2012 Araujo Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  3/8/2024 - Tomato99 Likes this wine:

  One hour decant and it was absolutely sublime.

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  2/7/2024 - datorr Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Lovely nose. Long finish. Will improve over hours and days.

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  12/25/2023 - jon.siracusa Likes this wine: 93 Points

  2 hour decant.
  
  Nose is decadent and foretells the ripe fruit you are about to savor.
  
  This is a very good Napa Cab, but does not come close to the 2010 Araujo Eisele Vineyard… that was very close to perfection for me.
  
  Nothing really special here, but also nothing to turn you off. Drink now and you won’t regret it, but this could probably use a bit more time in the cellar.

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  11/19/2023 - PDavisMarble wrote: 94 Points

  Another year, a better wine. Still from 375, but it continues to come together it a good way. Still needs 3-5 years to crack open the 750s

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  4/7/2023 - csimm wrote:

  A few days in Napa with fellow CT'r Cristal2000: This was a bottle purchased at the restaurant (Thanks again Bill!). It was very good and, with some time and air (two things that were kinda lacking at the time the bottle came to the table), it evolved into a more interesting creature. We had just opened a 2012 Eisele a couple of days ago and it just goes to show you that proper service – especially with this kind of wine that has some unfolding to do to really show its stuff – makes all the difference. At the restaurant, the stemware was not up to snuff and the 2018 Promontory Penultimate was peacocking a bit more than the Eisele at that time as well. Add palate fatigue from a day of 30+ wines sampled, blah, blah, blah, …and it was a bit of an unfortunate alignment of the stars. To be clear, this was very good, but it didn’t captivate me as much as the bottle we had two days prior (Refer to my previous note on that bottle).
  
  I like having wines at restaurants and all, but there really is something that robs you of the experience of getting to know a wine when compared to being at home. Even if you’re kickin’ it at the French Laundry, there are some distractions that can take away from a wine’s nuances at times. …And if you do happen to find yourself at the French Laundry, the Somm may pour your Promontory into the same glass as your Realm Crane, run away never to be seen again, and then do nothing about it, but not before some other dude drops a whole truffle into your soup, reaches in with his hairy fingers to take it out, and then walks away, again doing nothing more than offer you a passing “Please do enjoy your soup.” Whaaaaat?! STOO-PID!…A story for another day… Ask me how many times I’ve been back to TFL since then…

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