1995 Bryant Family Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (34) Avg Score: 95 points

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  1/6/2024 - Ex-Ray wrote: 92 Points

  Still garnet and opaque, with prominent cassis aromas and flavors. Probably slightly past its prime but still excellent.
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  4/22/2023 - jimcopland wrote: 95 Points

  Delicious. What was a brooding fruit bomb at 11 has softened into a velvety treasure at 28, with a panoply of red and black fruits, remaining tannin, vanilla oak backbone, and cinnamon spice. Perfectly complementing dry aged T-bone, mushrooms, and a berry medley. May be on the down slope, but the decline unlikely to be precipitous.

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  9/2/2021 - rcg62 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Nose was mind blowing, came across even as I decanted. Palate soft, nice fruit, but in my mind didn’t match the nose. No super rush to drink but it’s past it’s prime-prime. But a terrific and class wine still.

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  8/26/2020 - cnichelson Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Not as powerful and overpowering as other notes. This bottle had a somewhat muted nose of vanilla and dark berries. Very smooth on the attack with oak melding well with the dark plum and soy notes. No reason to wait, but no great hurry I thought. With tri tip and pesto garlic bread and a tomato watermelon salad/salsa kinda deal I like to serve with tri tip so maybe all these sort of dumbed the wine down.

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  10/29/2018 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 90 Points

  Nose is bright red, opulent, ripe, red cherry, sweet strawberry jam. Heavily oaked although there is good fruit on this. Not nearly as brutal as Harlan or other modern Napa producers but also without the sense of terroir and earth-driven development of say Dominus of comparable vintages. Vanilla and balsa for sure. Palate dry and a little wound up. First glass of wine in almost a month so score is possibly biased upwards. Hot asphalt. Red velvet cake.

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