2015 Rivers-Marie Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (118) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  3/3/2024 - TheoIV Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Beautiful wine. Great nose with bright rich red fruit. Flavors of plum, dark fruit, leather, & earth. Enjoy!

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  11/19/2023 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  PnP at my sis’s, accompanying my brother in law’s boeuf bourgogne. On the nose and palate, the usual powerful and insistent TRB notes of sweet cassis, black cherries, mulberries, huckleberries, blueberries, anise, dark chocolate and, surprise, oak, vanilla and liquer. Deep magenta, full bodied, thick legs. Medium+ tannins which are very smooth, medium- acidity, slight touch of heat. VG complexity, VG++ intensity and persistence. The pendulum swings. After 10 days of Cabs and BDX blends skewing toward the strict (the Ovid aside), here comes TRB, surprisingly supplied my sis, Queen of the Old World—she blames her fondness for this on the gateway drug of RM pinots, also my first TRB wines—generous to the point of promiscuity. Singing off the pour, like so many TRB wines, this, for my palate, stays just on the right side of the luscious-cloying divide, the tannic structure in particular preventing too much leakage. The yum factor is dialed up to 11 on a 1-10 scale, the delivery accentuated by that classic TRB creaminess. If this didn’t hit the interest level of Materiums of Outpost Trues, my gold standard for his wines, albeit at more dizzying price points, it was plenty tasty and a far more appealing option for me in this genre than Silecieux or the NV Scarlett. Held pretty steady over the hour or so I had my glass and a half, so I think it will last a while but not decades, and I’m not sure aeration will add much to the drinking experience at this point. Worked well enough with the wine-laden beef, but if the evening’s entry is a less seasoned fatty piece of lamb or beef, then I’d recommend this more as a cocktail wine. At around to a bit more than this price point, I’d more often prefer wines like Forman or Mt. Brave (or finding something like the Hartwells or Riverains at auction when there are no other bidders), but I sure enjoy the TRB wines, this included, when I drink them. 93+

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  5/19/2023 - YankeeRobio wrote: 95 Points

  Incredible concentration. Huckleberry, blackberry, licorice, sweet tar.Fig/prune on the finish. Amazing wine with 20 years left in the tank.

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  5/14/2023 - Acohen Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Sweet and easy with currant, berry and cocoa

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  5/5/2023 - gharter Likes this wine: 91 Points

  PnP, no decant needed. aromas of blackfruit, cassis, anise and cedar, Loaded with flavor with red and black fruits, cedar. anise and plum. Soft tannis show up in the finish, but still smooth. Great balance.

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