1997 Abreu Cabernet Sauvignon Madrona Ranch

Community Tasting Notes (43) Avg Score: 95.7 points

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  2/7/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Blind, 3 hour decant. Medium garnet on the glass.
  
  Floral nose along with oak and dark red fruit. Palate came across as primarily old black fruit, oak and slight tannins. It had good weight and for certain, good winemaking but just didn't feel like it was rocking as well as it should have. Don't know if this was an airtime issue or not? But it seemed like I should have liked it better, came across as somewhat flat and one dimensional.

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  12/3/2023 - englishman's claret wrote:

  Big, broad, dark-fruited, slightly rubbery nose, fat and flattering. Feels hot in the mouth and it's still oaky. Not my thing.

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  12/2/2023 - RockinCabs wrote: 97 Points

  California Wine Weekend; 12/1/2023-12/3/2023 (Mos Eisley Cantina & Waterhouse Restaurant): Nose: Blackberry, cassis, graphite, turned loam and leather. Just a bit of a lavender and herb note. Palate: This is rich in the mouth, but less so than the Bryant. Giving black fruit in layers, and nice floral and gravel notes in between. Finish: Penetrating black fruit notes, cigar, loam and lavender.
  
  I loved the fresh garden notes that intertwine with the sweet fruit here. It is culty, but the Ric Forman influence can be seen as it has the most Bordeaux like aspect here.
  
  The 1997 flight was prepared as a slow ox for about an hour before the tasting began.

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  10/30/2023 - Ulises759 wrote:

  Amazing, drank next to a 2017 Valbuena. Preferred this one

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  10/30/2023 - mick978@gmail.com Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Superb vintage of a superb wine. Blew a 2017 Valbuena out of the water.

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