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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.3 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 1065 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Tym4wine on 4/6/2024: Rating would be 90. Drinking it’s age. Super soft tannins with dark fruit and good acidity and structure. Caymus old school. Perfectly crafted in its prime and still highly enjoyable. Recommend to drink now. (373 views) | | | Tasted by ogres3 on 3/3/2024 & rated 91 points: First bottle to be emptied at a wine tasting. Certainly has a reputation. Pretty sure three of the other wines clearly were better. Consistently Caymus. (568 views) | | | Tasted by Inforred on 1/6/2024 & rated 90 points: I misplaced this bottle and just stumbled across it. Surprisingly fresh. Modest bricking. Complex aroma featuring dark fruit, tar, and cinnamon. Taste is surprisingly fruity. Alcohol is noticeable. Since I thought it was a lost cause this was a great bonus find (1095 views) | | | Tasted by andrewdodd86 on 9/25/2023 & rated 93 points: At peak, not as much RS as the current stuff but still more than I remembered (1489 views) | | | Tasted by matthyson on 8/29/2023 & rated 96 points: Pop and pour; slight bricking around the edges but shows more youthful than the vintage on the bottle. Wonderful bouquet that opens with notes of cedar, wild game and brooding raspberries. Secondary hints of spearmint, iodine, and an ever so subtle bell pepper rounding out the nose. On the palate, bright red fruits marry perfectly with supplemental flavours of olive tapenade and chinotto. Dusty smooth tannins support a beautiful structure with balanced alcohol and lip smacking acidity. An elegant wine drinking at its peak that keeps you coming back for more after a 40+ second finish. Outstanding. (1461 views) | | | Tasted by bjbu on 8/17/2023 & rated 91 points: WSET II tasting evening: Intensity medium. Fruit on the sweet side: blackberry, black cherry, dough, liquiroce, meat, white pepper, herbal. Tannins medium(+). Acidity medium. Finish medium(+). Alcohol a tad overwhelming. (1297 views) | | | Tasted by ThijsV on 8/17/2023 & rated 93 points: WSET 2 group tasting (My place, Utrecht, NL): After 16 years still so much fruit! Medium+ intensity on the nose with plum, black ripe cherries, bacons, spices, vacurub, licorice, sweet fruit. Medium acidity, medium+ finely engrained tannins, very long finish. The 15% abv does show. 92-93 (1265 views) | | | Tasted by Aztec94 on 7/9/2023 & rated 92 points: Decanted for about an hour and drank over the next couple hours. It could have benefitted from a longer decant. It was smokey and slightly bitter on the finish upon opening. Over the following few hours it opened up and evened out. More fruit came out (red and black), along with molasses and cedar. A hint of smoke was still there, but the bitterness disappeared. Overall pretty enjoyable. (1256 views) | | | Tasted by Pike_Fisherman on 4/14/2023 & rated 93 points: A bit past its prime. Should have had it 2-3 years ago. (1435 views) | | | Tasted by MCRCELLAR on 3/27/2023: Flat, not much flavor, a bit bitter, maybe to old.
Double decanted. Second day even less flavor. (1313 views) | | | Tasted by pinotluvr on 9/8/2022 & rated 92 points: Oh yeah….nicely aged and glad to be enjoying right now. (2381 views) | | | Tasted by pinotluvr on 8/23/2022 & rated 92 points: In a good spot. Time to finish these off. (2210 views) | | | Tasted by knlowery on 8/15/2022 & rated 94 points: This was delicious when first opened and very inviting and luscious. (2097 views) | | | Tasted by oldcabman on 7/17/2022 & rated 92 points: Still chugging along, albeit not terribly complex. Nice balance of fruit and other typical cab characteristics.
Drink up - probably will not improve with further age. (2048 views) | | | Tasted by Hanibal on 5/19/2022 & rated 86 points: worst than my last one... syrupy, too sweet and high alcohol... thankfully no more (3043 views) | | | Tasted by michigan dogs on 4/16/2022 & rated 94 points: My last bottle and the best or 4. I've had this bottle a long time and figured it was near the end of its drinking window. I do not like Caymus since they went to being mass produced with added vanilla and sugar, but this wine was excellent, balanced, smooth, good mouthfeel and very good acidity. What a treat and a bigger surprise. Too bad they don't make a cab like this anymore. (1910 views) | | | Tasted by wineshaman on 4/9/2022 & rated 90 points: Decanted with light sediment, tasted after 30 minutes in decanter, last bottle of six, consistent scores since first bottle reviewed more than a decade ago.
Pleasant nose, typical dark fruits on palate, dark plum, dark currants, cassis, classic Caymus RS, vanilla and oak, fully integrated, so drink soon (1828 views) | | | Tasted by eson73 on 4/8/2022 & rated 93 points: Fantastic Napa Cab. Vanilla, hay, cedar and still some tannins. Has a lot to give but will likely not get much better. (1768 views) | | | Tasted by vanpe003 on 3/6/2022: No detailed notes, but in a very good place right now. (1959 views) | | | Tasted by Rjmathias on 2/28/2022: Luscious, smooth tannins and great mouthfeel. Drinking well. Blackberry and cassis notes. Absolutely Yummy! (1629 views) | | | Tasted by Califriend on 2/26/2022: Fruit forward but not sweet (1396 views) | | | Tasted by wbduval on 2/1/2022 & rated 93 points: Still drinking well (1536 views) | | | Tasted by napasoutherner on 11/12/2021 & rated 91 points: Very easy and nice bottle of Faunus from a great vintage! Lots of dark ink with moderate layers and depth. Some dust and volcanic ash. Medium finish. (2106 views) | | | Tasted by maxima on 8/21/2021 & rated 87 points: Encore une fois, déception.
Boisé et assez extrait.
Fruits noirs et tannins serrés avec un arrière-gout
de sirop contre la toux!
Pas dans ma palette depuis
quelques années cette cuvée! (3002 views) | | | Tasted by Sfflyer123 on 8/20/2021 & rated 90 points: Pleasant wine. Has somewhat of a taste of "over-extraction" and some "medicinal" flavors. Almost an undercurrent of cough syrup. Very drinkable if you like this style. Old prunes, cough syrup, medicinal. 90 pts. (2093 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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WineAlign (9/29/2010)
(Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley red) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Szabo, MS
WineAlign (9/23/2010)
(Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley red) Subscribe to see review text. |  By Gary Vaynerchuk
Wine Library TV, 2007 Napa Valley Tasting, Episode #749 (10/6/2009)
(Caymus Napa Cabernet Sauvignon) #1; COLOR-dark; NOSE-like a delicious strawberry and grape Blow Pop; very candied, but not fake; aromatically delicious; has a cinnamon and crème component (dessert like); cotton candy; spectacular nose; PALATE-this is extremely strong; extremely well made; great tannins; interesting minty eucalyptus component; black cherry; great structure; will easily last 8-15 years, but is drinking really well now; SV-94; GV-93+ 93+ points |
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| Caymus Producer website Cabernet 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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