| Wine Type | Vintage Name Variety Locale | Date Posted Score Helpful Comments More... |
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2019 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
3/23/2024 - Takeshi Likes this wine: 98 pointsOpulence with a 6 hours Decant. |
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2019 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
2/16/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 97 pointsFairest Creatures and Where to Find Them (K&L Wine Merchant - Redwood City): Nose: Quiet, dark blue fruits, brisk passing by of earth, and light twigs. |
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2019 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
2/16/2024 - bsumoba Likes this wine: 98 pointsMirror Mirror on Wall, who's the Fairest of them All? (KLWines and Flemings): Thank you Marvin (@wineburrowingwombat). Had at Flemings after the Fairest Creature Tasting. Was super shocked that WBW would bring something like this for dinner. Lovely wine! HUGE! Will also need time to mellow out. Very big, powerful, masculine, dark, brooding. Had with a prime Rib Eye with just salt and pepper. No frills dinner and awesome with the Tusk. Probably the best restaurant steak I had in some time. Cooked perfectly med rare and perfectly seasoned. Shared a pour with Fleming's Ops Director, who also in his past, managed the Levi Stadium, York Family wine program. He was gracious enough to give comp us a pork belly appetizer which just paired beautifully with the Tusk as well. |
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2010 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
1/3/2024 - wineholder Likes this wine: 98 pointsPutting all the hype aside this juice is epic. |
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2018 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
12/31/2023 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 98 pointsNose: [58°-60°] A brooding concentration of blackberries with a quiet and subtle ripeness, a bit of fresh blueberries, earthen oak, moss, and hints of dark chocolate. Purple and black flowers and if they were somehow sweet. |
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2015 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
9/16/2023 - SCosgrove Likes this wine: 96 pointsPerfection |
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2018 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
9/7/2023 - cawinenerd wrote: 97 pointsReally outstanding wine. Drinking beautifully right now, classic cabernet qualities that are all in perfect harmony. The fruit is a marvel to behold - so pure, so clean. 3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (3) |
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2016 Tusk Estates L'OrangeNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/29/2023 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote: NRNose: [59°] Scents of white flowers, lightly ripe black fruits, prickly brambles and tree bark. Notes of river stones get elevated from the strong boozy-ness, making the mineral scents quite sharp. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2016 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
7/18/2023 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 94 pointsThe wine is drinking beautifully now as it has started to evolve and open up. Beautiful structure with powdery tannins and mouthfeel gives way to dark fruits, secondary flavors of smoky notes, chocolate and mineral/earth. Beautiful wine. |
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2019 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
7/9/2023 - tomoem Likes this wine: 97 pointsThis was the real deal. Winemaker aside I had this beautifully packaged wine 750ml (of which I also have a magnum) and it was as good a wine as I have had. Not the best but right there. Blueberry, iron and tobacco leaf. |
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2009 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
5/17/2023 - dkwins Likes this wine: 97 pointsMy first experience with Tusk and it lived up to expectations. Elegant and as smooth as any wine I have enjoyed. I rated on par with 2012 Dana Helms, which was a bit richer. Nice problem to ponder. |
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2011 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
5/10/2023 - wineholder wrote: 95 pointsBest Napa 11 I have tried |
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2008 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
4/27/2023 - timdrex Likes this wine: 95 pointsDelicious. |
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2014 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
4/7/2023 - csimm wrote: NRA few days in Napa with fellow CT'r Cristal2000: Huh. This was… initially pretty perplexing. Round and uber-plush. Displayed pretty yummy black and blue fruit that was indeed tasty, but lacked the extra frame and tension to keep things moving and in full focus. This was from Coravin and wasn’t given any air. I mention this because I tapped the bottle five days later again and gave it a bunch of air. Surprisingly, it gained better direction and energy as it unwound. It doesn’t carry the concentration, depth, and overall structure of other vintages (which is something I have experienced in other 2014s – making that vintage a good-not-superb vintage in Napa for me overall). It’s a little hard to know what to do here, but for those holding bottles, I’d continue to do so. Call it a little awkward now. Call it making excuses for a wine that should be performing well above what it did, on the first night especially. Call it a modern of modern wines to the point that I should expect this kind of behavior at certain stages of evolution. However you slice it, this particular bottle was not in any mood to be on stage. |
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2019 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
4/7/2023 - #1Winelover Likes this wine: 95 pointsThis was a very good bottle of wine. I could tell that Melka is the winemaker as it's his style. It was opened 1 hour prior to dinner, it did not need a decant. Nicely built, very smooth and full of flavor. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2018 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
3/25/2023 - wineholder Likes this wine: 96 pointsDecanted for an hour but needed longer |
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2014 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
10/29/2022 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 96 pointsBordeaux tasting with some Napa outsiders (The Embrace of Silence): Aromas of black fruits, deep and rich earth and more brooding fruits. |
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2014 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
11/1/2022 - csimm wrote: NRBordeaux tasting - with a few pirates: Opened at the end of the evening, which is almost always a mistake in terms of service, the Tusk wasn’t the total blowout like the SQN mighty Z cocktail, but it was clearly in need of about 3-5++ hours of decanting. The jam factor was prevalent, as was the booze. It displayed more brash power and angularity than the Materium, which had better contours but was syrupier and more saturated. 3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (26) |
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2014 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
10/29/2022 - bsumoba Likes this wine: 95 pointsWine: the Gathering Old World, Bordeaux (Château de Chris et Melissa): Had this after a gluttonous night of tasting and drinking BDX. CSIMM is too generous. This wine was gobbled up fairly quickly right at the end of the evening, but not to my surprise as a huge chunk of the people left that evening are “Napa” palates. This was my jam, no pun intended. This was not as fruit driven as the 19 Materium that was slipped into the middle of a BDX tasting but it was wine that reminded us of why we love Napa. Lots of fruit and bordering on jammy, this may have shown better on another day and no after having so many wines from across the pond. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this wine. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2014 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
10/6/2022 - DaButtah Does not like this wine: 87 pointsRare that I pour out a glass of wine that's not totally corked or off in some way. I fundamentally do not understand why anyone could be hoodwinked by this plonk. The price point and the gross manipulation of fruit here is downright criminal. |
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2011 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
9/25/2022 - Millers54 Likes this wine: 94 pointsDrank over several hours , excellent wine |
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2017 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
8/4/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 95 pointsSmall Tusk tasting with the proprietor (Napa Grill (Zurich)): Small Tusk tasting with co-founder Tim Martin. As Tim explained, they kept this vintage about 3 months longer in barrel than usual to add structure and used reserve wine. That really worked out well in my view. |
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2016 Tusk Estates L'OrangeNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/4/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 98 pointsSmall Tusk tasting with the proprietor (Napa Grill (Zurich)): Small Tusk tasting with co-founder Tim Martin. The L’Orange is around 60% Cab with the rest split into Franc and PV. Only around 120 cases made. |
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2012 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
8/4/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 97 pointsSmall Tusk tasting with the proprietor (Napa Grill (Zurich)): Small Tusk tasting with co-founder Tim Martin. Ripe and perfectly extracted fruit of red and black currant. An array of sweet notes of gingerbread, vanilla, liquorish, baking species. Notes of ash and graphite add mineral complexity. With aeration new aromas of milk chocolate and a distinctly herbal dimension of thyme and rosemary emerge. Great tension on the palate with an expansive character from attack into the finish. Fresh acidity and perfectly integrated tannin, perceptible if you actively look for it, but otherwise humbly in the background. This has come quite some way since my first encounter 3 years ago and I fully agree with Tim’s statement that the drinking window for this is now wide open. But mind you this is still entirely in a primary stage with no aging notes yet and if you can resist it’s probably best to hold back on this for another 5+ years. |
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2015 Tusk Estates Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
7/27/2022 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 96 points2015 Tusk capped off the family vacation to Jackson Hole. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (6) |
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