2018 Scarlett Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 94.4 points

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  1/6/2024 - Cuellar's Cellar Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A very nice wine. Has everything you want from a cab. You can tell the difference from the reserve to their other cabernet. This wine can be held alot longer. Cheers

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  10/13/2022 - Cuellar's Cellar Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Incredible Wien. Opens up nicely. Needs about an hour of decanting. The fruit comes out and explodes in your mouth. So good. Cheers

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  6/19/2021 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Great night with friends and four wines: Scarlett Reserve, L Barton, Vieux Chateau Certan and Kosta Brown Pinot.
  
  Decanter for 3 hours beforehand which was not enough as the wine was blocked from expressing itself - not with a tannic or structural means rather muted like many of the ‘18s I have tasted however at the four hour mark it started to showcase wonderful dark fruits that grew with complexity and enjoyment as the night went on. No formal notes as there were two of us for the four wines (wives polished off the KB while we focused on the other three. Would hold for 2-3 years before opening again. Even if you bought a stupid number of these like I did, hold for a min of 1 more year.

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  5/29/2021 - pakabear Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Blackberry, blueberry, plum, cinnamon, clove, anise, asphalt, great balance, light to medium body…. This is really good but I expected more based on other reviews and comments.

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  8/24/2019 - csimm wrote: 99 Points

  Mike Smith 2018s & 2017s - Myriad, Quivet, Scarlett, Becklyn, and others (Saint Helena): Equally dark as the regular sample, the Reserve fires-off with a serious streak of minerality and a tannic backbone that immediately frame-out and control the electric fruit just waiting to explode. On the attack is a measured and chiseled delivery, with plenty of concentration and skillful extraction to create both a highbrow and a sensual shape. The Reserve behaves much like the Elysian does with its elevated locked-and-loaded application as well as conveying its succulent fruit core with appetizing appeal. Not as overtly flamboyant as the standard Scarlett at the moment, this Reserve offering ultimately impresses for its focus and knife-blade accuracy of execution from front to back. Finishes like a 6’2” German runway model’s skintight skirt; precise, stimulating, and mesmerizing.
  
  This instantly reminded me of the beguiling 2015 Scarlett Reserve (which was a 99-100 point wine for me last time I had fun with it). The 2018 has a near-identical profile, with just a bit more spine-forward attack in its current state. This will need a few years in bottle before it will produce a like level of extravagance as the 2018 standard Scarlett now. 96-99+ points for the Reserve.

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