Enjoyable overall. Limited fruit left here, lots of nice tertiary flavors as one might expect at almost 30 years. This wine had nice structure for long aging and isn’t quite over the hill but would recommend drinking in the next 3 years.
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Oh, this wine is just so good. What a surprise from a 1995 to still have fruit, body and that signature Clos du Val aroma and mouth feel. Not over the hill today. Drinking just fine! Wish I had another to try again in a year or so.
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This wine is very Bordeaux like and at its age has some wonderful character. Earth, leather, dirt, mushroom and a hint of nut at the finish. Smooth. My second wine with this much age from this winemaker and I have been lucky thus far.
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Just lovely aged Napa Cabernet. Initial nose of leather and moist dirt gives way to a red-fruited wine with fully resolved tannins. Medium weight throughout and not overdone. The vineyard and the winemaker got this one right.
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8/12/2023 - levkb Likes this wine: 92 Points
Enjoyable overall. Limited fruit left here, lots of nice tertiary flavors as one might expect at almost 30 years. This wine had nice structure for long aging and isn’t quite over the hill but would recommend drinking in the next 3 years.
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6/14/2022 - charmin Likes this wine: 93 Points
Oh, this wine is just so good. What a surprise from a 1995 to still have fruit, body and that signature Clos du Val aroma and mouth feel. Not over the hill today. Drinking just fine! Wish I had another to try again in a year or so.
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3/8/2018 - skurtz Likes this wine: 91 Points
At WINO. Faint berry and camphor nose. Cherry, herbs, woodsy. This is a complex mature cab, almost over the hill. A gentle meditation wine.
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12/21/2016 - Aggie12thMan Likes this wine: 90 Points
This wine is very Bordeaux like and at its age has some wonderful character. Earth, leather, dirt, mushroom and a hint of nut at the finish. Smooth. My second wine with this much age from this winemaker and I have been lucky thus far.
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11/5/2016 - saxwizerd45 wrote: 91 Points
Just lovely aged Napa Cabernet. Initial nose of leather and moist dirt gives way to a red-fruited wine with fully resolved tannins. Medium weight throughout and not overdone. The vineyard and the winemaker got this one right.
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