2/28/2016 - caeleric Likes this wine:

pnp, consumed 50/50 over two days.

every now and then a wine comes along that surprises you in the best of ways. i like cab, but i don't love cab any more. it takes a big whopper of a cab to wow me anymore. not necessarily an expensive whopper, but something really intense and interesting.

lots of crystallized sedminent in this one, almost like chunkier bits of sugar. huge, deep and intense aromatics. my wife's note was "very cabby." dark chocolate, deep blackberry and cassis, roasted vanilla, fat and sweet but in good ways. velvety texture and a finish that was long and deeply fruited with more of that perfectly-integrated texture and luscious fruit. this drank like an incredibly expensive top tier napa cab. as much as i loved the schrader late last year, this was on par with that. seriously good. i want to rate it in the high 90s, like 95-96. i honestly don't know what else i could want from a cab. i'm holding back a bit because my wife didn't love it like i did, and neither did some of the other people who tasted it. they liked it, but they weren't infatuated with it like i was. it's the kind of wine you want to huddle in a corner and just smell and sip and talk to it like your precious. immediately emailed the retailer inquiring about more.