2005 Temple Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  2/10/2023 - drummer Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Crushed sweet tarts finely grained tannin with a touch of bitterness in lower palate, mid palate ample luscious dark crushed fruits with hint of chocolate well integrated in the nose, upper palate sweet raspberry smooth acidity, superb overall balance and integration. Vac capped, second day rounded the edges just a little, mid-palate fruits receded a bit offering a different experience just as enjoyable.

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  8/6/2021 - ChaineMatt wrote: 90 Points

  Reading back on other reviews I honestly think there might have been weird production problems. There is inconsistent quality among the reviews. My own experience has been abysmal until this bottle. I still have 3 more in my cellar and I asked myself why am I keeping this when it has been awful every time? So I opened another fully expecting the same experience.
  
  But no this bottle is different. Which makes me think there was something that happened somewhere along the process that ruined only a portion of the production and not the other portion.
  
  This bottle has all the characteristics that the others had in the beginning: complexity, balance, fruit, some wood, excellent nose but high alcohol. The problem was the rest of them fell apart. This bottle is showing extremely well, after 16 years, is that what it took to blow off the problems, or are some bottes just flawed and others fine?
  
  This bottle is starting to fade after an hour but not a lot.
  
  Too many questions unanswered. For now, I will simply enjoy. If anyone still has some, try it.

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  11/4/2018 - thalver wrote:

  I've enjoyed this wine since release, until a bottle about 4 years ago seemed port-like and cloying. Time has helped somewhat. Double decanted and poured, full , rich, a bit raisiny, descent nose, but somehow a bit off. after about 5 hours open, the last sips came into better balance, and it tasted more like a calcab with some age.

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  8/11/2016 - drummer wrote: 89 Points

  seems a bit shut down right now, or possibly waning from peak

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  11/29/2015 - dzal808@gmail.com wrote:

  No rating as I think this bottle might have been flawed. It is just as likely that it is past it's peak. The bouquet was very nice but after decanting it still had a sharp prickly tongue feel. I had a 2008 bottle a few weeks after and it was very very excellent. This was my last 2005 so I will never be sure.

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