Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 91.4 points

  • Wow, this wine must be in its apogee, or at least dang close to it. No signs of decline or being past peak. Instead everything has settled in to be right where it should be. Delicous, good fruit, balanced, long finish, and velvety tannins.

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  • Wow this was magical as Washington cabs go. Aged beautifully, leather and earth balanced with dark fruit sweetness.

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  • Significant wine, even at this age. Depth with some tannic notes, but dominated by dark fruit and structure. Shows some eucalyptus early on, then the fruit and earth take over. Let's see what day 3 brings....
    Day 4: Dense and round with medium dark fruit, the tannins having integrated nicely. Still a big wine, but showing some subtlety beneath. Quite good.

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  • Classic Woody Cabernet. The wine was still vibrant, but 15 years on it shows silky integration and balance. Some of the higher or more in your face elements Rick Small's cabs are know for are now in the background and the overall experience was completely elegant. Slight bricking on the edges - but still looking youthful. Depending on your storage practices this wine still has some life - but my suggestion is to drink relatively soon - I would imagine it may start to fade in the next 24-26 months.

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  • The 2000 Woodward Canyon Artist Series Cabernet Sauvignon is yet another example of why we love this winery and its winemaking style. It’s a big, bold, complex wine, where the intensity is perfectly balanced and smooth with a very long finish. Dark red in colour, it was showing just the slightest age on the rim. Blackberry, black cherry and plum dominated the aroma while the flavour was a beautiful combination of fruit and wood with secondary notes of spice, earth and leather. Drinking brilliantly right now, it showed no sign of breaking down. www.advinetures.ca

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  • Supurb 24 year old Cab.

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  • This cab is aging well. Still has at least 5 more years before peaking/turning corner.

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  • shared with pat at selkirk manor. this wine has put on some weight since last tasted. would probably have developed even further with additional exposure to air. excellent cab from a state that is better known for its pinot. also, the herbs and green vegetables are more typical of california cab. will have to do some homework to find out if there are any purchased grapes here. very well made wine, none the less. crystaline sediment was adhering to the bottom of the cork. needed 30 minutes to open. better than last bottle. dark fruit, herbs, green vegetables, green pepper, olive. has more to go. full, rich mouthfeel. smooth, well integrated. enjoyed greatly.

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  • shared with pat at selkirk manor. opened this bottle based upon community consensus regarding longevity. the wine is showing beautifully. made in a very clean and light style. discernible cabernet fruit along with hints of neighboring vegetation. may not improve much with further time in the bottle but certainly not at risk for fading any time soon. will wait 6 months for the next one.

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  • Surprising light given the alcohol content. Well balanced but I would prefer more weight and some more fruit. In contrast to Vinsant I don't believe that more time in the cellar will improve this wine so I will be drinking my last bottle soon.

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  • Great wine. Nose of spice and oak. On palate, tremendous balance of dark dusty fruit with loads of green vegetables and a cherry spearmint finish.

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  • Color fading around the rim gave up this wine in a blind setting as an older one. Brown sugar and caramel mixed with cherries, blackberries, and currants on the nose. A young tasting wine with some big bright fruit still kickin'. Well integrated currants, cherries, plums, spice, olive, some light green peppers, and caramel on the palate. Many years left, wish I had more.

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  • surprisingly young, actually- still rather primary dark cassis and plum notes, richly spiced with oak. juicy palate presence, nice persistence. balanced, tasty wine, for those who tolerate prominent wood influence.

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  • Definitely some time left in this bottle, though drinking well now. Better on Day 2 for sure, so make sure to decant. The word that comes to mind is rich. Silky and rich, with chocolate, dark black fruit, a complex palate. Long finish, plenty of tannic structure. Some sediment. Good stuff.

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  • Drinking really well right now with no decant time. Fleshy and ripe but with nice balanced tannin/ structure. New world but classy. Would venture to say a good life ahead (ours was from magnum). I'm always happy with Woodward.

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  • This was great. Right in its perfect drinkability window. People were elbowing each other to get the last glasses from the 1.5 l bottle, which was gone in an instant. Wonderful example of a great Washington State Cab.

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  • I grabbed this from the cellar without checking my past notes on it. Just as I had noted in 2007, this needs some more time.

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  • We decanted this wine and it seemed to make a big difference to the good. Dark with blackberry and plum flavors and a long finish. It will be good for many more years. Delicious!

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  • Another in the series of Friday night wine tastings with the No Spits. This time we tried a five vintage mini vertical of Woodward Canyon Artist Series Cabs. The 2000 was the best of our flight with delicious deep black fruits and beautifully integrated French oak. This one was smooth, silky and rich with a long finish of black fruit and vanilla. It was especially good on the second night. Very good to excellent.

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  • Still quite young, with some prominent oak and tannin, but there's a great raw material here and this wine improved significantly by the second day. Distinctively Washington cabernet. I would either decant the hell out of it, or wait another 5 years before opening another. Very good wine with a lot of potential.

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  • Blackberries, currants, cedar, dark chocolate, and spicy american oak on the nose with a rich deep palate. This wine initially seemed a bit flat and heavy handed on the oak side but it improved with air over two hours and was drinking quite nicely at the end of the evening. Very nice.

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  • This wine is deep ruby-red, clear with a dark hue to it. Aromas of black currant, spice and a vegetal note on the nose. Medium bodied, with plenty of acidity and flavors of plum and red currant tingle the medium finish.

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  • This is a delicious wine with big red and black fruits on the nose and palate with oak influences that are well integrated. (chocolate, vanilla, smoke) This is a much more typical Washington Cab than the 2001 Cadence Tapteil that Mrs. Greenblanket and I tasted with it. Watch out for sediment because this was definitely unfiltered and unfined.

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  • Deep ruby. Cassis and bitter chocolate on the nose and palate. Tannins were a little coarse last year, but now they're much finer. Much silkier and more balanced as well. I think Tanzer underrated this wine. I haven't tried the Old Vines cab yet, but I'll be interested to see how it compares to this. This wine will be better in a couple years, and should drink well until 2015.

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  • Burnt rubber, simple nose. Blackberries, herbs, caramel and toast ... nothing

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