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2008 Lancaster Estate Sophia's Hillside Cuvée
Red Bordeaux Blend
- USA
- California
- Sonoma County
- Alexander Valley
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Community Tasting Notes 12
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Ellenkf Likes this wine: 90 points
January 19, 2021 - Grippy graphite and tar, dried red currant, mint, eucalyptus, cedar, cigar ash, elevated alcohol that warms as it goes down - classic Sonoma cabernet markers. Very clean. medium-full bodied, but mostly from alcohol. Aromatics are developing with air - some rose and macerated strawberry.
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Winokdub wrote: 88 points
December 29, 2016 - Same as last note. Nothing special but decent. Limited improvement with decant.
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brminz Likes this wine: 89 points
November 19, 2016 - smoothed out with aeration. Nice sipping with medium body and simple complexity.
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Aparritz Likes this wine: 92 points
November 14, 2016 - This is still fantastic. Shame on anyone who uses this for sangria!
Rich dark complex flavors balanced with still present acidity. Serious sonoma terroir. Lancaster deserves the price and accolades. This stuff is incredible. -
Winokdub wrote: 88 points
December 3, 2015 - Tasted over 2 hours to see if air would perk this thing up. It remained good but never improved. Nice structure. Tannins soft now. Not likely to improve with age. Drink up and keep expectations reasonable.
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2008
- Type Red
- Producer Lancaster Estate
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation Sophia's Hillside Cuvée
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Sonoma County
- Appellation Alexander Valley
- UPC Code 698743037713
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 176 (35%)
- Consumed 323 (65%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
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- ProducerLancaster Estate
- VarietyRed Bordeaux Blend
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- SubRegionSonoma County
- AppellationAlexander Valley
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