Still has a lot going on. Had a slightly sour, astringent note when first poured, but decanting took care of that fairly quickly. What remained was mostly rich dark fruit flavors, with some more savory (leather?) notes. Quite fun to drink a 16-year-old Cab with so much life.
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Dark garnet color, full bodied, throwing light sediment that makes the wine opaque, excellent dark fruit flavors, soft smooth tannins, needed 1 hour to breathe allowing the flavors to open up and tannins to soften. Time now to drink this wine. Fully matured.
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This bottle was a little bit "off", showing just a bit too much oak while the fruit was slighlty muted versus our last bottle. Perhaps this one was very slightly corked, but no wet cardboard smell at all and really I think this bottle was just a bit dried out.
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12/11/2019 - Mark3548 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Still has a lot going on. Had a slightly sour, astringent note when first poured, but decanting took care of that fairly quickly. What remained was mostly rich dark fruit flavors, with some more savory (leather?) notes. Quite fun to drink a 16-year-old Cab with so much life.
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3/9/2018 - jeginmt Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dark garnet color, full bodied, throwing light sediment that makes the wine opaque, excellent dark fruit flavors, soft smooth tannins, needed 1 hour to breathe allowing the flavors to open up and tannins to soften. Time now to drink this wine. Fully matured.
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2/12/2014 - sonodoc Likes this wine: 92 Points
Excellent! Still has a decent amount of dark red fruit, with a little mocha and tobacco. Smooth, with muted tannins.
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7/5/2010 - winejnky wrote: 87 Points
This bottle was a little bit "off", showing just a bit too much oak while the fruit was slighlty muted versus our last bottle. Perhaps this one was very slightly corked, but no wet cardboard smell at all and really I think this bottle was just a bit dried out.
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2/26/2010 - Sonny Absolute wrote:
One of my favorite Reynolds Family vintages.
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