November 4, 2023 - Lots of fruit, jammy, eucalyptus, and earthy grit, leather and tobacco
June 2, 2023 - Perfect at this age. Buy again
March 10, 2023 - Very ripe, perhaps a touch over ripe, perhaps a flawed bottle, resolved tannin, enjoyable.
March 5, 2023 - Ugh.. probably past its prime, but here goes...
I bought this strictly because it was West Coast 2013. This cab is inky, almost opaque, with slow thick legs. The nose is nice, black plum, white pepper and orange zest. The first sips, however, kill it. It's thick, inky texture, more like a zin, is a turn off. It lacks acidity, leaving any other traits, good or bad, to the imagination.
November 21, 2022 - This is a luscious wine.
On the nose - dark cherry and plum, leather, tobacco and oak.
On the palate - dark fruit, oak, cola
Nice long finish with velvety tanins.
Very nice wine for the price.
May 8, 2022 - Delicious, perhaps at it's peak?
January 23, 2022 - Plenty of dark fruit and black pepper, plus bell pepper, baking spice, and earthy tones. Full bodied, long finish, with both types of pepper lingering.
January 23, 2021 - Delicious, black cherry, some dusty cocoa, fine tannins, drinking great at this age.
November 6, 2020 - 2020: Top Ten Wines; 1/1/2020-12/31/2020 (Redwood City, CA): Penultimate bottle of this evolving, improving Cab from north of Yakima Valley. Dark ruby color. Aromas of plum, blackberry, nutmeg, clay pot. Even better than my last note: full-bodied, developed, balanced. Creamy texture, dark fruit on entry, a hint of salinity and baking spices in the finish, with a backbone of ripe chalky tannins. Going to save my last bottle and drink when this reaches 10 years of age.
October 3, 2020 - Solid. Picked up at local wine shop in “last bottle” bin and it turned out to be a great QPR at $25. Deep dark crimson in color with a soft nose of stewed plums. Chocolate and sweet cherry on the palette and finishes with the it as well. Chocolate covered cherries...