2003 Neal Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Fifteen-Forty

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  1/17/2024 - Grape_ape Likes this wine: 94 Points

  As noted in other notes, cork is indeed fragile... came out in pieces and crumbled, had to decant through a screen. Wine quality unaffected.
  
  This was killer, great nose of red and dark fruit, tobacco, leather. Blackberry, cassis along with bordeaux-esque notes of pencil shavings, and tobacco. Surprising still pretty tannic. This was delicious, and while no reason not to drink now, I think this will hold for quite a bit as well.

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  12/17/2023 - danscellar wrote: 94 Points

  Dark fruit, a good bit of leather and tobacco. Very nice smooth tannins. Be gentle with the cork, it was pretty fragile.

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  5/2/2021 - JERB Likes this wine: 93 Points

  The years have done well on this wine! Tonight it was beautifully integrated, elegant, subtle and yet sublime. The nose gave herbal notes with some dustiness and a hint of oak. The palate was primarily red and blue fruits with a wonderful long finish. It was the perfect foil for filet mignon done sous vide then grilled. Fabulous!
  
  It was decanted for three hours. If you have them - enjoy them, but don't wait too much longer.

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  12/8/2019 - wiscgrad wrote: 96 Points

  spectacular aged napa cab. bot recently from the winery. the nose so complex. herbs and some earthy. on the palate, a mix of dark red fruit. still quite lively. really impressed

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  4/20/2017 - Alfaro wrote: 95 Points

  Stellar, this wine performed incredibly well at a Riedel wine dinner, balanced, well integrated, vibrant, ripe and substantial enough to stand up to a well charred mid-rare tomahawk steak!! Drinking very well right now and will probably consume the rest of my bottles this year.

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