Community Tasting Notes 33

• no leashes wrote: 91 points

  January 24, 2024 - Drinking beautifully, with plum dark fruit, some tar and cedar flavors, smooth texture and well integrated tannins. Really showing nicely right now. (I've seen the reviews indicating this wine is "over the hill" -- definitely not the case for wine bought from the winery and stored properly ever since. This wine is right in its drinking window.)

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• Eclectic Palate Likes this wine: 90 points

  June 22, 2023 - I purchased this bottle from Spectrum auction back in 2019. (Temperature controlled storage since purchase.) Cork was pristine, upon initial pour nose showed plenty of fruit and no oxidation. First sips showed some tannin so I decanted the bottle. Plum like fruit, very napa ish in fruit flavors and opened up with a short 30 minute decant. 14.2 per cent alcohol was very slightly showing. Based upon the prior drinking notes and my prior experience with this winery and this vintage from 2 years ago I was surprised that this bottle was essentially at the peak on the beginning of the downward slope. I previously had another 2005 of this 2 years back and it did not show well as it was much more advanced than I expected. Not this bottle. The only reason why I popped it tonight is I needed a red wine to go with a South Philly pizza and I was thinking this was screaming to be drank a few years ago. I was wrong.

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• wilkinsmd Does not like this wine:

  January 19, 2019 - Over the hill. I had a 6 pack from the winery, and opened one every couple years. The first four were enjoyable. But alas when I opened the fifth today the fruit was gone, resembled cough syrup. So went ahead and opened my sixth and final - same thing. Ah well.

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• csimm wrote: 81 points

  February 24, 2018 - Flagship Cabernet Sauvignon Tasting at Tre Posti (Saint Helena): Less old than the 2001, which was less old than the 1999, these wines (even with this 2005 at a little more than a decade old) are just plain old. Based on the stewed, plummy exhibitions of the most recent offerings, I'm thinking these wines are not built to age at all. There is no true core or concentration, no formidable acidic grip, no depth. This 2005 showed typical red and black currant, tobacco leaf, leather chair, and brick notes. More than just a style preference here; this seems to be lacking any sort of stuffing to really develop (or to have developed) into anything worth talking about. In the end, this is what many basic, entry-level Napa Cabernets start to taste like after about a decade+ of aging.

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• no leashes wrote: 88 points

  October 29, 2017 - A bit too much tar and tobacco in front of the fruit. Still, enjoyable. Rich and smooth.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Clark-Claudon
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Estate Grown
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• In Cellars 409 (47%)
• Consumed 457 (53%)

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