2016 Tusk Estates Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 97.1 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View LiteItOnFire's profile
  • Report Issue

  7/18/2023 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The wine is drinking beautifully now as it has started to evolve and open up. Beautiful structure with powdery tannins and mouthfeel gives way to dark fruits, secondary flavors of smoky notes, chocolate and mineral/earth. Beautiful wine.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View csimm's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/30/2021 - csimm wrote:

  3 days in Napa: Arkenstone, Memento Mori, Maxem, The French Laundry, Christopher Tynan, Kinsman, Harlan, Vice Versa, Accendo, Fairchild, Macdonald, and a truckload of others (Napa): This bottle is all about power right now. Black fruit and booze dominate the entry, finally relaxing after an hour or so of air. In fact, I revisited this bottle 24 hours later and it wasn’t until then that it was finally starting to calm down and show some of the otherwise tremendous core fruit elements this wine has displayed with previous bottles I’ve had. Sit on these for a while, as they are seemingly starting to get into a grumpy phase where the integration and evolution of its elements still have a bit of sorting out to do. Hold for 6+ years minimum.

  4 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View AGELVIS's profile
  • Report Issue

  1/1/2021 - AGELVIS Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Four hour decant. Deep dark magenta color. Baker’s chocolate, tea, caramel, and subtle raspberry on the nose. Super plush palate, with soft, tongue coating acidity. Firm, but simultaneously round tannins on the long finish.
  
  This was terrific, but not better than amazing $100 - $200 bottles. I’m relieved, because I cannot afford to drink this price point more than once per year. ;)

  3 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2)

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View WineBurrowingWombat's profile
  • Report Issue

  11/26/2020 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Nose: [57°] Clean and heavy deep earth, clean pencil shavings, green forest bramble, slightly damp clean oak like an ancient tree that had its bark removed, dark red fruits along with some purple currants. After about 5 hours, the nose doesn't change much but everything seems to be turned up just a bit if it's not the same.
  
  Palate: [57°] A rich and intense rush of dark fruited earth, a heavy yet fine dusting of dark pencil lead laced throughout, similar oak from the nose, dark and silvery minerals and nice steeped tea on the finish. No major difference after 5 hours, very similar if not the same.
  
  Attributes: Dark medium ruby. Dry with medium-plus amounts of fine, chewy tannin. Medium body with medium to medium-plus acidity. Great finish of about 20-24 seconds.
  
  Thoughts: I don't know how I get lucky like this sometimes but this was amazing and straight from the bottle. I poured one glass and slow-ox'ed the rest as some people seemed to recommend few hours of air time. First glass only lasted ~30 mins but it was really good. An amazing marriage of flavors - full of dark fruit, rich earth, graphite and clean oak flavors (marriage might've not been the right word). Delivery on the palate is like a river of tasty bold flavors flowing into the mouth and when it runs dry, you're left with tasty minerals. 97-98
  
  Other notes: Bordeaux glass. Poured 1 glass out, recorked and placed back into wine fridge for ~5 hrs, tilted ~45° to increase surface area. Slow-ox'ing seem to have made no difference here so maybe taste and decant if necessary. First glass blew me away, so if it treats you the same initially, might not wanna bother with a decant unless it's needed. Consumed over 6.5 hrs.

  7 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (14)

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View eschuldt's profile
  • Report Issue

  10/31/2020 - eschuldt wrote: 99 Points

  As other have said, a really special bottle. Balanced, complex and just the total package.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (5)

View all 8 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.