2002 Schrader Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon RBS Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 94.5 points

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  7/29/2022 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Nose of crushed raspberry and blackcurrant
  
  The mouth is rich but terribly digestible and supple for its 14.7°. The juice is enormously dense but slender, with a nice underlying acidity and an integrated woodiness. The whole seduces with an ever-bright fruit on a background of vanilla and spices. The wine coats everything it touches without feeling tired with sapidity and great pleasure. The finish is like the wine, intense and with a magnificent length on the sweet spices.
  
  It's excellent, and the pairing with a nice matured meat was relevant.

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  5/1/2015 - tp096255 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I'm not going to do a big old note on this one because it might be slightly flawed, not sure. This is the only bottle of this I have ever tasted and after 3 tastes via Coravin I come to the same conclusion that it's either too old or it has a little funk a-la-Bordeaux (esp in the nose).
  
  It just doesn't smell, taste or finish like a typical Schrader. It's not bad, just not very inspiring. The 93 points is a little generous.
  
  The nose has more funk than fruit, then the fruit tries to burst through on the palate only to disappear beneath the funky structure in the finish. It's a well-made wine but perhaps well past its prime. Drink it up if you have it.

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  10/12/2012 - cobystilp wrote: 96 Points

  Cab's Seventh of April Club dinner on 9/11/12: This was my penultimate WOTN. It had been opened and decanted for 3 hours prior to drinking. Tastes of macerated cherries. A forever finish that goes on and on and on. It coats the whole mouth (even the roof). Awesome!

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  8/5/2010 - snordhoff wrote: 94 Points

  No notes on this yet? Deep ruby with much of the tannin resolved. Oak is fully integrated. Classic Cabernet flavors with a chewy quality that bodes well for further aging, but I am not sure it will get better. Even the dregs were refined and polished. Very nice.

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