1999 Renaissance Cabernet Sauvignon Première Cuvée

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  10/18/2023 - Howard-Oakland wrote: 92 Points

  Delicious, decanted for 3hrs, lots of fruit, did not hold up the next day

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  10/21/2022 - johnnylaw1222 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  great fruit and acidity. verging on jammy but not overly fruited. Delicious

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  8/1/2022 - James Kim Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Stood up for 1 week then decanted off sediment for 4h then back ol into bottle for restaurant. Drank w Ben and Mantre. From memory. Lovely currents, dark cherries, cassis, bark, leather, and iron. Elegant texture. Nice acids on a medium body. Old school winemaking with lovely balance and elegance. Drinking well now but definitely in a long plateau

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  5/8/2022 - dubdub wrote:

  This is benchmark Renaissance for the era. Flint/iron on the nose, dark fruit in the mouth with great minerality and the characteristic wet stone/flint note on the mid palate. This still has plenty of grip to keep going for a long time.

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  12/23/2021 - z_willus_d wrote: 96 Points

  There' is no mistaking a Renaissance bottle of Cabernet from a certain range of decades; the blood/iron, red earth, and mineral driven terroir is ever present in these wines. In this aspect, to me, they seem unmistakable, nearly unchangeable. What does change from bottling to bottling (sometimes bottle to bottle) is the amount of defect that compounds upon a wine, whether it be oxidation (storage concerns), TCA, some or the other organism squeaking by; and then also, there is the impact of the wine in terms of flavor and intensity married to grace and length. So, while all these wines taste like fruit from the same mother tree, there are certainly prize fruits that drop from the tree that outshine their otherwise prizeworthy sister/brother brood. That was the case with this particular bottle, the first I've tasted of this particular vintage/bottling. Over three days, it really didn't develop a lick. Just sheer power, length and grace woven into that familiar Renaissance 90's something terroir. It was a near perfect bottle and a joy to drain start to finish.

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