2005 Dragon's Hollow Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 84.7 points

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  10/9/2012 - yofog wrote: 83 Points

  Now, this is acceptable. Clean, if a bit green. Palatable, and surprising in that they aren't going for a very new world style here (or maybe they wanted to but it's too cold there (rep said it was sort of near beijing).

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  4/4/2011 - glen@wooden.com wrote: 85 Points

  My first Chinese wine. Light in nose, color and flavors. Nice.

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  2/12/2009 - enjoyfinewines wrote:

  This wine is coming from what experts from China and abroad deem as the most ideal ecological zone in China to grow top quality wine grapes according to one of its owners, Broadbent Selections. I tasted this wine during my studies at the Professional Culinary Institute in early 2009 while we were learning about wines from Asia. SIGHT: clear, bright, orange/red, pink/orange rim. AROMAS: it's clean and relatively young, but smells like mature antique teak wood (in wine speak: volatile acids like acetone, varnish aromas that can appear with modern ultra-clean winemaking), very ripe dark cherries, damp earth, ripe potatoes, leather, raw dark mushrooms. FLAVORS: medium bodied, bone dry, crisp red apples, crisp red cherries, cranberries, green bell peppers (which sometimes is a Cabernet Sauvignon marker), earth, tobacco. They need riper fruit and as the winery matures, their wines will probably continue to improve just like so many other wineries and wine regions that were not normally known for wines but have now become well known and respected. ALCOHOL: 12.5%.

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  5/22/2007 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 86 Points

  Broadbent Wines (LIWSF, London): 12.5%
  Quite a pure clean cabernet sauvignon nose. Very green on the palate, though it’s not especially tannic. Definitely needs more time. Very Good?

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