2019 O'Shaughnessy Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  4/22/2024 - Rasmussenbrent Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Great bottle but needs time. Give it 3-5 years yet

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  3/2/2024 - wineotim Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Dark and inky blueish fruit. Aroma is mostly muted. The wine is nicely focused and concentrated with ripe black cherry fruit, smooth texture, and mild mineral notes. Needs a lot of air time if opening now. More structure and firmness than the Napa bottling, as I was expecting and hoping for, but make no mistake this is not a heavy or overbearing wine. Needs time to fill out and unravel.

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  2/15/2024 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Deep, dark reddish-purple in color; almost opaque. Full, forward & fragrant nose of dark fruit aromas of cherries, blackberries & cassis with overtones of earthy/dusty, floral notes of violets & herb notes, minerals, spices, graphite, dark cocoa & a hint of vanilla/oak in the background. Full bodied with a very good concentration of still developing, well balanced & smooth textured, rich, ripe dark fruit flavors of cherries, blackberries & plums with spices, cocoa, herbs, minerals & vanilla/oak. Lingering finish. Drinks quite well at present with decanting & extended airing but will develop further with additional aging. A classic & solid Howell Mtn. Cabernet well worth acquiring.

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  11/8/2023 - Francophile1 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  If you like ripe fruit forward well made California Cabernet, this is the wine for you. Year after year, this wine performs consistently well and is a huge crowd pleaser. While it drinks great young, it is very primary. I would prefer drinking it with > 5 years of age on it.

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  11/7/2023 - davidandrose Likes this wine: 93 Points

  2 hr decant. Muted bdx nose w a new world twist; hint of mushroom and, earth. Softens dramatically over 3 hrs and shows elegance in the rough. You can see that there's something more notable there, but that it needs a little more time.

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