2010 - Charlie Carnes wrote: 87 Points
I certainly don't remember such an aggressive oak treatment to this wine before. Was it spoofilated, or just blown out of proportion? The dark black cabernet fruit profile was pretty good, but the rest of the constituent parts were a little out of balance. I wonder if this wine will ever be like some of its siblings from the early 1990's? Time will tell, but I don't think so. I really do believe it will settle down SOME, but I'm not sure how much. I have drunk some other 2007's that saw plenty if not 100% new oak, and they did not have this aggressive out-of-balanceness, if you will. 87+
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2/17/2010 - edm wrote:
This wine is a caricature of what a fine cali cab can be. I don't mean that as a complement. There is no subtlety or finesse here at all. Perhaps a few years in the bottle will bring it into balance.
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2/17/2010 - Marcop300 wrote: 93 Points
Very good. Thanks Thom for telling me to buy it.
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2/16/2010 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 93 Points
Dark color. An intense nose of spice, cherry, plum and oak. The palate features dark fruits, vanilla, oak and spices. A medium finish and this is a balanced wine. No flaws evident. This is the best Caymus I have tasted in years.
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2/9/2010 - jeffm_fla wrote: 92 Points
Another very good Caymus cab. Plush, layered and powerful. Hard to believe this is a "second" wine.
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2/9/2010 - SMG wrote: 93 Points
Decanted for 2 hours. Have had this wine 7 times now and really enjoy it every time. Drinking great from the first sip. Big, dark, pretty concentrated. Lots of dark fruits, blackberry, blueberry, plum, mocha, and coffee. The oak is there but does not stick out, and will integrate with some additional time in the bottle. Soft on the palate with good mouthfeel and weight. Not incredibly complex now and it will be interesting to see where this goes in 3, 5, 10 years. I think it will easily last 10 years and will be quite enjoyable. I can see how many people think this is overdone. It is not an elegant CA Cabernet. Fun to drink!
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2/6/2010 - MrPosh wrote: 90 Points
I think the 2007 caymus needs to laydown a year or two . The start is choclate , fruitywith a long finish.
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1/30/2010 - cliffkol wrote: 91 Points
Crown Wine Project Newborn Tasting (Hollywood, FL): Long finish, good nose. very tannic. needs more time in cellar (Doris, "too tannic")
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1/30/2010 - SF John wrote: 95 Points
Beth says licorice. We like this one alot. Chuck Wagner is a talented winemaker. For those of you that don't know, this blend is the result of Chuck buying grapes from 30-40 growers, tasting all of them, selecting the ones he likes, then blending the best along with his own estate fruit to produce 30,000 cases. Unbelieveable consistent quality over the years. Anyone can make 500 cases of good wine ... Caymus makes 30k. Buy this wine and enjoy over the next 10 years.
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1/30/2010 - mreinitz wrote: 91 Points
Plenty of oak and concentrated red fruits. Rich. Enjoyable but not a lot of structure and too big for much nuance.
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1/30/2010 - bigdomer wrote:
I am not going to give this a rating because I am not sure that I got a perfect bottling of this acclaimed wine. I had a bottle a Ruth's Chris this week and thought I was drinking blueberry soda. Very syrupy and sweet. Much lighter than I recall more recent Caymus vintages. I have a bottle in the cellar that I may hold on to and see what it's like in future years.
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1/28/2010 - the godfather wrote:
not bad, but can be summed up as another cali oaky fruit bomb
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1/24/2010 - iamandyc wrote: 92 Points
Young. A little candy like at first but picked up some structure as we went along. Deep, fruit dominated. Not much acid. Strong nose. Hoping for better.
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1/23/2010 - mmurry wrote: 92 Points
The nose had raspberry and spice, leather, and some chocolate at the end. The palate was very smooth, and slightly sweet, and had raspberry, cherry, mocha, and a leather finish.
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1/22/2010 - michigan dogs wrote: 92 Points
We did a mini verticle vs. the 97 Caymus. Everyone preferred the 97 over the 07, although I thought the 07 was outstanding and improved over time with air, it had only been decanted for a short period. Darker and thicker than the 97. Wish I had more of both
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1/20/2010 - alphabiotics wrote: 94 Points
Gorgeous. Needs to breath for a while as alcohol on opening was a bit overwhelming. Milk chocolate, vanilla, lots of rich dark berries, luscious. Lovely to drink now and best of all improved over the next couple of days as the alcohol aroma disappeared yet all the wonderful flavors stayed full intact. Off to buy more and will hold a few for a few years too.
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1/16/2010 - John McCabe wrote: 91 Points
A bit disappointed with this. A lot of chocolate and vanilla - a bit obvious somehow.
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1/8/2010 - Knicksfan wrote: 91 Points
Packed with fruit and flavor but clearly young and not as integrated as I like. A bit more oak than I prefer. I would wait a year or so and try again.
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1/2/2010 - tigerpaw75 wrote: 93 Points
Very good...smack you in the face nose of vanilla and dark fruit. On the palate just a blast of chocolate covered cherries on vanilla cookies...with a spicy component and great smooth tannins. But, at 15.0% alcohol, is close to being over the top - too Aussie syrah like in its oaky syrupy goodness...that said, it was a perfect match for grilled NY strip...maybe a little bottle age will calm the fruit and the heaviness down a little?
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1/1/2010 - gee0001 wrote: 94 Points
Wow! This is a fantastic wine! It was clearly meant for my palate. Even as a 2007 this is immediately ready to drink out of the bottle. I had this at dinner (BYOB) so started drinking right away. The wine remained remarkably unchanged over the hour or so while showing some improvement with time. This is a big wine that should age nicely if you can avoid drinking it all right away. The mouth feels is like a favorite, soft, and comfortable blanket covering your tongue. The color is a dark, thick purple that could stain the glass. The nose is huge with ripe dark fruit and an incredibly pleasant approach to the senses. The initial taste hits with dark fruit (plums are evident) and a balance of spices to match. The wine has a lushness that last from beginning to end. This is not overly oaked and I would say that the balance is very good (more heavily weighted toward the fruit than the wood, tannins, acid, or alcohol). The wine does not seem complex but actually requires a focus on the flavor to enjoy all it holds due to SO MUCH flavor. Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy!!! I need to buy more.
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12/31/2009 - sjk7 wrote: 85 Points
Bottle may have been flawed, but wine didn't live up to past vintages. Disappointed.
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12/29/2009 - wraz wrote: 94 Points
What a nice surprise! A friend opened a bottle on Christmas Eve and all 3 of us that sampled the wine were blown away with the complexity and drinkability. The nose is an interesting combination of spice and rich plum. First sip gives you a mouthful of chocolate,dark berry fruit and mocha all with very soft but present tannins. One taste made me seek out this wine and now I have 36 bottles to enjoy now and in the future.
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12/29/2009 - Markshawphotos wrote: 94 Points
Wow, what a great bottle of wine. We had this with friends with a Prime Rib Roast. Outstanding. Blackberry syrup (a sweet taste) and plums.
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12/28/2009 - signotim wrote: 91 Points
with MG and Chris in PA
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12/27/2009 - vintage72 wrote: 92 Points
Very tasty
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12/27/2009 - monkeylug wrote: 93 Points
Dense plum, cassis, and blackberry syrup with gripping tannins and a long, beautiful finish. This has the potential to age for 10 years or more, but it's drinking deliciously now. Hold for awhile if you have the patience.
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12/24/2009 - rcmcb wrote: 88 Points
Opened with Christmas Eve dinner, and this was a massive disappointment. I thought this was pretty good when I had it at a dinner party earlier in the fall, but this bottle was completely one-note. And that note was cotton candy.
I returned the rest--more for the rest of you.
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12/24/2009 - tantotinto wrote: 92 Points
Opened and tasted at 63 degrees without decanting. Dark garnet in color. It is not often a wine's aroma makes my mouth water but the rich fruit welling up from this glass is doing just that. Big, rich, luscious fruit. Dark cherry, cocoa and spice. Tannins in the finish but not unpleasantly so. Napa Cab alright. This is good stuff.
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12/23/2009 - rdsboca wrote: 91 Points
Instant gratification in a glass. Thick, rich, chewy bowl of cherries with a drizle of chocolate. Decent finish. Made to drink young.
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12/22/2009 - rjhilgers@gmail.com wrote: 93 Points
The good news is that this wine definitely delivers on what I've heard. It's a big, aromatic California Cabernet, with so many interesting elements. Over a period of about 15 minutes I picked up blackberry, chocolate, coffee, dark cherry, paprika and herbs on the nose. So many good things, it's hard to list them all. In the mouth, it's just as extravagant, but without as many spice and herb notes, mostly cherry, plum, dark berries and espresso. It's a 15% alcohol wine, but, even at that high level, it's an incredibly well balanced wine with very firm tannins, mild but good acidity and an incredibly long finish. Definitely still a little young, but deserving of the Caymus name. This is a fabulous wine and should have the stamina to peak at about 5 - 7 years...just decant it if you want to enjoy it now.
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12/16/2009 - caeleric wrote: 90 Points
Hmmm, what to say about this wine. Opaque ruby in the glass, with a nose of ripe black fruits and creamy vanillin oak. The mouth was moderately dense with little to no perceptible tannins and a general lack of acidity that gave it an overall impression of flabbiness. The finish was a little over the top in its sweetness. This would certainly stand out in a blind tasting but it lacks the structure and stuffing to warrant a higher score. A little disappointing for such a highly acclaimed vintage.
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12/7/2009 - collinb227 wrote: 94 Points
wow! Awesome! WOTN
Not much nose initially, after airation it much improved.
Vanilla is HUGE on the palate, slight oak, strawberry cotton candy
super smooth. this is drinking really well. loved it
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12/5/2009 - enovino wrote: 88 Points
Way too ripe for my taste. Full-bodied with lots of dark rich espresso and ripe fruit - a touch too sweet for me. Also a bit hot. Two weeks later, had the 2002 Caymus regular label cab, and it reminded me of how good Caymus can be. i thought 2007 was supposed to be a great year...
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12/3/2009 - JOsgood wrote: 89 Points
Really tight right now with prominent tannins. Needs time to soften but should round out nicely.
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12/2/2009 - ewsds wrote: 95 Points
Wow, was this some great juice! Juicy candied fruit on the nose; sort of reminds me of cotton candy, in a good way. My impression of the nose was that this would be too jammy, and it almost is, but it walks the tightrope beautifully. Mature, sweet Cabernet with an explosion of lively smooth and caressing bright fruit with a nice lengthy finish, without crossing the line into the too jammy territory. I'm glad many thousands of cases of this wine were produced, because I'm going to have to get some more of this wine before it's all gone!
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12/2/2009 - kstoddard wrote: 90 Points
Purple color. Black currant nose. Black cherry and blueberry fruit. Full bodied. Chewy. Nice freshness. Rich caramel finish.
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11/29/2009 - kennyg wrote: 94 Points
Dense, concentrated fruit forward with expresso and cola. Yes, this is over-extracted and not all that complex (althogh some residual tannins suggest a bit of cellar time may be a benefit) but it is drinking wonderfully right now and is a particular crowd pleaser among seasoned drinkers who tolerate this style and particularly among more occasional embibers
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11/26/2009 - JJL wrote: 88 Points
This bottle was a little too sweet for me. Lots of vanilla and oak on the nose, more vanilla, molasses, sweet blackberry on the palate. Quite a bit flabby. Other newbies liked it more than I did. Need big, serious red meat to go with wine.
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11/26/2009 - RobertDwyer wrote: 94 Points
When I first opened this wine, I thought it was just another solid effort from the folks at Caymus. But after it breathed for just a little while I'm thinking this vintage might be a high water mark for Napa Cab. Classic Cabernet aromas of black currant with a touch of vanilla. Perhaps a little nutmeg. On the palate this wine is straight cola in a good way. Hardly tannic at all and it's only 2 years old. I was worried it was going to be a little young, but not at all. Perhaps not age-worthy but I thought this was an outstanding wine. A value at around $55 retail.
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11/22/2009 - gunpwdr wrote: 94 Points
With 3 hours of air. Nose: Vanilla, cedar, blackcurrants, hint of pencil lead. Rich and perfumed, in a good way, but certainly not complex. Palate: Vanilla, plums, hint of licorice, insanely velvety tannins on the attack. Further develops into sarsaparilla and molasses on the mid-palate, totally coating your palate with rich sweetness, but it has transitioned away from fruit. Tannins surge a little, gripping just a hair, but do more to show their amazing texture than any negative qualities. Vanilla and cedar frame the incredibly long finish. Not a wine that I would say has noticeable structure and balance, but the roundness, texture, and new world richness are decadent and delicious. I'll definitely echo what others have said about its current state - this wine is strutting its youthful side incredibly well, however I'm not sure it has the structure to age. Drink now.
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11/20/2009 - djdaqm wrote: 93 Points
CES Lab Wine Tasting #4 (Home): Decanted about an hour before consuming. Fresh, ripe fruitiness on the nose with plenty of blueberry and blackberry. Nice creaminess on the palate as well, with length of about 30 seconds. Drank after a 2004 Lewis Merlot, which was a bit heavier and lush. The Caymus was more fresh, although it had comparable levels of fruit extraction. This is really a solid wine in 2007.
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11/14/2009 - jeff nowak wrote:
i thought this was a pretty good wine 12 vintages ago. what happened?
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11/14/2009 - bacchus wrote: 93 Points
had a taste of this at joe canal's (iselin) this wine is outstanding. nose bursting with fruit. chunky frame. great finish. i agree with gv that it will easily go 15 years and get better every year. the wine begs to be accompanied by a ny strip steak.
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11/13/2009 - vinopa wrote: 93 Points
Dark ruby in color...Wow this is a big wine but very very well made...Nose: Tons of dark fruit along with chocalate and a hint of oak...For such a young wine this baby is open for business!!..Palate: Candied fruit jump on your palate with some cream on the midpalate..Dark chocalate and coffee with a slight hint of oak on the backend..Complex and so well balanced..A great effort by Wagner..This should improve even more in the cellar, I set a few aside for future enjoyment..I cannot wait to get my hands on some special selection cabs...Cheers!!!
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11/13/2009 - Purple Grillz wrote: 93 Points
Braised Pork Cedar Plank with Crystallized Sugar.... this nose of Eggplant Parmesan is just an invitation to the Smoked Pork Cedar Raspberry Party. This wine is scrumptious, Can't wait to try the SS.
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10/31/2009 - knlowery wrote: 93 Points
Great fruit and oak. chewy texture great finish. Alway a favorite we like the style.
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10/28/2009 - djdaqm wrote: 94 Points
Took and consumed at a steakhouse restaurant. Very similar to my previous tasting experience. Showed better after about an hour of aeration and continued to improve throughout the evening. Paired extremely well with the ribeye, and both the food and wine were improved by having them together.
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10/26/2009 - davidandrose wrote: 91 Points
Winery tasting; strong fruit profile but the tanins to let this wine improve and last for some time.
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10/25/2009 - jmannisi wrote: 95 Points
A terrific effort! Decanted it only for an hour. Deep ruby color. The nose is rich of fruity berries. Initial taste is of heat that went up the nose (15% alcohol). This became less apparent with decanting time. A mouth full of cherries and berries but with structured smooth tannins. Only a hint of oak. A most pleasing and very long chocolate finish. Hard to believe but remarkably ready to drink now. You got to try this if you can find it,
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10/24/2009 - SMG wrote: 93 Points
A great bottle for the cost. Surprisingly drinking very well and probably would have been even better if I had decanted it for a couple hours.
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10/23/2009 - Bluedevil99 wrote:
Had at a restaurant, pop and pour. Nose of cedar, dark berry fruit, vanilla, obvious oak. Initial burst of creamy fruit on the palate, with raspberry joining the blackberry I got on the nose. This is surprisingly light on its feet for a young cab, esp. given the nose. Vanilla and cedar on the midpalate transitions to a lingering finish of licorice and hints of moccha with smooth tannins. This needs a little time to come together on the back end, but overall I was surprised by the balance in a wine this young and concentrated up front, and without the benefit of a decant. I'll look for more of this.
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10/16/2009 - KeithAkers wrote: 91 Points
California Night (Binny's Highland Park, highland park IL): nose: sleek and polished nose that is a bit tight, but very good with excellent balance and tones of black and red currants, dark red fruits, oak, cherries, and bits of anise. Excellent depth with a good richness to it
taste: full bodied with a real smooth feel to it. Good supporting tannins and good depth with tones of black and red currants, dark red fruits, oak, and some tones of anise. The tones are very vibrant right now
overall: young, but very delicious. Well balanced and comes off as needing some more time, or a lengthy decant. There is a real attractive dark profile to it that gives it a sort of mysterious quality
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10/10/2009 - wineismylife wrote: 90 Points
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Tasted October 10, 2009 at a retail tasting.
Dark garnet color in the glass, clear hue throughout. Nose of thistle, dark chocolate, a bit of meat and some rich black berries. Rich flavors for berries, mocha, blueberries and black cherries. Light to medium acidity, medium tannins, medium body. Drink over the medium term.
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10/10/2009 - mmurry wrote: 93 Points
Big Reds for Cool Evenings (Farpointe Cellar): The nose is an explosion of chocolate and coffee. There was also a lot of berries - raspberry, blackberry, and currants. The palate was extremely smooth, with lots of chocolate and coffee. It also had dark berries, and an oaky finish.
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10/7/2009 - peeks13 wrote: 87 Points
A Night of Classic Cabernet (9/23/2009) (Wine Discount Center Barrington): Too oaky. Was expecting more.
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10/5/2009 - MiamiWineNovice wrote: 93 Points
Decanted for 2 hours. Nose of bright ripe jammy red fruit, baking chocolate, sugared jelly donut and fresh tilled earth on the nose with same red fruits, leathery and sweet tannins showing on the palate. A little heat on the finish lasting 30 seconds. Second day showed better integrated tannins and less heat. This one lost much of its jammy, fruity nose on the second day but gained a little more elegance, showing scorched earth, olive tapenade and cedar box on the palate. Overall, very nice - a quality Cab from an outstanding vintage. Well balanced with nice complexity. A little time will improve this one a bit but this is very approachable now. Highly reccomended.
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10/3/2009 - Meembo wrote: 90 Points
Undeniably smooth, but it's hard to get past the overwhelming vanilla from start to finish. Just too much oak here, but it still tastes good!
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9/22/2009 - tabularasa415 wrote: 92 Points
Classic Rutherford style. Deep cherry, plum, leathery Rutherford dust. Definitely a big boy, but still shows that amazing balance of tannin to acid to body. Definitely needs some time to mellow, but the bottle called out to me and said, "Open me now, you won't regret it." And I didn't...
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9/21/2009 - SMG wrote: 92 Points
Drank this at Ruth's Chris in Charlotte.
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9/6/2009 - rcmcb wrote: 91 Points
Very ripe, extremely solid wine. Surprisingly open for such a young wine. A lot of dark fruit. I plan to sit on these for a while and see where they go. 91 with definite room to improve.
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8/21/2009 - NineteenEightyTwo wrote: 98 Points
Tasted at Caymus, in their normal lineup. Had a lot of 2007 Cabernet that trip and this one stood out above all the rest. The best wine I have ever tasted from Caymus, including Special Selection. In fact this was tasted alongside the 2006 Special Selection and blew it out of the water. Massive aromatics, with seemingly endless nuance. An enormous mouthfeel, with flavors expanding and unfolding in a continuous progression. Nearly interminable finish. This was the first time I felt convinced that 2007 was a really special vintage. Look forward to revisiting this again and again.
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8/17/2009 - JJL wrote: 91 Points
Same as last bottle
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8/14/2009 - JJL wrote: 91 Points
Bell peppers, cherry, oak and some lily on the nose. Sweet, blueberry, blackberry, strawberry jam and vanilla. Amazingly no heat. Straight-up, monolithic fruit bomb, but very drinkable. Served with steak cooked on the grill and paired well. This will be a steakhouse best seller.
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8/7/2009 - Eduhersp wrote: 95 Points
Great bottle of wine for < $60. This great wine needed minimal decanting time, approximatelly only 30 minutes.
Nose: Right out of the gates you can identify the classic Caymus nose. There is a definite cedar box component along with touches of oak and dark berries and chocolate. I could smell this all day. Wow. From the nose you can determine that this wine is very balanced and very civilized since the oak component has been tamed quite a bit when you compare this vintage to previous ones.
Taste: Huge wine but you cannot tell that it tips the scales at 15% alcohol. Silky smooth and with great balance. There are touches of oak much in the style of previous Caymus bottling but it is integrated without the "sugary" or over oaked taste taste that the previous 2006 vintage had. The finish brings it home very nicely. I was not clocking the finish but I would guess around 45 seconds. Who notices these things when you are enjoying yourself? This wine is so delicious that imy friends and I enjoyed it alone but you can pair it with your favorite red meat. Several of my friends commented on how smooth and civilized this wine is. What a treat. I would say that this is the best non-special select Caymus I have tried so far and would not hesitate to buy more real soon.
Cheers!
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8/1/2009 - djdaqm wrote: 94 Points
Cabernet Time - Silver Oak & Friends (Wine Exchange. Orange, CA): 2007 is one of the best vintages in California and this wine shows it. The nose is powerful. Notes of vanilla and caramel without being jammy. Silky smooth mouth feel. Power house in concentration. Awesome balance. This is a great value ~$50 price category. It reminds me of the question: Why pay less?
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7/31/2009 - Hazeo wrote: 88 Points
Silky and dense. Alas very ripe and quite jammy to me, with an off-putting taste in the finish.
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7/23/2009 - pinotwinelover wrote: 93 Points
very approachable with silky tannins and a bit more forward than some of the cabs in the past from caymus. I think this will score well as it has the ripeness that appeals to so many now days.
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6/28/2009 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 90 Points
K&L Charity Event. Nose of cassis, black cherry fruit, touch of wood, more of the same on the palate, medium/big body of cabernet flavors fill the mouth, very good but not great, medium/long flavors on the finish.
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