This is just what you would hope a relatively obscure Cab from a great year and a great vineyard would taste like. Delicious, elegant and complex; fruit is still strong with fine tannins and a long finish. Followed over three hours and kept getting better, I'll decant my next bottle. No rush.
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4th Saturday Brown Bagger (T&L's): Double blind. Really nice fruit- mostly dark- with cassis and black currant, though there are red elements as well. Has a subtle herbal undertone. Dark fruit on the palate with a long finish. Very nice.
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P/w 1 hr decant. Clear, deep/dark purple color. Intense Cab nose. Big, bold, clearly shows great fruit source, Beckstoffer/Rutherford. A testament to fine CA Cab, nothing like Claret. Seriously good stuff with perfect balance/integration, long tannins/finish and truly gorgeous drinking. Long legs, big body, wonderful stuff. Nothing off.
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Pull from the cellar, opened, aerated and decanted for 2 hours. First taste reminded me of dried fruit. This wine is about at the end of it's prime life. The wine certainly had very mellow and integrated tannins at this point. The wine ended up tasting more fresh and of baked black fruits and was a decent bottle of wine.
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11/9/2020 - Hamersly Likes this wine: 94 Points
This is just what you would hope a relatively obscure Cab from a great year and a great vineyard would taste like. Delicious, elegant and complex; fruit is still strong with fine tannins and a long finish. Followed over three hours and kept getting better, I'll decant my next bottle. No rush.
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4/27/2019 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points
4th Saturday Brown Bagger (T&L's): Double blind. Really nice fruit- mostly dark- with cassis and black currant, though there are red elements as well. Has a subtle herbal undertone. Dark fruit on the palate with a long finish. Very nice.
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8/19/2015 - Barry Notes Likes this wine: 93 Points
P/w 1 hr decant. Clear, deep/dark purple color. Intense Cab nose. Big, bold, clearly shows great fruit source, Beckstoffer/Rutherford. A testament to fine CA Cab, nothing like Claret. Seriously good stuff with perfect balance/integration, long tannins/finish and truly gorgeous drinking. Long legs, big body, wonderful stuff. Nothing off.
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3/12/2014 - CamWheeler wrote: flawed
Dinner at Cafe Lyon: Corked.
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12/18/2011 - smarquardt wrote: 88 Points
Pull from the cellar, opened, aerated and decanted for 2 hours. First taste reminded me of dried fruit. This wine is about at the end of it's prime life. The wine certainly had very mellow and integrated tannins at this point. The wine ended up tasting more fresh and of baked black fruits and was a decent bottle of wine.
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