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• SMHalps Likes this wine: 95 points

  April 21, 2024 - Brought this to a fusion restaurant were a group of us split a whole Wagyu Beef Tongue. We had 6 different wines. 100% Pinot Noir Champagne, Brunello, Cornas, a Pommard Burgundy, a second label St-Estephe, and this. While not everyone's favorite, this was my WOTN, and I think it is in a great drinking place right now.

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• ackhoey wrote: 95 points

  March 23, 2024 - I agree with others who think this cab is at it's perfect age. Little components on the nose, but full and rich on the palate right after opening. Distinct lack of tanniins. 45 minutes later, consumed with Beef Wellington. The nose opened some with notes of cocoa and blackberries. The palate was even more dramatic, adding other dark berries and earth. But the finish was amazing - lasted a good 30 seconds with a long and powerful ending in the throat. I suspect this wine is at it's peak now.

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• Bacchus8378 wrote: 94 points

  January 26, 2024 - Very enjoyable and smooth Cabernet approaching its prime drinking window. Nice complement to dinner at QCCC, Naples FL with KAP & CJD.

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• levinml wrote: 93 points

  December 31, 2023 - Obvious big boy, but drank over 3 nights under pump and didn't seem to improve over time. Has me a little worried by Beringer PR standards.

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• sfwinelover1 Likes this wine:

  October 19, 2023 - Fourth bottle of 6, and the best so far. Off the pour, oak, tannins, acidity and a boozy note existing fractiously with the fruit and secondary notes, but in a couple of hours, all but the boozy note had balanced, and by the end of night 1, that was mostly integrated, too. Vivid cassis, dark cherries and berries framed by loam, tobacco, dark chocolate, anise and a touch of forest floor. Held well on night #2, but lost a step on night #3. I’ve been drinking this half case side by side with a case of the ‘10. The ‘10 was clearly the better for my palate until the past year, when it faded, and this surpassed the last couple of bottles of that. I’m not sure where this is in its evolution—the past several writers are all of the place from past prime to more than a decade of life left—but I suspect it’s at or close to peak, a good choice to consume now with air, but likely to have at least a couple-few years left at this point, perhaps incrementally better (the quick fade of the ‘10 makes me profess drinking window prognostications with less than 100% certainty). Similar qualitatively, though characteristically totally different, than the recent Col D’Orcia (that was a tremendous food wine, this good with food but probably better on its own), but at 3x the price, hard not to love our Tuscan friends. 93+ if scoring

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2012
• Type Red
• Producer Beringer Vineyards
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Private Reserve
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Codes 087000337695, 089819003426, 089819012282, 089819012442, 089819012459, 089819012985, 089819013265, 089819051960, 089819792993, 089819916245, 089981901285, 1086286072985, 609889000301

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• Pending Delivery 12 (0%)
• In Cellars 4,803 (60%)
• Consumed 3,245 (40%)

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