Community Tasting Notes 9

• SchlaepDog Likes this wine: 90 points

  February 3, 2023 - Faded red cherry, strawberry, and cranberry fruit is contrasted by earth, eucalyptus, and menthol flavors. Tannin is fully integrated, wine is silky smooth. It just lacks vibrancy and energy, feels a bit flat.
  
  Mature, drink now -2025.

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• EMTAME wrote: 92 points

  November 15, 2020 - This is why we cellar wines. This was my first bottle in a year and a half, and it’s been over eight years since I opened my first one. After some initial promise back in 2012, it went through a period of being less exciting - even a little disappointing - but has emerged and is showing quite well at this point. It’s a classic Napa Cabernet, with lovely blackcurrant, gravel, and black coffee notes, good structure, and a clean if someone clipped finish. It showed best after about an hour in the decanter, and drank well for the first three hours before it started to fade a bit. I would drink over the next 2 to 3 years, if I had more in the cellar.

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• EMTAME wrote: 90 points

  March 16, 2019 - Almost three years since my last bottle. This is still a good cab, but I was expecting more improvement by now, 10+ years post-vintage. Medium-to-full bodied, with dark red fruits and a dried herbal note leading to a clean but somewhat short finish. This doesn’t rank up with the better vintages of Chabot Vineyard for me.

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• tomoem wrote: 91 points

  July 9, 2017 - PnP. Bright cherries, some eucalyptus and an overall slightly acidic leaning wine. It is sweet strawberry and bing cherry held back slightly by that acidic mouthfeel. With that said I kind of liked it. It's finish had some graphite and that over riding sweetness of Berry and cherry.

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• BigBoy_Sonoma Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 4, 2017 - Black fruit, herbal tea, leather, tobacco, earthy notes, jammy cherry notes, balanced. A-

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Beringer Vineyards
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Chabot Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation St. Helena
• UPC Code 089819002238

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• In Cellars 62 (46%)
• Consumed 73 (54%)

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