2018 Stein Cabernet Sauvignon vom Berg

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  4/12/2024 - Alexnichols wrote: 85 Points

  Love Stein’s wines and the effort underlying this wine, but struggled with this one. Very green and somewhat unbalanced. Going to give the next bottle 3-4 years

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  3/18/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I like the fact that this wine is in a relatively awkward phase; it gives me reason to hope for the future of the remaining bottles. The most delicate perfumes are now withdrawn, and the leading edge of the tannin complex is ground and worn. That leaves a brooding mulch of pencil lead and black berry solids, tiptoe-weighted as ever. The place where a sensation of intense dryness had been is now modulated by minced sage, mushroom, dried mint, and opium. It's a reclined, ideologically fertile object. Given its novelty, I am allowing for a certain prognostic margin of error. Consider drinking another bottle in 2025-26, for parallax. 92
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  24 hours after opening, the final ounces are in a majestic mood. Nervy, pointed acidity, and capillary sap, nakedly impel those established black fruit-pulp and soil sensations. I am curious about the glances of Fonterenza Brunello. The phenolics casually join a lost cohort of amaro botanicals. Also: piney mock coffee—forest foraged—and northern maritime blueberries. I know this wine is still an adolescent because of the structural grape sugar that underwrites the finish.

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  2/24/2024 - breadSheeran wrote:

  My friends enjoyed this more than I did. It was good, certainly, with lots of pretty but bold dark fruit and forest floor, but the overall greenness felt unbalanced to me and the tannins were a bit too tight. I think this may be excellent in a few years.

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  8/9/2023 - vintage_whine wrote:

  riper tones to fruit almost jammy but with piercing pyrazines. modern and almost new world in style but with vibrancy to fruit so most similar comparison might be red mountain cab sauv

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  6/20/2023 - lukeintowine wrote: 92 Points

  Felt a bit riper than the previous bottle. But I guess the previous bottle profited from being consumed over several days. I am going to buy some more.

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