Community Tasting Notes 8

• WetRock wrote:

  January 28, 2022 - Wild, brambly blackberry on the nose and palate. I don't think I've ever had a Cab that leans so hard into that. That's also some huge clue about how this 29 year old Cab is carrying along. Barely any bricking and the only thing to really show for the age is the more sedate and lean palate. The fruit character is primary but the feel is drifting into secondary. Color is not. Darkly opaque still. Some tannin still. Goo acidity though there is some tartness. There is an odd sort of 'paint' thing lingering the background. Even overnight. I've noticed that in very young, fruit forward wines. Never in a wine so old. Almost no classic secondary Can notes. This is a fruit show. A tasty drink in any case. Nary a note of fade overnight. Remarkable how these live. Atypical yet still very good.

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• RockinCabs wrote: 87 points

  December 16, 2020 - In the same range as the last bottle. There is a niceplum and herb profile here, but at this point the American oak just overwhelms the fruit. Nuances of the wine were there, but oak was hard to escape.

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• RockinCabs wrote: 88 points

  June 8, 2018 - Opens up almost boozy in its ripeness and needs decanting to settle down. Once properly open there is a nice Plummy cabernet here with sage, green pepper and gingerbread notes.
  
  Ready to drink up. I would not wait on these much longer.

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• bestdamncab Likes this wine: 91 points

  September 12, 2013 - Beet red color in the glass, nose of smoke, earth, dust, cassis, and mushy black cherry fruit, more of the same on the palate, hints of rich gunpowder tea on the mid palate, opened to raspberry fruit after ten minutes, medium body, soothing, continued to open nicely, medium finish. Drink up. Tasted this and three other Kennedy cabernets with Kathryn many years ago and bought this bottle that day. Thank you Kathryn for the wine and the memories.

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• Johann Von Mastiff wrote: 86 points

  May 12, 2008 - Still has some fairly strong color. Decanted for almost two hours. Not a whole lot going on in the nose. Some lead pencil shavings, cassis. Lots of acid still left on the palate but not a whole lot going on. I had this on release and it was brilliant. This bottle is only so-so.

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• Vintage 1993
• Type Red
• Producer Kathryn Kennedy
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Santa Cruz Mountains
• Appellation Santa Cruz Mountains

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• In Cellars 56 (61%)
• Consumed 36 (39%)

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