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• Huh wrote: 87 points

  April 25, 2016 - I can't see how anyone could rate a wine this sweet and syrupy anything higher than 89. Scroll down and look for the 85 point rating and that is the exact description of this wine. It was tagged in the store of having a 94 point rating. So I grabbed it expecting a structured quality wine. This is marginally better than menage a tou (sorry about spelling but that wine does not deserve me looking up how to spell it) because the flavors are on a higher level of quality but I can't get past the soupy tomato juice type feel. Maybe there's some weird acid profile that is happening here but the acids are messed up. Maybe you could serve this to friends that aren't wine savvy and tell them this is a great wine. I also don't see how previous tasters could say this is young. If you are a serious wine aficionado who likes sweet syrupy wines then this is your wine. I'm assuming you have Caymus Cabernet in your collection. The flavors are passable but this has no structure. If you feel this is a structured wine then you and I have drank different bottles. How the critics got this wine around 94 points is beyond me.
  
  EDIT: Tasted a 2nd bottle and fared better - it was still the sweet type wine but at it's core there is "drippy" Cabernet flavors. I guess it was better because I had it with food which mitigated the sweetness. In between sips were pleasurable but in the end I can't take the sweetness. The texture is weird - kind of like a watery texture but the concentration and sweetness is there. ie. - no structure but enough acid to hold it together. I am going 89pts. now based on the fact that there are plenty of 89 pointers that let me down. If this was $20 then I'd buy more for pouring for guests to give them something decent tasting but also the sweetness that party goers like...

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• BIGBLUEMAN commented:

  4/25/16, 2:25 PM - I was given a bottle of this cabernet yesterday for my anniversary. The store owner told my friend that it was rated in the 90s. I totally agree. There is no way this wine is any more then a 85. Sweet with no finish. I would never buy this for myself.

• Huh commented:

  4/25/16, 2:58 PM - Yeh I felt so ripped off I returned it as corked. And honestly I swear there was some TCA taint but that didn't affect my soupy assessment of this wine. Trouble is the store owner gave me exactly the same bottle. But at least it is new and I can give as a gift at Christmas!

• J3r0me H@n commented:

  4/29/16, 12:40 PM - Agreed. Had this also, and there may be other notes I missed, but the initial sweetness just overtakes everything. I see what you mean by the Caymus comparison with sweetness, but sweetness can be really good when it's so well balanced like a good Caymus is. This, is no Caymus.

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