2009 Jones Family Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 93.6 points

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  1/13/2024 - Somm David T Likes this wine: 96 Points

  This 09 is damn beautiful after nearly a four hour decant but it is still fairly youthful.
  
  It is ruby, lush, gorgeous, ripe fruits of; blackberries, black raspberries, black plum with skin, dark cherries, plum, hues of purple, blue fruits & raspberries, poached strawberries, black licorice, mixed, dark berry cola, steeped black tea, dry crushed rocks, limestone minerals, dry top soil, dry herbs, hints of eucalyptus, dry clay, dry tobacco, new leather, spice, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon & vanillin, withering red & dark florals framed in violets & lavender, beautiful round acidity, beautiful; balance, tension, structured, smartly polished finished that lasts minutes.
  
  Still needs another 5-8 years to show its best self.
  
  The Jones Family vineyard is located off Bale Lane in Calistoga and was planted to all five Bordeaux varieties by David Abreu in the early 1990s. Heidi Barrett made the wines until 2008, and Thomas Rivers Brown now makes the wines.

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  11/23/2019 - PHIL74AU@ICLOUD.COM wrote:

  Great

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  2/21/2014 - Uglypinga Likes this wine:

  wow this was tight last time and now its even tighter. huge fruit loads of tannins and all kinds of structure but so young its almost too much to drink. Let them sleep.

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  8/26/2013 - jonnyoro wrote: 94 Points

  Opened... No decant... Had a glass... This wine was infinitely better on day 3. Infinitely.

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  6/5/2013 - Uglypinga Likes this wine:

  This might be my favorite 2009 so far. The nose is intense, with red berries, coffee, baking spices, and a little oak. The palate is just as powerful and full of bright berries, cassis, great acid and some savory notes. Clean and focused if tightly wound. Delicious now, but with a hell of a future. Excited for the two remaining bottles.

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