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• AllRed wrote: 93 points

  February 24, 2024 - 4th Saturday Brown Bagger (EBCC): Blind. Aromas of green tobacco, red berry fruit and leather. Fully-integrated. Flavors of chocolate and dark plummy fruit. Opens further as it sits, adding cherry, herb and cedar qualities, and the fruit fleshes out on the palate. Finishes with good length. Just a lovely mature wine. I suspected this was our CSJ, opened in honor of a last minute attendee born in 2002.
  
  This too had been gently double decanted off its sediment and placed back under cork 2.25 hours before the flight was poured. A beautiful showing from our penultimate bottle.

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• oldwines Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 10, 2024 - In my cellar since 2007, probably a couple years after release and purchased from WTSO. Back in the day this got relatively low scores because it did not follow the fashion then in its height toward super ripe, heavily extracted, high ABV Cabs. This was delightfully “old-school”. I double decanted around 3pm to take to a friend’s house to have dinner around 7:30pm. Totally fresh, with no bricking whatsoever. Tannins fully integrated but still has some vibrant acidity. Wonderfully smooth texture. Fruit leans to the red berry spectrum with some earthy and leathery accents. Strong mineral sensation in the background. Nice balance. It was a little less evolved than I would have hoped. The secondary flavors were reticent and there were no notable tertiary accents. Still surprisingly primary. It was just a step or two behind in complexity. This may still get there so, no real hurry to drink these if stored in a cool cellar.

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• Mallards wrote: 93 points

  June 26, 2023 - It has been 10 years since I opened my last 2002 - this was great. Soft as you might expect from a 21 year old wine, but enough tannin backbone around to make this an exceptional choice for a birthday wine. Yum!

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• Joelene wrote: 91 points

  June 18, 2023 - Drinking well

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• acorelli Likes this wine: 92 points

  December 26, 2020 - Hard to handle on opening - blast of tannins and acid - but settled down after 20 minutes to a warm, round, lovely wine. Plenty of life left.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2002
• Type Red
• Producer Chateau St. Jean
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Cinq Cépages
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Sonoma County
• Appellation Sonoma County
• UPC Code 089819056583

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• Pending Delivery 21 (1%)
• In Cellars 1,690 (46%)
• Consumed 1,930 (53%)

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