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Manage Subscriptions2005 Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
Cabernet Sauvignon
- USA
- California
- North Coast
- Napa / Sonoma
Community Tasting Notes 93
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martin_e Likes this wine: 97 points
January 8, 2024 - Amazing how much it has improved since I had my previous bottle 3-4 years ago. It's an excellent complex multi-layer wine, which makes you go "Wow"! It has everything: mixed red and black fruits with the whole pallet of tones and nuances, beautifully framed by soft acidity and secondary flavors. At the same time, it's smoothed, not too loud.
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Glenn228 Likes this wine: 95 points
November 6, 2023 - Cedar, blackberry, cherry, leather and some herbaceous aromatics. Tastes of black cherry, blackberry, dark chocolate, olive. Very savory and well integrated. Tannins are pleasantly present and fine grained. This is an outstanding wine. Guessing a few more years at peak and many more years of enjoyment.
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sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 95 points
August 7, 2023 - One off from a large private party purchase (hard to price individual bottles, but about $110) just under 3 years ago. On the nose and palate, medium notes of cassis, black cherries, blackberries, mulberries, tobacco, dark chocolate, espresso, anise and oak. Impenetrably dark maroon, full bodied, medium+ legs. Light and completely integrated tannins and acidity, no heat. VG++ complexity and persistence, VG intensity. This came out of the bottle completely integrated, seeming almost a bit washed out, and I worried, here we go again with another bottle well past its sell by date. I recorked, and after an hour or so of slow ox, this rallied, and filled out notably over 2 nights (with the cork left in, although some glasses getting at least 45 minutes of air as I drank them). This wine is delicious, rich and opulent, very much like the recent ‘09 Outpost True and the earlier half case of the ‘05 V 29 Aida, but while my initial appraisal was unduly ungenerous, a bit more backbone could have taken this wine from excellence to greatness, more like its 4 year older mate, which was drinking far more youthfully at the start of the year. With that in mind, this is probably most satisfying as a cocktail wine, although it certainly didn’t suck with mixed grill one night, burgers another. Drink now-soon. CT window and score bang on. 95+
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coal9 Likes this wine: 94 points
June 9, 2023 - This wine was a generous X-mas gift from my brother-in-law's father. I let it breathe in the bottle for 45 minutes. Plenty of fruit and baking spice in the bouquet for the first 3 hours; then a bit less fruit, with the baking spice and hint of tobacco elevating their presence. The flavors were a bit jammy during the first hour and a half until the wine fully opened (but in a good way, delicious); then the wine became more sophisticated, with notes of cherry, raspberry, cassis, spices, and hints of oak, mint, and tobacco. Tannins were fully integrated. The complex structure and balance were enticing. I appreciated the full body and long finish. This wine is maybe just beginning to exit its peak so drink soon. I really enjoyed this Pride Mountain Cab.
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zinnut Likes this wine: 92 points
July 12, 2022 - A fantastic, mature cab. Tobacco, cedar, black and red fruits. I can't see this improving. Drink soon.
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By Stephen Tanzer
Vintage Retrospective: 2005 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (May 2016), 5/1/2016 (link)(Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Napa) Subscribe to see review text.
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Pride – Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Vertical Tasting (Jun 2015), 3/1/2015 (link)(Pride Mountain Vineyards Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (sonoma County/napa County) Napa Valley) Subscribe to see review text.
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May/June 2009, IWC Issue #144 (link)(Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Sonoma County/Napa County) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2005
- Type Red
- Producer Pride Mountain Vineyards
- Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
- Designation Reserve
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion North Coast
- Appellation Napa / Sonoma
- UPC Codes 2161898700057, 767191700057, 767191700095, 767191700170
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 35 (1%)
- In Cellars 1,591 (51%)
- Consumed 1,517 (48%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
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- DesignationReserve
- CountryUSA
- RegionCalifornia
- SubRegionNorth Coast
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