1993 Clos du Val Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 88.3 points

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  12/31/2023 - live2uncork wrote:

  Corked. Musky and wet newspaper

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  3/13/2023 - Radar & Mattie Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A great wine from the early days of Clos Du Val and Bernard Portet. Still holding up very well with plenty of fruit in the bottle. I had a 1994 CDV cab the week before, but I gave the 93 a point higher rating. A wonderfully balanced wine with outstanding flavors made it a hit with my wine group.

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  5/14/2022 - PierreBrusso Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Nice, smooth, sweet old oak, integrated fruit. Forrest floor.

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  2/21/2022 - PIntag wrote:

  My brother picked this up at the Napa tasting room recently and threw it into a double-blind lineup.
  This looked like it had a good deal of age. It also tasted old and tired, with kind of a sweet-ish oxidative note. Clearly well past prime. Thinking that nobody brought anything older than the 2002 Beresan Stone River (Cabernet-Syrah blend that I contributed to the tasting), that was what I guessed this was.
  I know 1993 was not a great vintage in Napa, but this just was not enjoyable at all at this stage, assuming this is a representative bottle.

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  9/4/2021 - Djwinelady wrote:

  Taste way better than smells- delicious BUT I’ve had like 15 tastings

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