2007 Bryant Family Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (53) Avg Score: 95.9 points

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  4/12/2024 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Deep ruby red color. Black raspberries, blackberries, licorice and hints of chocolate and earthiness in the nose. Black currants, blackberries, black cherries, plums, and blueberries in the flavor with a hint of minerality. A complex wine, full bodied, well balanced with nice acidity and a long lingering finish. This was served with the dessert course which worked but this may have scored even higher with the main course. beef or lamb.

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  1/12/2024 - ipp Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Beautiful nose of fruit and earth - blueberry and truffle, but well integrated … reminiscent of a winery at harvest. After 2 hours of decanting, good firm tannins, but well integrated. The nearly 15% alcohol is very well integrated, but obvious. On the palate, great structure, well balanced, blackberry on palate. Good acitic, but not too much … great with steak. Long finish.

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  12/10/2023 - Handy1 wrote: 96 Points

  Pop n poured. Dark fruit plum cassis. Nose was almost overwhelming stewed fruit but over time calmed down. Full bodied behemoth. Didnt think alcohol was too noticeable as other notes mentioned. Probably a quick decant would help for next ones

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  12/5/2023 - RockinCabs wrote:

  A massive monolith of a wine at this point as others have pointed out. Plum, fig and black cherry fruit held together by a lot of unintegrated oak. Very high in detectable alcohol as well. It really represents the excesses of the era, and why wineries started pulling back from this style.
  
  Critical scores were so far overblown for the 2007 vintage in Napa, and this is an example of those excesses.

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  12/3/2023 - englishman's claret wrote:

  Fundamentally uninteresting; fat, polished, oaky, plummy, cassis nose. Really hot palate. ~83 points

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