2002 Larkmead Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (127) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  5/9/2022 - capacious Likes this wine: 94 Points

  How sweet when you wait, and wait, and it worked! Not sure this can get any better, but it’s drinking very well now, with a bit of Napa sweet chocolate, leather and black and dark fruits. Great viscous feel, lengthy finish. Evolved beautifully. Clearly my prior predictions were short sighted, or I was lucky here. Anyhow, now, for sure, drinking great now and who knows what’s to come

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  5/2/2021 - sdwineguru Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Evolving Napa Cabernet 2002 Larkmead ($40 in 2006). Mid-brick, amber edges, viscous (14.7 alc.); big berry nose, ripe grapes, tobacco, cedar; mid-big body; softening tannins; emerging Cabernet fruit; long layered finish. w/flat iron steak. 17 UC Davis scale, 92 other scales.

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  11/6/2019 - bobh22314 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Purple in the center to a bricking rim. Black fruits and minerals. Tons of fruit still left. Smooth with little tannins left and a long long finish
  
  Drink now or over the next year

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  7/14/2019 - JJ58 wrote:

  A real wow...no bricking,beautiful fruit...amazing !

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  4/25/2019 - Badfish Likes this wine:

  Quite amazing considering the $30 price point circa 2005, this wine is from a long lost era when Larkmead was stunningly undervalued. An intricate bouquet of plum brandy, creme de cassis, pencil shavings, pure cacao, and lavender oil. The palate is so well balanced with a still firmly structured style including rich dark fruit, sturdy yet approachable tannins, and vine ripened acidity. Remarkably youthful, this seems to have a human like aging curve as it is just entering into adulthood, give this another ten years to reach a prime drinking window.

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