2013 Eisele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (20) Avg Score: 95.8 points

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  4/13/2024 - learningandenjoying Likes this wine: 98 Points

  D15; G5; 4.5*+9.5+5+9*+9*+5+4.5*=97+ Initial taste showed this was very close to ready to drink, but chose a light, short decant to open it for immediate enjoyment, which it did. It is hard to express the shear deliciousness of this wine. For the first hour it was nearly impossible not to drink the entire bottle, but knew we had to pace it for the steak to come. Some Cabs really need a nice steak to shine, but this one was probably at its best just sipping throughout the evening. It was so balanced and so good it needed nothing. My main downgrade would come at about the 3-hour mark when it seemed to start losing some of its perfect balance and started to show more of an acidic edge. So, take it from me and go ahead and drink it up in the first two hours and forget trying to draw out the pleasure late into the evening! Some sensory notes: crushed rocks, minerality, blackcurrant (cassis), ripe blueberry (bilberry), graphite, faint iron dust, light oak, sage, cedar, some dark cherry, tobacco, leather, well-integrated tannin. Super balanced. Beautiful. This wine just kept giving and giving. As Parker stated in his October 2016 review when he scored it 100 points, "The wine is off-the-charts great." He is sometimes over the top in his praise and scores, but in this case he is absolutely correct. You are soooo lucky if you have this wine.

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  2/2/2024 - Gregmonroe wrote:

  JD Friday Wine Group - GA Host (Dinner) (City Club FW - Oak Bar): Tasted blind - great, complex nose of cherry, menthol, anise; decent tannins on the palate, with high acidity, and integrated oak. Host decanted 4-5 hours before dinner. From magnum. Slightly hot, but loads of cherry and rhubarb on the palate. Very good wine - I called a Washington state Cab. - 10+ year old Quilceda.

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  11/20/2023 - csimm wrote: 94 Points

  This was great, but it has a decent tannic spine that really keeps everything on the straight and narrow throughout most of consumption. Blackberry seed, unripe purple plum and black cherry, charcoal, grey rock, and pulverized granite, this 2013 carries a gravelly scaffolding that holds full expansion of flavor back. It has nice acidity and tension, and is seemingly quivering for action, but it may take another decade to truly come into form. Check it out well past 2030. Good potential here.

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  11/3/2023 - Gregmonroe wrote:

  JD Friday Wine Group - GA Host (City Club FW - Wine Room): Tasted blind (from magnum) - deep and dark in the glass. Sweet red fruit on the nose, with wood influence. Dark cherry and blue fruits on the palate. In a primary phase, with no tertiary development. This one is all fruit at this point (at least from a magnum). Medium + tannins. I called a 10 years or less CA cab.

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  4/19/2023 - rylanreynolds wrote: 97 Points

  Really enjoyed this one with its blue fruit profile, violets, earth, smooth tannin, medium acidity.

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