2005 Vineland Estates Winery Cabernet Franc

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 85.5 points

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  10/3/2018 - owr Likes this wine: 87 Points

  From a hot / good vintage and a winemaker that loves Franc, so you must have a little faith it's going to hold up, even 13 years later: licorice, earthy, tobacco, there's even some unexpected notes of coffee and sweet dried cherry.

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  2/11/2018 - MTC7915 Likes this wine: 81 Points

  Drank wile paired with red wine braised beef shanks. Supposedly past it’s prime based on other reviews and recommended drinking years; but very smooth and not minerally. Nose was not too pronounced however. For the price paid in ‘07, I wish I had bought a couple more back then.

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  8/4/2017 - Secret Beach Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This note is pretty much for OWR, as it's unlikely anyone else has any left in their cellars.
  10 years to the day this wine was served at our wedding, my wife and I cracked open one of our 3 remaining bottles this evening. Paired with a fat, grilled ribeye, blue cheese and an arugula-tomato salad; the wine was exceptional. Consistent tasting notes to OWR's, with the caveat it began to fade by the last glass. Unlikely the last two bottles will make it to our 25th and 50th anniversaries, but we're more than willing to let them collect dust and find out. This bottle has left us very pleased with our decision to plant 27 Cabernet Franc vines in our Toronto Beaches backyard 4 years ago. Fingers crossed our first vintage this Fall ages as well as this 2005 Vineland.

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  11/4/2016 - owr Likes this wine: 89 Points

  No way you'd have guessed it's age at 11 years old, it was fresh and spicy with cassis, blackberry and tobacco along with hints of cedar and licorice ... a real beauty

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  11/25/2013 - owr Likes this wine: 88 Points

  (Re-Tasted November 2013) ... It's been over three years since last I re-visited this wine and tonight while combing through the cellar for something to drink I found it and thought it an interesting wine to try. I think what I am most astonished about here is the palate, smoky with a touch of woodsiness, good acidity with something herbal creeping in but nothing unpleasant. Taste-wise it doesn't seem to have a lot of fruit, as the smokiness seems to have taken over, but there's plenty to get excited about as it is smooth and ends with hints of anise and a touch of leather. On the nose we have some smoked-vanilla-raspberry, not fresh, but smoked so that the fruit aromas act as an enhancer to the smokiness. The palate seems to continue to smooth and become somewhat of a quaffer that shows some vanilla in the mix and there's a cedary-aspect that continues to resolve itself. It's quite complex and interesting and altogether fun to taste and smell. The thing I keep coming back to is that this 8 year old wine cost a measly $12.95 back when I bought it, and it has withstood more than a wine of that price point should - as someone once told me about a 10-year old microwave I was throwing out - "it doesn't owe you anything". I still have a few bottles in my cellar , I may not write them all up because I am certain this holiday season the rest of them will be coming out of the cellar - it's drinking very well right now ... okay, I might hold one back just to see.

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