2005 Consilience Cabernet Sauvignon Camp 4 Vineyard Santa Ynez Valley

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 84.8 points

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  7/28/2011 - kenhoeve wrote: 79 Points

  15.9% abv, oh boy, here goes. Pop and pour at cellar temp and I am immediately struck with the nose. What is that? Something is amiss here. Could it be? It can’t but it is… my nostrils are decidedly not having hairs singed. Not to worry, along with the lack of volatility comes a shy, “don’t look too close I smell of black currant just like I should”, nose that adds the oak any cabernet would be proud to reek of. This as it turns out is just the ruse you expect would provide the dream of hope, of random oenological salvation, that maybe, just may-be, this bottle is the Cinderella of the ball, the Gonzaga of years gone by, mired in geographic obscurity somewhere south of Napa. And you sip, daintily, despite your particular male hormone levels and this manliest (ok, not really) of all grapes, while a subtle and tensile cringe hibernates, ironically, just past your liver. And as it passes your lips no crescendo builds from this pensiveness… but that is only because you are a little more concerned about the potential spontaneous combustion that could accompany the absolute searing heat that just so happens to be rather fore of your presently not malignant soft-palate. Yes, the lips are alight with something slightly less useful than butane depending on your habits. No matter, as judgement resides primarily on the palate. Unfortunately this wave of heat, volatility, distilled chile if you will, does not stop prior to the chompers. I suddenly sense, while realizing I likely won’t explode from this tonic, that there is indeed an herbaceousness, and probably too mysterious darkness, from this wine. And you know what? All that would be great to this point. It may be a subpar experience, but we’re not all wearing pants like John Daly, so surely, things might work out. Sorry, they don’t. Subsequent to the palate heat and weak fruit, it turns out now there IS a crescendo. It just so happens to combine herbaceousness (fair bit of dill), and a lot of burn. I swear, the heat builds until all I can think of is fresh jalapeno julienne. Granted, there is some cherry and currant in there, but… how can you not be distracted by native Baja vegetable in your Cab?

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  10/17/2010 - sbfireman wrote:

  Never got the chance to taste - went very quickly.

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  9/22/2010 - ob2s wrote: 85 Points

  16.5 alcohol...hot ! Brambly in a Zinfandel way. Wood is your friend.

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  7/14/2007 - peternelson wrote: 88 Points

  Pinot Palooza: Big dark frt and a bit overblown; full, syrah-ish; lots o’ oak too. Not my style.

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