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2005 Dalla Valle Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
- USA
- California
- Napa Valley
- Oakville
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Community Tasting Notes 34
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Geaux Tigers Likes this wine: 93 points
December 18, 2023 - Picked this up for a steal on the secondary. PnP and ready from the start.
Smoke, spearmint, dill, black licorice, black tea, bouts of incense, fading fruit, but hints of black cherry and cola compliment it all. This is past peak for fruit lovers but well into a long plateau of secondary / tertiary drinking. For my palate, these seem to peak at ~15 yrs as I like a little more fruit than today’s showing. YMMV1 person found this helpful Comments (1) -
sean7711 Likes this wine: 92 points
July 3, 2023 - Moving a bit past its prime (or at least, my "prime" preferred drinking window). 92.5 if rounding up
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ipp Likes this wine: 93 points
January 1, 2023 - Needed air. After four hours, fruit emerged from this well structure, balanced, beautiful cab. Loved it.
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M DU VIN Likes this wine: 95 points
May 11, 2021 - Deep inky color with very ripe fruit.
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dream Likes this wine: 92 points
January 1, 2021 - Beautiful Cabernet nose of sweet cassis, blackberry liquor and eucalyptus. Bought off the mailing list years ago, this bottle is in perfect condition and showing quite youthful and it really didn't fully open until the third hour after decanting. It's powerful with a voluminous velvety texture and rich flavors of blackberries, cassis, mocha and licorice. The tannins on the finish are still firm which gives the wine a tautness that I like a lot in Napa Cabernet with age. Eucalyptus and ripe coffee notes rounds things out. Well-stored bottles of this have years of development ahead and while it's very ripe with an alcoholic edge, it still works well with a charred steak tonight.
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By Stephen Tanzer
Vintage Retrospective: 2005 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (May 2016), 5/1/2016 (link)(Dalla Valle Cabernet Sauvignon Napa) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Stephen Tanzer
May/June 2007, IWC Issue #132 (link)(Dalla Valle Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2005
- Type Red
- Producer Dalla Valle
- Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Napa Valley
- Appellation Oakville
- UPC Codes 006625000098, 400004398934
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 1 (0%)
- In Cellars 597 (51%)
- Consumed 578 (49%)
Food Pairing
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Who Likes This Wine
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- ProducerDalla Valle
- VarietyCabernet Sauvignon
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- SubRegionNapa Valley
- AppellationOakville
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