2015 Schrader Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  5/27/2024 - DawgByte Likes this wine: 97 Points

  A stunning old school Napa cab, full bodied, rich and brooding with a frame that will last for years. There's complexity everywhere on this wine with rich black fruit and dark cherries, combined with cedar tobacco, leather and anise across the nose and palate. I particularly enjoyed the mid-palate grip provided by rich, but not overbearing tannins. The finished went on and on, just a real treat. This is a top tier Napa cab and easily identifiable as a Beckstoffer To Kalon!

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  10/27/2023 - beau11 wrote: 96 Points

  Rich cassis and blueberry. The wine has years to go with ample fruit.

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  6/10/2022 - csimm wrote: 92 Points

  2016 Myriad Elysian, 2016 Myriad Empyrean, 2015 Schrader To Kalon, 2015 Schrader GIII
  
  Less candied than the 2015 GIII but just as spouting and party-rocking, the To Kalon is saved from the Vegas cocktail world by way of a nice injection of Oakville soil and darker-fruited blackberry and black raspberry flavors. Otherwise, the red fruit spends most of the time taking a front seat and doing everything it can to spark the flavor hound sensors of the palate. Vanilla and cedar come to the party, shortening the finish a bit. Still working some things out. Hit this up in a few years in hopes it sheds some of the vanillin booze and develops some additional nuance.

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  4/11/2021 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 93 Points

  No notes. Decant for a few hours tasted along the way. Nice wine, beautiful cassis, minerals but a bit too sweet and a very short finish.

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