2005 Dalla Valle Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (34) Avg Score: 93.8 points

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  12/18/2023 - Geaux Tigers Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Picked this up for a steal on the secondary. PnP and ready from the start.
  
  Smoke, spearmint, dill, black licorice, black tea, bouts of incense, fading fruit, but hints of black cherry and cola compliment it all. This is past peak for fruit lovers but well into a long plateau of secondary / tertiary drinking. For my palate, these seem to peak at ~15 yrs as I like a little more fruit than today’s showing. YMMV

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  7/3/2023 - sean7711 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Moving a bit past its prime (or at least, my "prime" preferred drinking window). 92.5 if rounding up

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  1/1/2023 - ipp Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Needed air. After four hours, fruit emerged from this well structure, balanced, beautiful cab. Loved it.

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  5/11/2021 - M DU VIN Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Deep inky color with very ripe fruit.

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  1/1/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Beautiful Cabernet nose of sweet cassis, blackberry liquor and eucalyptus. Bought off the mailing list years ago, this bottle is in perfect condition and showing quite youthful and it really didn't fully open until the third hour after decanting. It's powerful with a voluminous velvety texture and rich flavors of blackberries, cassis, mocha and licorice. The tannins on the finish are still firm which gives the wine a tautness that I like a lot in Napa Cabernet with age. Eucalyptus and ripe coffee notes rounds things out. Well-stored bottles of this have years of development ahead and while it's very ripe with an alcoholic edge, it still works well with a charred steak tonight.

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