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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.4 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 33 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Tahoe Cellar on 10/26/2023 & rated 91 points: Excellent wine. Beautifully layered with notes of leather, dark fruit and a hint of chocolate. The 2000 still drinking well in 2023. (184 views) | | | Tasted by mckillop on 11/13/2016 & rated 91 points: Second bottle was better than the first. Decanted and let sit for ~2h before drinking. Great old cab! (2487 views) | | | Tasted by mdipietro on 4/16/2016 & rated 90 points: Still excellent
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Drink now, at its peak in my estimation (2789 views) | | | Tasted by mdipietro on 3/27/2016 & rated 91 points: Time to drink... Color still bright, fruit good... Tannins soft. I think it will be downhill from here but very nice for a 2000 Napa cab (2795 views) | | | Tasted by spv on 11/8/2014 & rated 95 points: This was really amazing. From 1.5L. Super well integrated tannins, still a lot of fruit, perfectly in balance. Lots of depth, complexity and finesse. (3818 views) | | | Tasted by jinatnrt on 1/28/2014 & rated 92 points: Finally, a great bottle of well-aged California cabernet! I've thoroughly enjoyed this bottle - all the great characteristics of Cali cab and its tannins very much integrated. Drinking beautifully right now. (3538 views) | | | Tasted by jinatnrt on 1/18/2014 & rated 89 points: Was afraid to open after suffering through two consecutive corked bottles but to my surprise it has aged quite nicely. Tannins were soft and well integrated, and smell of earth has replaced much of its former fruit. Drink now to enjoy this soft cab. (2259 views) | | | Tasted by jinatnrt on 1/10/2014 flawed bottle: slightly corked first bottle. even more slightly corked second bottle :(
these bottles still have lives in them nonetheless although i wouldn't necessarily age them any longer. (1978 views) | | | Tasted by rhanke on 2/3/2013 & rated 92 points: great aroma, fruit, long finish (2742 views) | | | Tasted by rhanke on 4/5/2012 & rated 93 points: great wine (2608 views) | | | Tasted by carsgar on 2/4/2012 & rated 92 points: A little past its prime, but became better the longer it sat decanted. Very little hint of body when first opened, but after an hour began to come to life. By the time we finished (2+ hours), the wine showed hints of greatness with nice taste, very nice nose, and that wonderful Cab body. (2338 views) | | | Tasted by carsgar on 9/27/2011 & rated 92 points: Nice bottle - a little past its prime, but still quite the treat. The wine took over an hour to open up, but after two hours showed hints of body, with a great nose and almost really great taste. Would definitely drink now. (2326 views) | | | Tasted by TwoSmoochies on 2/7/2011 & rated 92 points: wow - i didn't have any last night when my husband opened it. i tried it today and it was very good - a 2000 on the 2nd day?! Still a lot of fruit. (2927 views) | | | Tasted by bluevespa on 11/19/2010 & rated 93 points: My last bottle, what a shame. Smells and drinks like a old classy bordeaux. Hats off to this heidi barrett property and vintage. At it's perfect drinking window. (2779 views) | | | Tasted by jeff nowak on 11/26/2009: a bottle that had been open for a couple of hours. too bad there was leftover wine for me to taste. bitter tannins, hard as ass fruit, when you could find some...very late in a finish that almost had me thinking the wine was corked. (3036 views) | | | Tasted by ilvinorosso on 11/19/2009 & rated 89 points: Had this along side of the 2002, which had a good amount more primary fruit left to it. The 2000 was certainly drinking at it's peak. The nose was pleasant, still showing some primary fruit but not a lot. Lots of secondary characteristics, leather, touch of green pepper, a bit of violet and cassis. The palate was well balanced, with a nice amount of acid and just a bit of tannin left on the finish. Not a big wine, very elegant. I have really gotten away from napa cabs over the years but this was a pleasure to drink. DRINK THIS WINE NOW! it's not getting any better. (3099 views) | | | Tasted by bluevespa on 8/10/2008 & rated 91 points: Outclassed the 98 La Dominique head on. Another great bottle. (3234 views) | | | Tasted by bluevespa on 11/16/2007 & rated 92 points: Consistingly outstanding. This bottle was the best yet. Tastes more like a french bordeaux. (3510 views) | | | Tasted by bkburns on 9/22/2007 & rated 91 points: Classic Napa Cab. Just entering it's drinking window, so either let it sit or let it breathe plenty. Well worth a repeat. (3712 views) | | | Tasted by arg on 5/28/2007 & rated 94 points: A very consistent, good wine. You cannot go wrong with Paradigm (3687 views) | | | Tasted by bluevespa on 1/31/2007 & rated 91 points: Brought to a dinner in westchester NY. Served on the blind to wine restauranters and wine lovers. Except for one person, one of the best wines of the evening, if not he best. Comments of old world wine, rich, elegent. That's about all I can remember. Far to much wine by that point. Looking forward to the case on its way from California. Thank you Boris from Dean & DeLuca for having four of the bottles signd by Heidi Barrett. (3776 views) | | | Tasted by bluevespa on 1/5/2007 & rated 91 points: If you want to drink an excellent bordeaux style cabernet from california, that is affordable, ready to drink, and provides pure pleasure. This is the wine. Tasted during the holidays thanks to my son-in-law Heath Warner for insisting that I drink my only bottle that I purchased at the winery in May of 2006. I knew he was good for something! I just purchased 8 more bottles via winezap. This is a sleeper you need to try. (3791 views) | | | Tasted by jmatthews on 10/5/2006 & rated 89 points: oaky (4331 views) | | | Tasted by wood on 7/22/2006: Unbelievable fruit flavor, still decent balance (3728 views) | | | Tasted by crosstree on 6/5/2006 & rated 90 points: Agree with the other notes so far. This wine improved a lot from first taste until the last, about 3 hours later. It's soft and balanced, matched great with marinated steak. The 2000 is probably at its peak now but will likely hold form for two more years. (4239 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Paradigm Producer websiteCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Oakville |
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