I was stunned. Still very much alive. Great fruit, nice balance with still sturdy backbone of soft tannins. Tasted a bottle a couple of years ago and it must have been going through a dumb phase because it was nowhere near the full bodied Spring mountain Cab that it was today. Nice blackberry, black stone fruit, a little anise and some lavender along with some subtle smoky oak. My last bottle and was expecting this to be a little past its prime but was mistaken. Nice bottle!
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Near perfection. Tasted at 1 hour, 2 hours and 3 hours in the decanter. Elegant and well defined throughout. Anise and black stone fruit early but opened up into aromas of violets and flavors of blackberries as well as black stone fruit with a little leather. Fabulous!
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2000 Sherwin Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Spring Mountain District
1/18/2011 - tsfab wrote: 93 Points
I was stunned. Still very much alive. Great fruit, nice balance with still sturdy backbone of soft tannins. Tasted a bottle a couple of years ago and it must have been going through a dumb phase because it was nowhere near the full bodied Spring mountain Cab that it was today. Nice blackberry, black stone fruit, a little anise and some lavender along with some subtle smoky oak. My last bottle and was expecting this to be a little past its prime but was mistaken. Nice bottle!
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2002 Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley
1/11/2011 - tsfab wrote: 88 Points
Still plenty of fruit. Missouri oak still evident but well balanced.
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2002 Ghost Horse Cabernet Sauvignon
1/10/2011 - tsfab wrote: 99 Points
Near perfection. Tasted at 1 hour, 2 hours and 3 hours in the decanter. Elegant and well defined throughout. Anise and black stone fruit early but opened up into aromas of violets and flavors of blackberries as well as black stone fruit with a little leather. Fabulous!
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