2005 Justin Vineyards & Winery Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (85) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  5/20/2016 - cwojcieszyn Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Deep coloring - smooth tannins - drank well for the age - jammy and smooth - delicious

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  8/22/2014 - rhpolk wrote: 88 Points

  Over aged. Musty smell, but still drinkable. Not flawed, just past it's window. Most of the fruit is gone.

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  4/3/2014 - fritza wrote: 89 Points

  I did not experience bricking with this bottle that others have described. It has a musty nose and at first I was concerned it went bad. But I was pleasantly surprised with dark berry fruit and chocolate on the palate. The tannins have mellowed and it has a long finish on mid palate. Justin never disappoints.

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  6/10/2013 - KevinTucker wrote: 88 Points

  Slightly past prime territory, but still agreeable...needed some time to open up. Dark fruit and slight chocolate flavors from earlier tastings were mildly muted, but the body is still very nice.
  
  This is a solid QPR performer, but nothing special.

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  5/26/2013 - joncohen wrote: 90 Points

  Opaque purple, v little bricking; light in the glass, but clinging to the edges with long legs. On the nose: tarry oak, black cherry/raspberry fruit, vanilla, a more subtle bell pepper component. On the palate: initial hit of big red fruit (raspberry, blackberry), with plenty of vanilla/oak flavors before mid-palate acidity emerges, then some coffee and cigar box notes that linger for a medium long finish, over which the dark fruit reasserts itself at the back of the throat. Label says 14.5% alcohol, though from the extraction I would have guessed more. Tannins semi-decently integrated, but I daresay this could have gone a few more years in the cellar while they continued to soften up.
  No doubt about it, this is an archetypal big CA cabernet, doing exactly what those wines are supposed to do. I don't go for this style every day, but sometimes you want a 800 lb gorilla to go with the rib-eye steaks you're throwing on the grill; on those nights, you could do a lot worse than this bottle.

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