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• BradleyL Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 3, 2024 - Wow - this wine is still drinking incredibly well and showed no signs of being shut down. Popped and poured, it immediately still gave off the same ripe intensity that was pointed out by previous reviewers, but still that same lifted elegance that we have come to love with BTK bottlings. Not a surprise I guess, but notes of cassis, plum, and mocha, and the tannins are very well integrated - silky smooth. This bottle could honestly probably keep going for a while given how much fruitiness is left.

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• Elkcims Likes this wine: 94 points

  October 29, 2023 - Double decant and drank over 2 days. Best during the first 2 hours. Black cherry, dark fruit, no plum, spice, mild soft tannins. Not as good as it was 5 years ago when I lat had this vintage. The enjoyment level also influenced a bit by the 09 Pontet Canet we enjoyed that night...clearly the best of the two.

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• wine4lux Likes this wine: 96 points

  February 5, 2022 - The second bottle of the night celebrating a birthday dinner. The first was a 2007 M from Michael Mondavi.
  
  During the dinner, we just kept smiling at how good both wines were- but different.
  
  The 2005 TOR is in a great drinking window now, but I think the remaining window is tight- maybe by early 2024 it will be closed. Medium ruby color, also has the beautiful aromas of a great Napa cab. Less robust in all facets than the Slightly younger Mondavi, muted black and blue fruits, soft vanilla, incredibly smooth with a long finish. Tannins were well in the background.

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• NY Wino Likes this wine: 95 points

  December 5, 2021 - Decanted for 90 minutes. Dark purple color, bouquet of dark fruit, a little alcohol and cedar. The wine has tons of upfront fruit (despite 16 years of bottle age), with oak and cedar along with some refined and relatively smooth tannins and a long delicious finish. Still fresh and lots of life left…glad I have another bottle, which I won’t drink until 2025 at the earliest.

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• peternelson Likes this wine: 91 points

  October 16, 2021 - Big, rich ripe fruit, quite oaky but integrated producing a blackberry, raspberry pie crust thing, oozes quality but a bit over done, which is typical from the era. Still, in great shape, did well with Rib Eye, had fun with the Bro's! Palm Desert surf 'n turf.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer TOR
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Clone 6
• Vineyard Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Oakville

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• In Cellars 214 (35%)
• Consumed 395 (65%)

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