Decanted, with first pour after 15 minutes. Paired with pork chops and grilled sweat potatoes. Right up front you can tell this is well made. Leather, oak, pencil lead, some spice on the finish. After an hour this was excellent. Tannins are well integrated, promoting a solid finish. Black raspberry, dark cherry, dried plums... several layers of complexity. This may have a few more years to develop.
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The color is now a paler, browner garnet as this wine begins to show its age. Lovely aged cab with fine grained tannin and cassis, cola and tobacco on the palate. A little later leather and dark chocolate made an appearance. Layered and balanced; a lovely Cab.
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This one just keeps getting better! Dark fruit and cedar/smoke on the nose, stewed dark cherries, cola, vanilla bean, with a hint of strawberry on the palate, some heat at first but with a little time to open up that dissipated and some slight floral notes arrived. Full mouth feel and medium to long finish. Really lovely; glad I have 2 more.
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8/16/2019 - joesi16 Likes this wine:
PNP. Cork fell apart but the wine didn't. Nice old napa cab for a steak.
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2/12/2017 - mgl wrote: 80 Points
Past it's prime - may be corked.
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12/23/2015 - MCrawford Likes this wine: 91 Points
Decanted, with first pour after 15 minutes. Paired with pork chops and grilled sweat potatoes. Right up front you can tell this is well made. Leather, oak, pencil lead, some spice on the finish. After an hour this was excellent. Tannins are well integrated, promoting a solid finish. Black raspberry, dark cherry, dried plums... several layers of complexity. This may have a few more years to develop.
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11/9/2014 - SSGibson Likes this wine: 91 Points
The color is now a paler, browner garnet as this wine begins to show its age. Lovely aged cab with fine grained tannin and cassis, cola and tobacco on the palate. A little later leather and dark chocolate made an appearance. Layered and balanced; a lovely Cab.
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9/13/2014 - SSGibson Likes this wine: 91 Points
This one just keeps getting better! Dark fruit and cedar/smoke on the nose, stewed dark cherries, cola, vanilla bean, with a hint of strawberry on the palate, some heat at first but with a little time to open up that dissipated and some slight floral notes arrived. Full mouth feel and medium to long finish. Really lovely; glad I have 2 more.
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