As with other vintages, I just do not understand how this wine continues to receive scores like it does. What immediately comes across the palate is the sweetness found in every bad cab ever made. After that it’s just flabby and unremarkable. It’s the kind of wine you’d expect to be poured at a big event that you could scoff down with your overcooked steak.
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From a magnum, 30 minute decant. Classic Pride reserve cab embodying a textbook definition of mature mountain fruit. Red berries, chocolate, peanut butter cup, cigar box and a touch of cedar. Pride’s reserve wines are among the most under-valued wines in California and period.
Have been through a case of this over the last 5 years and has gotten progressively better. I drink a lot of wine from this region, a lot of 2000s, and I couldn’t name a better bottle for the value from this vintage. Wine begins to open after a 30-45 minute decant. Some may argue with me, but I believe it is at peak - screaming Ducru right from the decant. Fruit shines through. In the glass up against the light you can see it is a twenty year old but the nose is strikingly powerful for a 2000 and could easily pass for a Bordeaux half it’s age. On the palate the wine shows the classic cedar and black current notes every left bank Bordeaux fanatic loves. I’m not sure it necessarily gets “better” from here but I easily see this wine drinking at this level for another decade. Drinking this makes me excited to think what the 2009, 2010, and most of the more recent vintages will look like in another decade which are arguably even of a higher quality than this.
2013 Beau Vigne Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
5/3/2024 - wdcwine Does not like this wine:
As with other vintages, I just do not understand how this wine continues to receive scores like it does. What immediately comes across the palate is the sweetness found in every bad cab ever made. After that it’s just flabby and unremarkable. It’s the kind of wine you’d expect to be poured at a big event that you could scoff down with your overcooked steak.
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2008 Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
4/17/2024 - wdcwine Likes this wine: 96 Points
From a magnum, 30 minute decant. Classic Pride reserve cab embodying a textbook definition of mature mountain fruit. Red berries, chocolate, peanut butter cup, cigar box and a touch of cedar. Pride’s reserve wines are among the most under-valued wines in California and period.
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2000 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
5/18/2020 - wdcwine Likes this wine: 96 Points
Have been through a case of this over the last 5 years and has gotten progressively better. I drink a lot of wine from this region, a lot of 2000s, and I couldn’t name a better bottle for the value from this vintage. Wine begins to open after a 30-45 minute decant. Some may argue with me, but I believe it is at peak - screaming Ducru right from the decant. Fruit shines through. In the glass up against the light you can see it is a twenty year old but the nose is strikingly powerful for a 2000 and could easily pass for a Bordeaux half it’s age. On the palate the wine shows the classic cedar and black current notes every left bank Bordeaux fanatic loves. I’m not sure it necessarily gets “better” from here but I easily see this wine drinking at this level for another decade. Drinking this makes me excited to think what the 2009, 2010, and most of the more recent vintages will look like in another decade which are arguably even of a higher quality than this.
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