March 7, 2019 - Medium bodied but with good aromatic and flavor intensity. Starting to show it’s age with some bricking around the rim.
The wine features a profile of black coffee, dark chocolate, cassis, and sesame sauce with hints of bell pepper and lingering notes of tobacco. Very savory.
November 28, 2016 - Still going strong at 6yo.
February 5, 2015 - more than two years later, another pour: color: purple velvet; nose: earth and oak, as before, and also a touch of vanilla; taste: medium-bodied mouth feel, fruit-leaning taste, medium-length finish with notes of licorice and tobacco; overall: tasty, New World-biased, if kind of simple, CS juice at a decent price -- and now (2015-6) is the time to enjoy it.
12/11/12 - 84 pts - Having enjoyed several bottles of Cousino-Macul's 2009 CS last year, this is my first pour of the 2010 vintage. Color: light red-purple; nose: earth and light oak -- but hardly any; taste: medium-bodied mouth feel, licorice-green pepper taste, medium-length smooth finish tasting of tobacco and greenish tannins; overall: OK, but less of a fruit taste than before and therefore less interesting and dynamic. It's not bad, but probably needs to sit another 6-10 months before it's ready for prime time
November 5, 2014 - Tons of pepper and red fruit, but too much concentration and acidity makes it unbalanced.
August 2, 2014 - Color- Ruby/light red-purple
Nose- pepper, slight oak, little fruit
Taste- green pepper, mild fruit, slight spice, dry, and bitter at the end.
June 18, 2014 - This has ripe, spicy, blackcurrant fruit, good depth and soft tannins. Still quite youthful, but attractive drinking now and should keep well. A good value, modern but characterful wine.
April 30, 2014 - dark red body, magenta rim, in the color. blackberry, currants, chocolate, spice, on the nose. medium acid, medium tannins, on the finish.
February 24, 2014 - Clear, deep, ruby.
Clean, med+ intensity aromas of black fruits-cassis, blackberry. Leather, tobacco, spice, oak, heavy green bell pepper.
Dry, high acidity, high tannin, med+ flavours of black fruit, green pepper, spice, full body, med+ length
February 1, 2014 - With beef tenderloin, roast carrot/potato medly. Ran the wine through the Vinturi.
Crimson/purple, deep but not opaque, consistent color to the rim.
L:ovely nose - maybe a touch of blueberry.
Smooth, medium weight, dry, tannins there to give some stuffing, but moderated enough, some pepper in the middle of the palate but without the heat.
November 4, 2013 - Not my type of wine anymore, too exuberant