2002 Bryant Family Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (60) Avg Score: 94.4 points

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  12/30/2023 - MLR Likes this wine: 95 Points

  On the nose some spice, lavender, maybe blue berries and a bit of tar/tobacco or old leather. In the mouth, fully integrated tannins (of course), spice, a Smokey essence that lingers for some time.

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  10/14/2023 - sdr wrote: 89 Points

  This is one of those wines that has no technical flaws but just fails to impress. Nicely composed and mature. But fruit is slightly muddled and the wine lacks energy. You can drink all night long but you’ll struggle to remember it in the morning.

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  6/16/2022 - soyhead wrote:

  nose - liqueur
  mouth - blackberry, boysenberry, serious berry fruit explosion with cocoa and chocolate intermixed. Still primary at age 20, has staying power. Punch you in the face wine.

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  5/27/2022 - Ex-Ray Likes this wine: 97 Points

  At home, with pork chops braised in red wine. Still garnet and opaque, with slight ruby edges. Opened at 5 PM, served at 8 PM, finished at 11 PM. The wine evolved. At dinner, after three hours in the decanter, it was nearly perfect...lots of fruit, almost pure cassis, with a slight dusty/earthy component. Very viscous fruit, tannin well in the background. 98-100 points at that time. At 11 PM the fruit had faded slightly and lost some complexity and the tannin was more noticeable. It was then a 94. So, this had a crescendo-decrescendo path over five hours. On balance a 97, but this says to me: open and decant a few hours ahead, then enjoy over a couple of hours before it starts to fade. In my opinion fully mature, drink over the next few years.
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  5/21/2022 - galewskj wrote: 94 Points

  Luis' group goes to Kenwood without him (again) (The Kenwood): Double decanted 6 hours prior. Drank a small glass over an hour. Blueberry pie stands out the most. There's also earth, vanilla and a bit of alcohol. This seems a touch extracted but you also can't help but admire the concentration, especially from a 20 year old California cabernet. I feel that the overall flavor has not yet peaked and this wine will taste/smell more complex with further aging. But the alcohol is peaking out right now, and I would worry that it will increase with further aging.

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