1997 Cosentino Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  6/24/2023 - oldwines Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Double decanted at 3pm and taken to a friend’s house for dinner. Rich effusive nose with vanilla, leather, cedar, hints of chocolate, black cherry, blackberry and plum. Classic old school Cali Cab. Decent length and good complexity and texture. Excellent with grilled steaks.

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  5/24/2016 - oldwines Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Served at my daughter's wedding from Imperial, decanted at 3pm and drunk from 7:30-10 pm. Very youthful in appearance and flavor. Still pretty primary. Yet very well balanced with good rich mouthfeel some tannin an effusive nose and goos fruit remaining.

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  12/23/2013 - RudyRangeLegend Likes this wine:

  My wife opened this bottle to drink with some friends with chips and salsa! She apparently didn't notice the 1997 Reserve on the label...hopefully they enjoyed it...

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  2/12/2013 - oldwines wrote: 92 Points

  Bought from a clearance sale at the winery last summer for $30 and shipped through Hurricane Sandy. I'm not sure how this wine has been treated but it seems to fare pretty well. The cork on opening was dry and lacked much staining making me wonder if it was upright for an extended period before I got it, but the bottle itself was stained by sediment on one side indicating for most of its life it was stored properly. The wine showed some age in its color with brick red edges in the glass. The nose was mostly oak/vanilla, tar, cedar and black fruit. It has nice body, mouthfeel and balance. Flavors evolved with breathing and after 3-4 hours there was a lot of black plum, black currant and chocolate. This could have been a problem bottle but wasn't bad in the end. I'm sensing potential for a good deal of bottle variation though...

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  1/27/2013 - oldwines Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Dark Garnet with no bricking and thick slow moving legs. Decanted and drunk over 4 hours. Nose is initially strong on oak, cassis and black plum. Later you get cedar, leather, coffee and chocolate as well. Lively on the tongue with some remaining tannin but very smooth on the whole and very mouth-watering. Flavors include the fruits in the nose as well as vanilla, blackberry jam and tea. Moderately long smooth, rich finish lasting 20-30 seconds with a strong chocolate element which I love..

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