1992 Philip Togni Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (131) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  3/30/2024 - SpenceP wrote: 97 Points

  Continues to be stunning! No change from the bottles of 3/3/2024, 6/2/2023, and 1/14/2923, so, rather than repeat myself, I'll just refer you to the full descriptions there.

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  3/3/2024 - SpenceP wrote: 97 Points

  I really love this wine. Stunning even immediately after opening-- blueberries, black tea, black cherries, pomegranates, black olives, a hint of tannin, and toasted walnuts, with wonderful richness and immediacy, and a strikingly long and rich aftertaste. Over the next hour and a quarter, blackberries, orange peel, fruitcake, cocoa, black plums, roses, a touch of fennel, and a flash of red apples all joined in, as the aftertaste got longer and longer with a distinct note of raspberries a little before the end. This is just gorgeous. [Tasted over not quite three hours from the Jancis Robinson glass. I gave this bottle about two weeks upright to allow the sediment to settle out.]

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  2/12/2024 - ekorn Likes this wine:

  This bottle was a bit wilder on the palate (perhaps a bit of brett) than the last one I opened, but still showing amazing depth and complexity. It a classy wine drinking very well now.

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  12/21/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points

  Holiday Champagne Gala (Wilmette Harbor Club): Tasted at gala alongside 1997. Firm from start-to-finish making it seem slightly austere, but with good+ depth and power. Some richness on finish. At its peak.

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  9/25/2023 - Cailles wrote: 96 Points

  No notes taken. Three 1992 Napa wines side-by-side. All three displayed that the vintage is currently in an amazing spot: open, intense and expressive, highly layered with a good portion of primary fruit mixed with tertiary aromas, herbs and minerality, soft and round but with good tension and good freshness. The Caymus Special Selection (97pts) was the most layered and exciting wine with lots of spiciness. But I think this will be even better in 10 years when it will be more tertiary and lose a bit of the quite intensive fruit aromas. The Togni (96pts) was the most Bordeaux-esque in the line-up, so clear and clean without any of the excess the Caymus still has. This bottle wasn‘t quite as sharp and layered as the last one a few months ago (rated 98pts) but only got better with air and was reached its peak on day two. The Eisele (94pts) had some signs of decline on the nose but was drinking well on the palate, tertiary the core but with enough ripe fruit to still be exciting.

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