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Red
2017 VHR Cabernet Sauvignon Vine Hill Ranch
Cabernet Sauvignon
- USA
- California
- Napa Valley
- Oakville
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Community Tasting Notes 15
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Tonythefish Likes this wine: 95 points
February 17, 2024 - See prior notes - drinking beautifully
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Jheinlen Likes this wine: 95 points
December 24, 2023 - 4 hour decant at cellar temp. Thoroughly enjoyed. Highly characteristic napa cab that represents its terroir perfectly. Excellent.
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DrBad Likes this wine: 94 points
December 17, 2023 - Enjoyed with filet mignon. Well balanced, smooth, soft tannins. Very nice wine for a tough vintage.
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dbkitc wrote: 92 points
October 7, 2023 - A very good wine that suffered comparisons next to the 2019 served alongside. There is certainly a family resemblance in the nose and the fruit is pure. Structure is a bit too obvious - the tannin is very prominent. Perfume. Not quite together. I think this will turn out well in 10 years - will always be slightly linear (not a bad thing). Just may never have fireworks. (92)
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MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 95 points
October 1, 2023 - The stars aligned yesterday and to celebrate I pulled this 2017.
Splash decant/magnum decanter and consumed over 1.5 hrs. If I had to do this all over again I would have prepared with a double splash decant and 3-4 hrs of air. Regardless all the signature notes of Vine Hill Ranch was present. In fact the wifey guessed the wine just on the nose!
Even in a challenging vintage this wine holds tremendous potential. I've seen 17's floating around in the mid 100's and I think that's a fair price for those who would like to explore this vineyard at a discount.
I'll hold off on opening another till 2027 which might be the start of a desirable window for my palate.
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By Antonio Galloni
VHR, Vine Hill Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon 2008-2019 (Mar 2022), 3/1/2022 (link)(VHR, Vine Hill Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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Napa Valley’s 2018s, 1/27/2021 (link)(Vine Hill Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon VHR) Subscribe to see review text.
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2017 & 2018 Napa Valley In Depth (Jan 2020), 1/1/2020 (link)(Vhr, Vine Hill Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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Napa Valley’s Extraordinary 2016 Cabernets (Dec 2018), 12/1/2018 (link)(Vhr, Vine Hill Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2017
- Type Red
- Producer VHR
- Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard Vine Hill Ranch
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Napa Valley
- Appellation Oakville
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 9 (1%)
- In Cellars 1,245 (84%)
- Consumed 232 (16%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
Who Likes This Wine
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- VarietyCabernet Sauvignon
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- SubRegionNapa Valley
- AppellationOakville
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