This wine has aged well. From the opening, it was smooth, beautifully balanced with a lovely nose, modest tannins and acidity and lovely combination of flavors in the mouth. Continued to open over 2 hours with added complexity. This is not a ‘big’, ‘fruit bomb’ cab but rather a quite elegant, balanced approach.
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Big improvement over first day from heavy, sweet, dark-fruited, medicinal stew to a mellowed palate of those same flavors with savory acid and some earthier, slightly meatier notes. Quite pleasant, eventually.
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Opened to celebrate the life of Master winemaker Eric Dunham. A tribute to a talented man.
This bottle is everything I look for in a Cabernet. The bottle was well integrated, drinking well and I think it is at or near it's peak. Great Cabernet nose. Good dark fruit with a vanilla barrel streak some spice and tannins. A full mouth wine with a solid finish that had some complexities that evolved. Decanted but the wine drank well from the start and started to fade about 2 hours into the night.
A little lower acidity (higher Ph) made it a good wine to enjoy with some Merlot-Parmesan cheese, rosemary crackers and fresh bartlett pears.
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12/30/2022 - bgdau Likes this wine:
Picked up at auction. Tasty and pleasantly surprised that it is in a prime state.
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12/25/2022 - joekroe Likes this wine: 90 Points
Vanilla and blackberries continue to keep up with the developing tertiary flavors. This wine is in a fun place to drink.
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2/24/2018 - PDXTom Likes this wine: 91 Points
This wine has aged well. From the opening, it was smooth, beautifully balanced with a lovely nose, modest tannins and acidity and lovely combination of flavors in the mouth. Continued to open over 2 hours with added complexity. This is not a ‘big’, ‘fruit bomb’ cab but rather a quite elegant, balanced approach.
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9/1/2017 - Necowine wrote: 88 Points
Big improvement over first day from heavy, sweet, dark-fruited, medicinal stew to a mellowed palate of those same flavors with savory acid and some earthier, slightly meatier notes. Quite pleasant, eventually.
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10/27/2014 - ttpearse Likes this wine: 93 Points
Opened to celebrate the life of Master winemaker Eric Dunham. A tribute to a talented man.
This bottle is everything I look for in a Cabernet. The bottle was well integrated, drinking well and I think it is at or near it's peak. Great Cabernet nose. Good dark fruit with a vanilla barrel streak some spice and tannins. A full mouth wine with a solid finish that had some complexities that evolved. Decanted but the wine drank well from the start and started to fade about 2 hours into the night.
A little lower acidity (higher Ph) made it a good wine to enjoy with some Merlot-Parmesan cheese, rosemary crackers and fresh bartlett pears.
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