2001 Paul Hobbs Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (44) Avg Score: 95.4 points

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  12/24/2023 - rinnocenzi Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Beautiful wine drinking great but you can hold for another 5 years or more

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  11/5/2023 - Elkcims Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Double decanted, filtered and slo-ox for 30 minutes and drank over 3 hours. Medium to full bodied, blackberry, black cherry, cassis, chocolate, tokalon spice. Vibrant freshness, with noticeable yet supple tannins giving way to a polished silky finish. Paired well with roast leg of lamb. Purchased from Brentwood/Benchmark last year - cork and fill were perfect.

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  9/5/2023 - capacious Likes this wine: 94 Points

  drink up, beginning to downhill, first sips were best, did not hold up

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  7/22/2023 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Extremely rich nose which expresses all the Californian exuberance but which remains at the same time on a very Bordeaux classicism: bright black fruits, graphite, cherry brandy, elegant oak and earthy aromas.
  
  The palate is much finer and more tactile than the nose suggests. Silky touch, dense juice but worked more on the length than on the intensity in the mouth. There is a nice acidity and we quickly forget the 14.7° of alcohol because the wine turns out to be sapid. It's complex, peppery and earthy. However, the wine does not have the depth that impressed me on the To Kalon 2002 from Schrader that I drank last year. It is built on finesse, with a beautiful finish, explosive on black fruits and cedar, on a salivating and saline length.
  
  Excellent.

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  7/3/2023 - RockinCabs wrote: 97 Points

  This wine was consumed over two nights in a To Kalon Horizontal/Vertical of BTK from different producers and different vintages. The Hobbs was a standout.
  
  Nose: Layers and layers of blackberry, black cherry, blueberry, eucalyptus, tobacco, cigar box, and green pepper. Just a gorgeous dark fruit and classic To Kalon spice notes.
  
  Palate: This is a massive and graceful wine with some patina of age setting in. This is in a great place now with an elegant silky palate feel that impresses with black cherry, dark fruit, mint, spice and sweet plum and berry notes. Hints of ginger root, crushed herbs and anise. Very well balanced.
  
  Finish: This is a very long finishing wine with an inner mouth perfume that enhances the whole experience. Dark fruit and a beguiling array or tobacco, anise, leather, allspice and cassis in the finish.
  
  This is an astonishingly good To Kalon Cabernet. Every one of the great markers of the vineyard that you want is there, and the silky texture, deep fruit, nuanced spice and mint notes are in perfect balance. A masterpiece from Paul Hobbs

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