At Jackie Bryks' place in Gardiner, NY. Lots of cassis fruit, but not much complexity. We tasted this in Napa in May ... and it showed much better, then. Ok, but dwarfed by the other wines there.
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Powerful nose of cassis, which almost drowns out the notes of earth and cigar box. Pleasant, mouth-coating fruit-forward cab with a decent finish. Good daily drinker.
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(Capital Grill, Atlanta) Dark purple-red. Nice nose of cassis, blackberry, vanilla, and pepper. Pleasant mouth feel with decent structure and quite nice integrated grainy tannins. Midpalate shows up but does not excite and finish is non-complex and is medium to short in length. Varietally correct and a good value at about $30 retail, but I felt mildly gouged at the 2.5x mark-up at the restaurant; saved by the fact that our table was very happy with this wine and it worked with the steaks.
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9/21/2007 - EMichels wrote: 89 Points
Red Carpet Wine Tasting: Very enjoyable; Good depth; Slightly chewy; Great QPR; Reasonably long
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7/4/2006 - TashNYC wrote: 88 Points
At Jackie Bryks' place in Gardiner, NY. Lots of cassis fruit, but not much complexity. We tasted this in Napa in May ... and it showed much better, then. Ok, but dwarfed by the other wines there.
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4/1/2006 - ruddy wrote: 89 Points
Powerful nose of cassis, which almost drowns out the notes of earth and cigar box. Pleasant, mouth-coating fruit-forward cab with a decent finish. Good daily drinker.
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12/26/2005 - 1800kidney wrote: 92 Points
Tasting at Napa Wine Company; 12/26/2005-12/27/2005 (Napa): Terrific balance and mouthfeel, nice finish, classic cabernet
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10/23/2005 - thomaskeil wrote: 86 Points
(Capital Grill, Atlanta) Dark purple-red. Nice nose of cassis, blackberry, vanilla, and pepper. Pleasant mouth feel with decent structure and quite nice integrated grainy tannins. Midpalate shows up but does not excite and finish is non-complex and is medium to short in length. Varietally correct and a good value at about $30 retail, but I felt mildly gouged at the 2.5x mark-up at the restaurant; saved by the fact that our table was very happy with this wine and it worked with the steaks.
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