1996 La Jota Cabernet Sauvignon Anniversary Release

Community Tasting Notes (67) Avg Score: 93.7 points

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  1/1/2024 - Joealex Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Color is opaque black without of any sign of old wine fading.
  Initally smell was shy and wine needed to be decanted 2 hours to open up buquet.
  After 2 hs buquet became intense, sweet, fresh and was like smelling of fresh smashed blackberries, currants, cherries on palm completed with cigar tobacco, you immediately want to try the first sip.
  There is sweet core of balck and red fruits which is unique seal/stamp for highest quality wines from Napa region. This sweet core is wrapped by a lot of silk like tannins. Amazing balance of sweet black/red friuts, silk tannins, accidity and structure. Simply WOW!
  In aftertaste still there is "lion's claw" whis suggests that wine still remains in excellent condition a few more years.
  Wine is concentrated, smooth like texture with silk like tannins, intense with long afterstate ( almost a minute). Elegant style as many top quality wines form legendary Napa period 1990-1997, not as heavy or clumsy or alcoholic as so many Napa caberntes form 2012 till present years.
  This is true testament of greatness of Helen Turley winemaking from her prime career and legendary Napa period of 1990-1997.
  One of the best wines of my life and probably the best wine of 2024 which has just started .

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  7/6/2023 - hcampana Likes this wine: 93 Points

  From magnum. Wine shows no age in color. Still broodingly dark. The nose is intense, dominated by deep black fruits, but lacked the complexity I expected after keeping it 27 years in the cellar. In the mouth, the wine is full bodied, with tannins almost completely resolved, with a thick fruit core. The finish was slightly hot. It is a bit dissapointing that the wine shows so little evolution after such a long cellar storage. Except for the mellowing of the tannins, this tasted like a 5 year old bottle of Howell Mountain wine. I don't see this wine improving. Drink up.

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  4/28/2023 - ben7210 wrote:

  WB DC Offline - Mostly Napa (Bistrot Lepic): Deep ruby. Tobacco cedar and leather on the nose. On the palate very tight, black fruit and tobacco box but drops off fast, short finish. Not sure what to make of this, could be over the hill, could be bottle variation, could be in a weird phase.

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  11/29/2022 - JCGuthrie wrote: flawed

  Very slightly corked

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  11/9/2022 - Quinn05 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Hundred Acre wine tasting: Blind. Vibrant with lots of fruit. Young fruit too, with most tasters calling 2001. Beautiful focus of the fruit. "Aristocratic", as one of us remarked. Round and smooth. Much more Californian than the Togni. And there is definitely still potential, I'm very curious how this will be in 5 years.

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