1999 Abreu Cabernet Sauvignon Madrona Ranch

Community Tasting Notes (35) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  4/7/2024 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Last tasted five years ago Still deep red purple color and drinking beautifully with lots of black and blue fruits in the nose and flavor. Blackberries, blueberries, currants, licorice with hints of earthiness and espresso in the nose. Black currants, blackberries, plums and chocolate with hints licorice in the flavor. An elegant wine, full bodied, very well balanced, great mouthfeel with nice complexity and a long smooth finish.
  
  Still very youthful and primary. Delicious and deep, but tannins are rough enough that I would have preferred this with food.

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  11/29/2019 - Dalex Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Interesting wine. Consumed over 30 hours. Essentially it drank perfectly fine upon opening but wasn’t exactly outstanding. Somewhat restrained and mid-weight with decent fruit but not the broad cassis and dark chocolate flavors with plumb fruit that I typically get from these wines. This led me to believe that the wine should be left alone for a day. Earlier this day I came back to it and it seemed to fatten up a bit. More fruit and spicy flavors were present. But still it wasn’t ready until about 30 hours after opening when it seemed to have a window of maybe 3 hours where it was a gorgeous wine. Happy to have this little experiment to share with readers. I probably sampled this wine 10 times over 30 hours! My 92 was at its best and 90 or 91 on the other occasions.

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  10/20/2019 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  What can be better with a burger off the grill than a twenty year old Abreu cabernet... Drinking beautifully with plenty of dark fruits in the nose and flavor. Blackberries, blueberries, currants, and plums with chocolate, licorice, and hints of espresso. An elegant wine, full bodied, with nice complexity and a long finish.

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  2/23/2019 - passion4wine Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Wonderfully well integrated with fruit, herb, spice, and just a hint of green olive. Tannins are very well resolved, mild acidity but it packs a punch of ripe fruit. Never guessed this could be 20 years old—it's got life left, but don't wait. Drink it now because I believe this is at its peak. As the hours passed the wine revealed a very mild vegetal note on the nose—green pepper, asparagus—not a flaw, just an observation after hours of oxidization. Love this wine.

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  2/19/2019 - Vinomnivore Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Still very youthful and primary. Delicious and deep, but tannins are rough enough that I would have preferred this with food.

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