2003 Barnett Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Spring Mountain District

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  5/4/2024 - SeanPG Likes this wine: 93 Points

  There are no detectable age markers on this, which is just incredible for a nearly 21 year old wine. No funk, ever so slight bricking, beautiful perfumed nose and excellent balance. Tannins still present, indicating more like- I would think 15 years at least.
  
  Warm berry pie, balanced tannin/ acid, wood notes of cedar still very present.
  
  Overall an excellent wine.

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  10/15/2017 - Nekodab wrote: 97 Points

  Let decant for 1hr + WOW

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  2/28/2017 - terry j Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  Very deeply colored, and appears to be healthy after 13 years. Maybe 13 is not its lucky number. The nose is powerful but not especially pleasant, reminding me just a bit of magic marker rather than pencil shavings. The palate is similarly powerful and expansive, but perhaps a bit iron-like. Acidity is nicely balanced: no problem there. This is a wine I might pair with cooked spinach ... were I ever to eat cooked spinach. It is strong like Popeye ... but I can't always understand what it's saying.
  
  Give it another 10 years and try it then! Might be a lot better.

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  2/15/2017 - Yack Man wrote: 91 Points

  Dark, plump opulent appearance but not much on the nose. On the palate, smooth, passive dark berry and dark cherry fruit, currents, elegant and feminine, some tobacco and black olives. Not a preferred preference is style for me, but not really bad at all. I would probably have a wine of this style with a meal as it would be a better experience. Wine Enthusiast gives this wine a 92 and Tanzer 90 points, I am somewhere in between.

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  8/2/2015 - alamoave Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Last bottle. Still quite good. Tannins extremely soft at this point but bing cherry and blackberry fruit flavors linger on the long finist. Barnett is worth seeking out.

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