2012 Seven Stones Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  4/14/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Pnp'd into a decanter and enjoyed small glasses all afternoon over about 3 hours, then through dinner and after for about 2 hours more, so a total amount of air of 5 hours. Dark/opaque magenta/purple in the glass, nose of graphite and beautiful florals.
  
  Pnp....juicy, liqueur like dark red fruit. Silky, sweet cassis notes with a high glycerin component and great acidity throughout. The only drawback, ever so slightly tight tannins on the back end. 95+
  
  1 hour in......the palate grows even heavier, the back end tannins even out some. 96+
  
  2nd hour....more of the same, everything now in balance. Smooth, round tannins to go with the great fruit which seems to be mostly red/black plum, 97-97+ then.
  
  3rd hour...more of the same. 97
  
  4th and 5th hours.......the wine tones down just a point or two. A very slight herbal note arrives and leaves mostly graphite on the nose by then and the glycerin enriched, high energy fruit calms down, a lot. 95 at the end.
  
  This vintage has many years left ahead for it. Still in a somewhat hedonistic primary stage with just the slightest hint of secondary creeping in when exposed to more air......

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  8/13/2022 - #1Winelover Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Battle of the best: Abreu Cappella 2013, Seven Stones 2012 and Chateau Pavie 2009. All were excellent and I will rate them the same. Brad Grimes is one of the best winemakers out there. His wines are consistent and I really love his style; full-bodied and translucent. Seven Stones 2012 is still going strong. I rated it highly upon release and it has maintained its energy, tension and full flavors. Pavie took the most time to come around and when it did, it was awesome. I don't know if it is in a shut down phase or not because I am not an expert on Bordeaux but it did come around.
  
  It was a fun night!

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  4/18/2021 - mckillop Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Drinking perfectly. Only question is for how long, but the backbone makes me think 10+ years.

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  4/23/2020 - rwstorer wrote: 96 Points

  Drinking beautifully. Similar notes to previous.

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  3/28/2020 - Red Sox Fan Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Two hour decant, then enjoyed over four hours. Mid to heavy weight, intense and balanced, with dark red fruit and for the first several hours not much complexity and a relatively short finish. After dinner we watched Midnight Run, an early DeNiro classic, and by the time the film was over the finish had lengthened with cinnamon, strawberry, citrus, and pine notes. A very nice wine with potential for greatness.

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