2018 Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Estate

Community Tasting Notes (56) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  3/24/2024 - Charlie Carnes wrote: 86 Points

  This is fine, decent C/S. It could possibly improve with some more cellar time.

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  3/23/2024 - HFLED Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Very well balanced classic-ish California cab.

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  2/17/2024 - Dobrie10 Likes this wine:

  90 mins in the decanter yielded a pleasing, though young, wine. This has the stuffing to get through the end of the decade in great shape. We followed this fine for 4 hours and it was consistently better than the last sip. Fresh blackberry, cassis, oak, pencil savings, and firm long tannin. Next bottle in 2030.

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  2/14/2024 - lazy Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Decanted off sediment and carafed for about half an hour afterward. Dark clear ruby. Smelled black cherry, a tiny bit of CS cassis, leather, vanilla, tobacco, pencil shavings; the taste was intense on the fruit but with the other elements showing in the background. Semi-resolved tannin and good acidity balance the fruit, not rounded but not young medium bodied mouthfeel; on the whole it feels pretty seamless. Medium-plus finish on the fruit that eventually gets down to pencil shavings.

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  10/28/2023 - Wine G Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Excellent for the price, it’s like a rich Bordeaux. If I was drinking this blind I could guess a more opulent style Bordeaux , it is not overdone by any means. Hitting the spot especially in the $50 range
  
  Edit: Day 2 this is an alcoholic hot mess on the nose, get a rubbing alcohol, the palate tastes fine but I cannot get past the nose. quite a difference from day 1.

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