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• Michigan Mostberg Likes this wine: 92 points

  November 15, 2021 - From double-magnum. Deep crimson color, negligible browning. Olive nose over black fruit. Blackberry palate, slightly grippy and drying, in perfect balance with nothing dominating. Aged cabernet woody notes notably do not come into play. Fantastic with filets tonight. A true over-achieving survivor in this format.

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• msuwine wrote: 91 points

  September 23, 2019 - This medium-bodied Cabernet is obviously past its drinking window, but it's intriguing and tasty nonetheless. Brick red in color and medium in body, the wine offers aromas of prune, gravel, and eucalyptus bark. Tastes of dried cherry, orange peel, mint, and cedar, with a brief but pleasant finish. 13.2% alcohol.
  
  This has a Pinot-like texture in the mouth, and it's now more subdued than complex. Still, for a New World appellation wine sold for under $20 (on the year I graduated from high school, no less!), you could do a lot worse. After 23 years, this wine has lost most of its intensity, but it has maintained its balance in admirable fashion.

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• orange boy wrote: 88 points

  August 15, 2018 - some fruit left, a bit done but not over. actually quite amazing

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• Ranjack Likes this wine: 88 points

  June 3, 2018 - Wow! What a surprise! I expected this wine to be dead as a door nail after 22 years, but it was like a 20 year old Bordeaux. Showing some age, yes, but the fruit was still there without the pruney smells and flavors you often get with older CA cab. The alcohol was only 13.2, which may have been why it aged so well. We tasted it next to a 2012 Beringer Knights Valley, and I liked it better. And this wine was probably only about $16 on release.

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• Alemany wrote: 88 points

  June 16, 2017 - Unbelievable. 10 years over its peak and still very good!!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Beringer Vineyards
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Knights Valley
• UPC Code 089819003471

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• Pending Delivery 2 (0%)
• In Cellars 243 (57%)
• Consumed 181 (42%)

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