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2003 Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Franc
- USA
- California
- North Coast
- Napa / Sonoma
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Community Tasting Notes 129
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kabert Likes this wine: 93 points
March 25, 2024 - Drinking in its prime! Delicious fruit, and very little indication on the palate that this is a 20+ year old cab franc. Lots of sediment though.
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kabert Likes this wine: 92 points
October 31, 2023 - After pulling the cork (which broke in half), this poured dark - nearly black. But taste-wise, it started out tart and tight and not giving much. I was concerned, as the last bottle I drank (in 2021) of the 2003 Pride CF was dynamite. However, over the next 30-90 minutes, the bottle gradually started giving more fruit, until it was free-flowing with delicious fruit by the time half the bottle was consumed. Today, the remaining half was even a tad better — just as good as the bottle a couple years ago.
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BCarv Likes this wine: 91 points
April 9, 2023 - Black fruits. Spicy, almost peppery finish.
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kabert Likes this wine: 94 points
May 14, 2021 - Fantastic! Full bodied and just overflowing with delicious cab franc fruit. Truly hard to believe this is a 2003, as this is bursting with fruit and not heavy at all. (I referred recently to a drunk-too-early 2017 Pride Cab as an appetizer in itself - this isn’t like that.) Opened about 30 minutes before tasting, and not decanted. Given the timeless, delicious experience with this bottle, and that it shows no leather-type aged flavors, I’d expect similarly well kept bottles to give pleasurable drinking for another 10 years.
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Snoman Likes this wine:
June 7, 2019 - Sadly, this bottle is past its prime by a few years.....flavors have lost freshness, more of a rustic granular mouthfeel, deep black/purple color with light bricking at the halo and little fruit or freshness remaining. Still enjoyable, just kept it a bit too long on the rack.
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By Stephen Tanzer
May/June 2006, IWC Issue #126 (link)(Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Franc Sonoma County) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2003
- Type Red
- Producer Pride Mountain Vineyards
- Varietal Cabernet Franc
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion North Coast
- Appellation Napa / Sonoma
- UPC Codes 767191500039, 767191500183
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 10 (1%)
- In Cellars 527 (36%)
- Consumed 915 (63%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
Who Likes This Wine
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- ProducerPride Mountain Vineyards
- VarietyCabernet Franc
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- SubRegionNorth Coast
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