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• Burgundy Al wrote: 87 points

  June 28, 2020 - In vertical. Lighter styled, nicely elegant, but with moderate weight and length.

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• Winegeek83 Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 21, 2020 - Ric Forman knows how to craft excellent wine, even from a “tough” vintage. This particular bottle isn’t quite up to the high standard of his bottlings from superior vintages but a beautiful wine nonetheless. Lots of red fruit here and a funky, old school bordelaise style wafts from the glass upon opening. Mushroom and leather coming through, with this strawberry preserves character on the nose, but not in a sweet way. Aromatically this is a beautifully nuanced and layered wine, but the palate does fall a bit short on the length and finish. Holding together better than most 2000’s from Napa I’d suspect. Drink up.

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• Baron Slick wrote: 93 points

  July 7, 2019 - From Magnum.. Straight up Old School Napa and reminiscent of a Left Bank Bordeaux. Deep and penetrating bouquet, very earthy and pungent with black raspberries, wet forest floor, dried roses, and new leather. An hour of air brings out licorice, cinnamon, tobacco, and a wonderful fruit ripeness. The aromas carry over to the palate, which is structured, complex, and very impactful. It kept evolving and growing and changing over the course of a few hours and all for the better. This is a very convincing wine, very balanced and integrated, so expressive of place, and performed like a Grand Vin. 93+

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• Night Train wrote: 88 points

  May 18, 2015 - This is what I get for ignoring the "drink by" date in CellarTracker. Obviously WAY over the hill, but it was still "interesting". A little bit of fruit and a whole lot of mushrooms, forest floor, etc. - a Francophile's wet dream. Almost enjoyable. My one remaining bottle has "gift" written all over it.

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• RWCA wrote: 88 points

  March 3, 2013 - Still very balanced as you would expect from a Forman. Time to drink and fruit is not the same and finish a bit weak.

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• Vintage 2000
• Type Red
• Producer Forman
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• In Cellars 393 (46%)
• Consumed 457 (54%)

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