1999 Andrew Will Cabernet Sauvignon Champoux Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (24) Avg Score: 88.9 points

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  5/15/2021 - jviz wrote: 91 Points

  Served blind to me. Medium purple with fairly deep extraction, some legs on the glass showing a hint of alcohol. Comes across as both ripe and a little green at the same time. Tannins are still resolving, but the finish is long. Nice wine, thanks Nutty08

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  5/15/2021 - Nutty08 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Dark crimson color, minimal bricking. Surprisingly muted nose. Candied red fruits, still rather primary with mostly resolved tannin. Shows some age but seems younger than 22yrs. Some dry tannins on back end. I have to think this was a little fuller and more nuanced in the past—but still quite enjoyable now.

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  4/3/2014 - bablues wrote: 92 Points

  It is interesting to see how a wine might go into a dumb phase, as the notes from 2008 - 2011 all state that the wine is fading, but then the more recent notes express a very different experience. I am with the the more recent crowd in believing this wine has plenty of life left in it. It was a little tight when first opened, but after about 30 minutes the fruit is bursting through. I thought the acid and tannins weren't to pronounced at first, but now the wine is bright with wonderful cherries and blackberries. The finish is long and still somewhat dry. I have tasted and own more Andrew Will wines then any other wines, and I have been tasting the Champoux wines from 1999 - 2010, and this is right there with 04, 05, 06, 08, 10. The 03 and 07 are on another level IMO. One left of the 1999 and will save for another vertical of the great Champoux wines of AW.

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  1/24/2014 - cybergod Likes this wine:

  In contrast to some of the recent tasting notes on Cellartracker, this bottle was anything but over the hill: immense fruit and lots of tannic structure going on in this wine. So much life ahead - wish we'd waited another 5 years or so to open this last bottle. Chris Camarda is truly one of the greatest crafters of Bordeaux varietal wines in Washington State.
  
  This wine was shipped directly from the winery into a private cellar, where it was stored under optimal conditions for the last 13 + years - wonder how much some of issues others have had recently with bottles being over the hill had to do with provenance?

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  1/29/2013 - GSW wrote: 90 Points

  Our last bottle and seemed a bit more elegant than my note from 2010. Still a pleasure to drink.

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