Yolanda's Birth Month Wines (Chagrin Falls): This is drinking well. Seems at or maybe just past peak. The nose has cassis and leather. On the palate, this is smooth. Tannins are integrated. Enough fruit has outlasted the tannins. Cassis and cherries. Some depth. Nice finish. Not a wine I am familiar with, so I wonder what it was like young.
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Purple in the glass, black fruits and notes of cacao on the nose, tannins were gripping at first and mellowed over an hour, elegant with black fruits, berry, plum, vegetal notes, leather, earth and wood. Classic example of a CA Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Nose: wow some caramel and blackberry jam, and some hay and barn yard. This had nothing when I opened it and it keeps opening up with more character. Now I don't want to drink it.
Taste: no tannins, blackberries, some tar, light caramel and pepper.
I'm glad I waited to open this one.
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Utterly fantastic fruit forward CA style Cab Sauv. At $45 it's a bit on the pricey side but there are plenty of more expensive wines that are not as good.
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One of the best last bottle purchases in recent memory. Perfectly integrated fruit and tannins and just a smooth drinking cab right out of the bottle that went perfectly with some steaks. Wish I would have bought more.
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10/2/2016 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 88 Points
Yolanda's Birth Month Wines (Chagrin Falls): This is drinking well. Seems at or maybe just past peak. The nose has cassis and leather. On the palate, this is smooth. Tannins are integrated. Enough fruit has outlasted the tannins. Cassis and cherries. Some depth. Nice finish. Not a wine I am familiar with, so I wonder what it was like young.
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1/30/2016 - WineCenturyAZ Likes this wine: 91 Points
Purple in the glass, black fruits and notes of cacao on the nose, tannins were gripping at first and mellowed over an hour, elegant with black fruits, berry, plum, vegetal notes, leather, earth and wood. Classic example of a CA Cabernet Sauvignon.
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6/19/2015 - ewasowicz wrote: 95 Points
Nose: wow some caramel and blackberry jam, and some hay and barn yard. This had nothing when I opened it and it keeps opening up with more character. Now I don't want to drink it.
Taste: no tannins, blackberries, some tar, light caramel and pepper.
I'm glad I waited to open this one.
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6/3/2014 - kietkopelli wrote: 92 Points
Utterly fantastic fruit forward CA style Cab Sauv. At $45 it's a bit on the pricey side but there are plenty of more expensive wines that are not as good.
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4/13/2014 - RickyP Likes this wine: 92 Points
One of the best last bottle purchases in recent memory. Perfectly integrated fruit and tannins and just a smooth drinking cab right out of the bottle that went perfectly with some steaks. Wish I would have bought more.
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