1999 Renaissance Cabernet Sauvignon Vin de Terroir

Community Tasting Notes (27) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  12/23/2022 - Sabishop wrote: 89 Points

  Still great after all these years in the cellar. Very nice..very smooth. Still some nice fruit. Decanted for an hour or so. Had with roast beef.

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  1/20/2021 - rhit wrote:

  Best bottle of this yet, and my last. Ending on a high note, after lots of variation with other bottles, this one had it all: rich and dark fruit that was wonderfully tertiary, with leather and balsam notes. Plenty of structure and freshness here - enough for a bold bolognese. A passable impersonation of a Tuscan sangiovese, actually. Though this particular bottle seemed like it had years to go, given my less-than-stellar experiences with the others, I’m happy to have opened it when I did.

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  6/10/2020 - prism wrote:

  Drink by 2020 in my cellar; 3/1/2020-7/8/2020: No what other bottles have been, this is maybe a couple of years past its prime. An Old World style, now with many tertiary notes. I recommend drinking these within a month or two: the wine is fading.

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  5/3/2020 - pryby Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Not as stunning as the earlier bottles. This one leaned toward soy/tamari and a woodsy complexity but crowded out the beautiful red fruit the other bottles had shown. Finish was a bit thin consistent with the others.

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  11/27/2019 - JWG wrote: 93 Points

  Similar to the 2018 bottle rather than the 2017 bottle we opened. Still a big, outstanding wine, but not as spectacular as it was 2 years ago.

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