Another wine that absolutely shocked me with the youth. This was really almost too young to be drinking full stop. Again got better with time in the glass and maybe more than the other wines appreciated the different meats as a pairing. Very good as always but I think we need to wait on our other bottles
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Weekend at Bernie's; 2/25/2022-2/27/2022 (Vero Beach): Like it's brother the '93 this wine was just in an excellent spot. I wish we'd opened them maybe a bit earlier so they had some time to breath but they did so in the glass and I found myself going back for extra pours. Both wines have that nice subtlety that you find in old world and yet still a good fruit and style to them. Really enjoyed.
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Anticipation for night of Madrona started back in July of 2021 when I went in on these bottles with JonathanJ & Deandrew8649. Sourced through Benchmark Wine Group in what turned out to be perfect condition. After a few months of trying to schedule we landed on a date Feb 18th (little did we know it was national drink wine day). The venue of Bludorn was kind enough host and we were all set for what turned out to be an amazing experience.
94 & 95 double decanted back into bottle.
03 & 04 splash decanted and sediment filtered (lots of sediment in the 04)
Madrona is a special site and these wines showed terroir and vintage wonderfully. Spanning 28 years and two different winemakers (Rick Forman/Brad Grimes) this was an experience in which I will never forget.Night of Madrona at Bludorn Houston.
1994 Madrona Ranch
Double decant back into the bottle. This bottle was in perfect shape. Many of the restaurant staff absolutely loved the 94 & 95. By the time we had it before our meal I'm afraid we might have missed the peak window and expression of the 94. Of the two bottles from the 90's the 95 edge this one out over the length of our meal.
Depending upon storage this wine still has a lot of life yet. Drink or hold.
Just totally rocking and maybe my WOTN. It’s in a sweet spot. Very balanced. Fruit still very there but lots of secondary too. Elegant and more restrained in style. Really enjoyed this and was glad to see we own more.
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Beautiful color did not reveal its age. An elegant wine that has aged gracefully like a fine claret. Plenty of dark fruits in the nose with blackberries, blueberries, plums, and black currants along with licorice, earthiness, and some coffee. Deep berry fruit in the flavor. Very well balanced, medium to full bodied, nice complexity, and a long smooth finish. 94/95
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Charleston IV - Return of the Collectible; 9/27/2018-9/30/2018 (Charleston, SC (various locations)): Wine #2: I wasn't 100% sure how this was going to show. We've had some old Abreus that were very good but we've also had some that just didn't age quite as well as they should have. This drank young. Lovely, but there's still more time needed for the oak and tannin to integrate into the right spot. The fruit is very much there - lots of lovely dark ones. Some lavender and cigar which made it feel a bit 'pretty' but there is also power there. Will lay the others down for awhile. This is a wine built to last.
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Tasted over 5 hours. Fine but not special and a disappointment given the price tag. Offering little on the nose and very little in the way of fruit. I wonder if this bottle was heat damaged (purchased at auction)? It was fine, balanced from an acid and body perspective, but gave very little in terms of the nose and very little fruit.
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(if i hadnt had a bottle of Schultze Windy Oaks SC PN and glass of Beringer Cab on hand with two carafes with which to build my monster, i dont what i’da done! Bought at RETAIL?? [shudder])
DillaStien’s Monster Wine : 93-94 points, EZ..
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Guys Night Part III (Jason's House): I believe pop and pour. This was one of the best California cabernets I have had. The nose is classic Bordeaux. The palate leans towards saddle leather and red fruit, which makes me think it's California cabernet. Really well done.
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Mostly Cali at Jason's: Very dark red color. PNP, Drank 1 glass over 90 minutes. Wow, what a masterpiece this is. Brilliant from the start. Great nose with deep earth, dark berries, cassis, leather, funk. The palate picks up where the nose left off, elegant, layered and deep but with lift an great earthiness, soil, seamless, long, wow! 95+pts to 96 pts.
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Tuesday Night Double Blind $50+ (Alpharetta, GA): Dark opaque core with garnet rim; Bordeaux nose with cigar, tobacco, weedy, stones, gravel, earth, black currant, rich darker fruit, taut, green pepper, slight funk, good structure, in the secondary/tertiary, mushroom, some bitter chocolate, slight Bretty leather and sweaty animal note adds nice complexity rather than taking hold of the wine, very good balance, violets on the finish, slight medicinal licorice finish; very good, great vintage; fooled most as Bordeaux.
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Nice dark rich fruits with nice cool slate minerality. Smooth texture and solid stucture with lots of black spice. Long and concentrated, drinking great and more youthful than expected. Impressive.
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Ginsberg and Chan Singapore Steak Supreme (Wooloomooloo Steak House): An outstanding bottle that was piercing like a garnet, a concentration of fruit and integration of alcohol that I have only encountered in 1-2 other bottles, and reminded me of the Artadi El Pison 1995. Subtle undergirth of strength gives this wine presence and approachability. Gorgeous.
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Very purple red color. Fairly subtle plum nose. Fairly light on the finish, but long palate of dark berry and plum. Opened up a little more with time. Very elegant. Probably at (or just beyond?) peak. Bought at auction, can't speak to storage although my bottle seems to lack the size others have described.
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Napa 1994 (@ JK): Luxurious bouquet with red and dark berries, eucalyptus, cedar and sweet spices. On the palate dark berries, licorice, beautiful acidity and round but still firm tannin. Enormous length. Has a future of at least another 5 years.
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94 Napa: a 20-year retrospective @ my place (Netherlands): Very primary, deep and dark. Loaded with potential and promise. Black fruit, very floral and luxurious like an expensive perfume. Broad-shouldered and masculine, yet well dressed and very sophiticated. One for the cellar. 96+/100 (group scores 94-99)
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Dark ruby/purple, concentrated and perfectly balanced, long finish. Can't comment on secondaries, as this was overshadowed by '95 vieux telegraphe. Showing younger than its age.
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With its scents of cassis, blackberry jam, truffle, caramel, coffee bean and cherries, the nose grabs your attention. Full bodied, concentrated, rich and intense, the wine is powerful, complex and long, but it lacks the same level of elegance and finesse tasted in the current vintages.
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Poured in decanter. Character kept on changing for up to 6 hours. Last glass was most enjoyable. Medium plus finish. Very little if any tannins remaining. I'd drink before it hits 25 years of age.
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US 1994 at its best... (Zurich): Tasted blind: Very nice nose of Cassis, Chocolate. Only negative is that the alcohol is showing a bit too much. Still hard tannins, good length but I am missing the complexity and depth. A bit disappointing
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Pop and pour straight into decanter and consumed over 4 hours. A Bdx-like nose of cassis, raspberry, cedar, smoke, earth and tar. Still has that ripe CA fruit, however, and would probably not be mistaken for Bdx. Feminine, elegant and silky, almost restrained on the palate, but finishes long and persistent with mild tobacco. This wine needs some air -- it was initially a bit disjointed but improved considerably with time. Started as a 91-92 point wine and the last glass was 95.
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August 2008 at Bud Starr's St. Louis Tasting (Bud Starr's -- Clayton, Missouri): A friend of mine always says, ‘this is so good it must be from California…’ Well, I’d suggest this is good enough to be Bordeaux. Not unlike the Araujo in many ways – particularly the chocolate. But, for me, and everyone didn’t agree with this sentiment, there’s more polish to this wine today. It’s hugely aromatic, elegant, more feminine in style and lighter on its feet. Very pretty and showing all it has. Well liked by the table, and generally scored consistent with the Araujo.
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Dark fruit and cinnamon spice - still reminds me of Insignia. Surprisingly lightly textured on the palate, with dark, sweet fruit. Fine tannins and forward acidity. Delicious now.
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Drank with Dinner deep dark purple wine. decanted for approx hour or so. gave a little black fruit on the nose with a little eucylptus. in the mouth there is rich black fruit, casis and a touch of vanilla (maybe the oak) fine silky dry tanins. medium weight with a medium finish. very cali cab. this wine still imrpoving and should drink easily for another 10 years
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A rather classically styled Napa Cabernet - reminds me of a mid-90s Insignia. Very Napa in character with ripe but not overdone deep red cherry fruit and char notes. Grainy, youthful tannins really shut down the finish here. Graphite character on the finish. Far more serious than I envisioned this being. A massively structured, really good wine in need of more bottle aging.
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First bottle from a pristine case bought on release. Not at all the wine I was expecting. Good, but not great. Nose was average, in the mouth the fruit was fine, but not spectacular. What am I missing here. Don't get me wrong, it was good, but I was expecting a lot more. Maybe 90 points at best.
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STG does 1994 Cal Cab (Michael and Claire's house): Eric had been guessing Abreu all night, so he had to be right eventually. :) I found the nose to be fairly simple with smoke and rosemary. The palate was very, very sweet (too sweet almost) with tastes of blueberry. Overall the wine was in good balance.
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Seattle Tasting Group does 1994 California Cabernet (Bellevue, WA): This was clearly the Abreu. Raspberry, violet and hints of mint. The palate is tannic and dense with vanilla and bitter chocolate, impeccable balance. A gorgeous 60-second finish keeps your attention. This is very, very young but impressive for its structure and giving a fair amount of love.
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1994 Napa Horizontal (Seattle, WA, USA): On the nose this shows mint, cola and brown sugar. On the palate this is dark & brooding, some sweetness, very, dery deep. The finish is long, extracted and endless. Nearly one minute! his one started very tight and structured and just kept opening and spreading all night long. Even when we finished it up after a few hours, it still had a long way to go.
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CT Group does 1996 Bordeaux @ Jeff S: Rich, ripe fruit. A bit tannic at this point. Seems to have the elements for a great wine, but this needs at least 5 more years.
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8/4/2023 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Another wine that absolutely shocked me with the youth. This was really almost too young to be drinking full stop. Again got better with time in the glass and maybe more than the other wines appreciated the different meats as a pairing. Very good as always but I think we need to wait on our other bottles
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2/25/2022 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Weekend at Bernie's; 2/25/2022-2/27/2022 (Vero Beach): Like it's brother the '93 this wine was just in an excellent spot. I wish we'd opened them maybe a bit earlier so they had some time to breath but they did so in the glass and I found myself going back for extra pours. Both wines have that nice subtlety that you find in old world and yet still a good fruit and style to them. Really enjoyed.
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2/18/2022 - MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 94 Points
Anticipation for night of Madrona started back in July of 2021 when I went in on these bottles with JonathanJ & Deandrew8649. Sourced through Benchmark Wine Group in what turned out to be perfect condition. After a few months of trying to schedule we landed on a date Feb 18th (little did we know it was national drink wine day). The venue of Bludorn was kind enough host and we were all set for what turned out to be an amazing experience.
94 & 95 double decanted back into bottle.
03 & 04 splash decanted and sediment filtered (lots of sediment in the 04)
Madrona is a special site and these wines showed terroir and vintage wonderfully. Spanning 28 years and two different winemakers (Rick Forman/Brad Grimes) this was an experience in which I will never forget.Night of Madrona at Bludorn Houston.
1994 Madrona Ranch
Double decant back into the bottle. This bottle was in perfect shape. Many of the restaurant staff absolutely loved the 94 & 95. By the time we had it before our meal I'm afraid we might have missed the peak window and expression of the 94. Of the two bottles from the 90's the 95 edge this one out over the length of our meal.
Depending upon storage this wine still has a lot of life yet. Drink or hold.
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2/13/2021 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Just totally rocking and maybe my WOTN. It’s in a sweet spot. Very balanced. Fruit still very there but lots of secondary too. Elegant and more restrained in style. Really enjoyed this and was glad to see we own more.
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5/25/2019 - buckeye76 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Beautiful color did not reveal its age. An elegant wine that has aged gracefully like a fine claret. Plenty of dark fruits in the nose with blackberries, blueberries, plums, and black currants along with licorice, earthiness, and some coffee. Deep berry fruit in the flavor. Very well balanced, medium to full bodied, nice complexity, and a long smooth finish. 94/95
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9/30/2018 - retired_and_roving wrote: 94 Points
Charleston Offlineorama IV; 9/27/2018-10/1/2018 (Charleston, NC (various locations)): 2/6 wines tasted blind. The nose is not very expressive. The color is ruby red no bricking. On the palate, dark mature fruits, bramble and dry forest floor. Very integrated an pulled together.
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9/30/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine: 95 Points
Charleston IV - Return of the Collectible; 9/27/2018-9/30/2018 (Charleston, SC (various locations)): Wine #2: I wasn't 100% sure how this was going to show. We've had some old Abreus that were very good but we've also had some that just didn't age quite as well as they should have. This drank young. Lovely, but there's still more time needed for the oak and tannin to integrate into the right spot. The fruit is very much there - lots of lovely dark ones. Some lavender and cigar which made it feel a bit 'pretty' but there is also power there. Will lay the others down for awhile. This is a wine built to last.
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5/7/2018 - Vinomnivore wrote: 88 Points
Tasted over 5 hours. Fine but not special and a disappointment given the price tag. Offering little on the nose and very little in the way of fruit. I wonder if this bottle was heat damaged (purchased at auction)? It was fine, balanced from an acid and body perspective, but gave very little in terms of the nose and very little fruit.
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11/23/2017 - jdtonic wrote: flawed
From Perfect Magnum of Perfect Provenance:
CORKED! D’oh.
(if i hadnt had a bottle of Schultze Windy Oaks SC PN and glass of Beringer Cab on hand with two carafes with which to build my monster, i dont what i’da done! Bought at RETAIL?? [shudder])
DillaStien’s Monster Wine : 93-94 points, EZ..
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9/30/2017 - galewskj wrote: 95 Points
Guys Night Part III (Jason's House): I believe pop and pour. This was one of the best California cabernets I have had. The nose is classic Bordeaux. The palate leans towards saddle leather and red fruit, which makes me think it's California cabernet. Really well done.
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9/28/2017 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points
Mostly Cali at Jason's: Very dark red color. PNP, Drank 1 glass over 90 minutes. Wow, what a masterpiece this is. Brilliant from the start. Great nose with deep earth, dark berries, cassis, leather, funk. The palate picks up where the nose left off, elegant, layered and deep but with lift an great earthiness, soil, seamless, long, wow! 95+pts to 96 pts.
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1/31/2017 - Rezy13 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Tuesday Night Double Blind $50+ (Alpharetta, GA): Dark opaque core with garnet rim; Bordeaux nose with cigar, tobacco, weedy, stones, gravel, earth, black currant, rich darker fruit, taut, green pepper, slight funk, good structure, in the secondary/tertiary, mushroom, some bitter chocolate, slight Bretty leather and sweaty animal note adds nice complexity rather than taking hold of the wine, very good balance, violets on the finish, slight medicinal licorice finish; very good, great vintage; fooled most as Bordeaux.
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10/8/2015 - KenK Likes this wine: 95 Points
Nice dark rich fruits with nice cool slate minerality. Smooth texture and solid stucture with lots of black spice. Long and concentrated, drinking great and more youthful than expected. Impressive.
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7/28/2015 - bengti Likes this wine: 98 Points
Ginsberg and Chan Singapore Steak Supreme (Wooloomooloo Steak House): An outstanding bottle that was piercing like a garnet, a concentration of fruit and integration of alcohol that I have only encountered in 1-2 other bottles, and reminded me of the Artadi El Pison 1995. Subtle undergirth of strength gives this wine presence and approachability. Gorgeous.
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4/24/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Wine Dinner Extravaganza (North Lincoln Avenue Loft - Chicago IL): Much leaner and more elegant vs Bryant in the next glass. I like the balance and persistence and the harmony of ripe (maturing) black fruit, rosemary and licorice and well-integrated tannins.
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12/25/2014 - rcg62 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very purple red color. Fairly subtle plum nose. Fairly light on the finish, but long palate of dark berry and plum. Opened up a little more with time. Very elegant. Probably at (or just beyond?) peak. Bought at auction, can't speak to storage although my bottle seems to lack the size others have described.
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9/20/2014 - Zweder wrote: 97 Points
Napa 1994 (@ JK): Luxurious bouquet with red and dark berries, eucalyptus, cedar and sweet spices. On the palate dark berries, licorice, beautiful acidity and round but still firm tannin. Enormous length. Has a future of at least another 5 years.
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9/20/2014 - jkoenen wrote: 96 Points
94 Napa: a 20-year retrospective @ my place (Netherlands): Very primary, deep and dark. Loaded with potential and promise. Black fruit, very floral and luxurious like an expensive perfume. Broad-shouldered and masculine, yet well dressed and very sophiticated. One for the cellar. 96+/100 (group scores 94-99)
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4/3/2014 - bonedoc wrote: 95 Points
Dark ruby/purple, concentrated and perfectly balanced, long finish. Can't comment on secondaries, as this was overshadowed by '95 vieux telegraphe. Showing younger than its age.
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3/3/2014 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
With its scents of cassis, blackberry jam, truffle, caramel, coffee bean and cherries, the nose grabs your attention. Full bodied, concentrated, rich and intense, the wine is powerful, complex and long, but it lacks the same level of elegance and finesse tasted in the current vintages.
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1/10/2014 - thepeng1 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Wonderful. Soft, smooth. But, it tightened up over the course of the evening and lacked a really long finish. Hence, 97 not 100
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11/23/2013 - bonedoc wrote:
1994 Napa Tasting (Bin 54): (++) great fruit, richer, less minerals, beef
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6/11/2013 - Fiorano wrote: 95 Points
Smooth, elegant, mature and beautiful.
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5/24/2013 - mappleton Likes this wine: 95 Points
An elegant beauty. "Margaret Thatcher" maybe? Elegance and strength. Power and Beauty. Delicious. Still in awe of most of these 94's. What a year
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3/1/2013 - Old Vino Likes this wine: 94 Points
Poured in decanter. Character kept on changing for up to 6 hours. Last glass was most enjoyable. Medium plus finish. Very little if any tannins remaining. I'd drink before it hits 25 years of age.
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11/2/2009 - Jeff Leve wrote: 96 Points
Dense, concentrated and filled with ripe, sweet cassis and blue fruit. Round and silky textures. Long clean finish.
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4/28/2009 - psmith wrote:
1994 and 1997 California Cabernet Retrospective (Chicago, IL): Ripe without being candied - sweet red and black cherry fruit. Medium-bodied and well balanced. Fine tannins. Very nice.
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2/6/2009 - Wine_lvr wrote: 92 Points
US 1994 at its best... (Zurich): Tasted blind: Very nice nose of Cassis, Chocolate. Only negative is that the alcohol is showing a bit too much. Still hard tannins, good length but I am missing the complexity and depth. A bit disappointing
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1/26/2009 - rsepulve wrote: 95 Points
Pop and pour straight into decanter and consumed over 4 hours. A Bdx-like nose of cassis, raspberry, cedar, smoke, earth and tar. Still has that ripe CA fruit, however, and would probably not be mistaken for Bdx. Feminine, elegant and silky, almost restrained on the palate, but finishes long and persistent with mild tobacco. This wine needs some air -- it was initially a bit disjointed but improved considerably with time. Started as a 91-92 point wine and the last glass was 95.
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8/12/2008 - BordeauxNut wrote: 95 Points
August 2008 at Bud Starr's St. Louis Tasting (Bud Starr's -- Clayton, Missouri): A friend of mine always says, ‘this is so good it must be from California…’ Well, I’d suggest this is good enough to be Bordeaux. Not unlike the Araujo in many ways – particularly the chocolate. But, for me, and everyone didn’t agree with this sentiment, there’s more polish to this wine today. It’s hugely aromatic, elegant, more feminine in style and lighter on its feet. Very pretty and showing all it has. Well liked by the table, and generally scored consistent with the Araujo.
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6/28/2008 - psmith wrote:
Dark fruit and cinnamon spice - still reminds me of Insignia. Surprisingly lightly textured on the palate, with dark, sweet fruit. Fine tannins and forward acidity. Delicious now.
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3/22/2007 - reichken wrote: 92 Points
Drank with Dinner
deep dark purple wine. decanted for approx hour or so. gave a little black fruit on the nose with a little eucylptus. in the mouth there is rich black fruit, casis and a touch of vanilla (maybe the oak) fine silky dry tanins. medium weight with a medium finish. very cali cab. this wine still imrpoving and should drink easily for another 10 years
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10/26/2006 - psmith wrote:
A rather classically styled Napa Cabernet - reminds me of a mid-90s Insignia. Very Napa in character with ripe but not overdone deep red cherry fruit and char notes. Grainy, youthful tannins really shut down the finish here. Graphite character on the finish. Far more serious than I envisioned this being. A massively structured, really good wine in need of more bottle aging.
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4/1/2006 - BradE wrote:
First bottle from a pristine case bought on release. Not at all the wine I was expecting. Good, but not great. Nose was average, in the mouth the fruit was fine, but not spectacular. What am I missing here. Don't get me wrong, it was good, but I was expecting a lot more. Maybe 90 points at best.
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5/6/2005 - Jason wrote: 91 Points
STG does 1994 Cal Cab (Michael and Claire's house): Eric had been guessing Abreu all night, so he had to be right eventually. :) I found the nose to be fairly simple with smoke and rosemary. The palate was very, very sweet (too sweet almost) with tastes of blueberry. Overall the wine was in good balance.
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5/6/2005 - Eric wrote: 94 Points
Seattle Tasting Group does 1994 California Cabernet (Bellevue, WA): This was clearly the Abreu. Raspberry, violet and hints of mint. The palate is tannic and dense with vanilla and bitter chocolate, impeccable balance. A gorgeous 60-second finish keeps your attention. This is very, very young but impressive for its structure and giving a fair amount of love.
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8/12/2003 - Eric wrote: 95 Points
1994 Napa Horizontal (Seattle, WA, USA): On the nose this shows mint, cola and brown sugar. On the palate this is dark & brooding, some sweetness, very, dery deep. The finish is long, extracted and endless. Nearly one minute! his one started very tight and structured and just kept opening and spreading all night long. Even when we finished it up after a few hours, it still had a long way to go.
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10/17/1999 - mdefreitas wrote: 94 Points
CT Group does 1996 Bordeaux @ Jeff S: Rich, ripe fruit. A bit tannic at this point. Seems to have the elements for a great wine, but this needs at least 5 more years.
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