Beautiful dark purple black color. Dark fruit on the nose. Minimal if any tanin left Fantastic balance. Drinking beautifully. Will not likely improve with more time. Drink now.
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Another beautifully balanced, great expression of a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. It has an awesome finish, great fruit, and tannins are now nice and soft and provide a nice backbone to the wine. If you have one of these and have not opened it in a while, do so. I don't see it getting much better, but I don't see it turning the corner downhill either. I wish we had more...
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This is not a bad wine, just far over the hill with very heavy flavors of baked prunes, dark molasses and a mouthful of spices. It reminds me of the food I bought from Turkish vendors in the gold souk bazaar of Istanbul where any meal with below average ingredients could be "improved" by adding soaked cherries, local spices, and oak & smoke flavors. One positive: the wine is unfined & unfiltered.
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This was ok but very disappointed I how this 2007 held up. Great vintage but this was kind of flabby. Have 3 mor and wish I would have opened sooner. Maybe the bottle? Will try another soon. A wine at this price point in a good vintage should much better!
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12/17/2023 - ragtop Likes this wine: 96 Points
Beautiful dark purple black color. Dark fruit on the nose. Minimal if any tanin left Fantastic balance. Drinking beautifully. Will not likely improve with more time. Drink now.
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5/3/2023 - RJ&JJ Likes this wine: 94 Points
Another beautifully balanced, great expression of a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. It has an awesome finish, great fruit, and tannins are now nice and soft and provide a nice backbone to the wine. If you have one of these and have not opened it in a while, do so. I don't see it getting much better, but I don't see it turning the corner downhill either. I wish we had more...
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12/16/2022 - Sanlucar wrote: 87 Points
This is not a bad wine, just far over the hill with very heavy flavors of baked prunes, dark molasses and a mouthful of spices. It reminds me of the food I bought from Turkish vendors in the gold souk bazaar of Istanbul where any meal with below average ingredients could be "improved" by adding soaked cherries, local spices, and oak & smoke flavors. One positive: the wine is unfined & unfiltered.
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9/3/2022 - pinotluvr wrote: 90 Points
Time to drink up.
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8/6/2022 - pinotluvr wrote: 90 Points
This was ok but very disappointed I how this 2007 held up. Great vintage but this was kind of flabby. Have 3 mor and wish I would have opened sooner. Maybe the bottle? Will try another soon. A wine at this price point in a good vintage should much better!
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