2015 Amapola Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Estate

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  1/5/2024 - Mattshank wrote: 92 Points

  1 hour slow ox. Nose: Same Spring Mountain minerality as previous bottles. Cherries abound with mint hints. Palate: Red fruits with the minerals showing. Fabulous just like previous bottles and does not show any of the 15.2 % alc level. Given how soft the tannins are I would not decant this but rather slow ox it to eliminate the risk of over oxidation.

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  4/20/2023 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Coravined a glass off last night, 95 to start. Big, juicy dark red ripe fruit, excellent acidity and integrating tannins. Nothing harsh, but perhaps a little of the 15.2% alc prominent. Two hours later, juicy leaves, blacker fruit emerges, it calms down and drops a point or two in my book to a 93.
  
  Opened the rest of the bottle tonight to have with Carol's awesome Miso Sea Bass and wild rice with mushrooms. Heaven in a glass. Smooth, dark red fruit, chalky minerality and it's juicy and flavorful....lots of sweet tobacco, and loads of barrel spice, too. 95 pts once more. Two hours in again and some of the juicy leaves and it starts to replay like night #1......but the tobacco seems to be hanging on longer and stronger, which is a profile I really like, and the acidic backbone lends a certain energy and much length to the finish with spice all the way through past the finish. This wine made by Richard Arrowood is just fantastic. Not a fruit bomb Napa cab (it's actually Sonoma) but it has staying power and def aging potential. I hope in 20 more years at the age of 85, I'll be popping the last of my then, 28 yo bottles and enjoying a great aged wine of his as I do now with his 30+ yo Arrowood bottles.......averaging out my score to a 94 for this bottle. Make no mistake this is an 'in between' wine. It's not old enough or resolved enough to be a hit with the Bdx Left Bank or old time Napa crowd yet and it's not a big enough fruit bomb for the New World Cali Hedons.....

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  10/12/2022 - Dale Rattles Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Still young, with gritty and unresolved tannins, this could stand a couple more years. By day 4 (!) it was drinking better, the rough edges starting to smooth.

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  2/2/2022 - Mattshank wrote: 91 Points

  2 1/2 hour decant (mag decanter). Nose: The same sweet red, perfumy fruits show with good mineral presence. Palate: Soft styled w/ cherries showing and a touch of bitterness not shown on the last bottle. Minerals show with good acid levels and an elegant finish. Not quite as good as the last bottle (notes on 10/13/20) but still a solid 91 points. Can't go wrong with anything by Richard Arrowood IMO.

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  1/8/2022 - Jackstraw212 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This is quite good. Tart cherries, pipe tobacco, black olives, and cloves. Still huge, but very approachable right now. I'll give the next one a year or so.

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