2015 Detert Family Vineyards Cabernet Franc Oakville

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  1/13/2023 - jshufelt wrote: 93 Points

  Consistent with our previous tasting note (all the way down to the excessive amount of sediment - please trust me when I suggest that you really need to use a filter for this one...)

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  11/14/2022 - BadOyster wrote: 92 Points

  Iron, herb, and tomato leaf opposite red and dark fruits. It comes across with a savory and strong steely mineral core right before a strong tannic presence that takes over the finish. It’s a baby. Don’t even attempt it.

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  7/20/2022 - jshufelt wrote: 93 Points

  Pop and pour into a decanter, which was a bit of a production - the filter clogged up *three times* with very fine sediment during the decant, leaving something more akin to dark violet tomato puree on the last round of filtering than the small bit of sediment I usually see on the first (and usually only) round. I've never had a bottle throw that much sediment.
  
  But as is usually the case, the sediment-heavy wines deliver the goods. In the glass, rich, deep violet at the rim, shading to near black at the core. On the nose, a blast of currants, stepping aside to reveal crushed plums and a faint note of green pepper, albeit atypically reticent for a cab franc. On the palate, tooth-staining and saturated with fruit, including currants, plums, and blueberries, and a tannic backbone that begins modestly and asserts itself on a long finish. Will the tannins ultimately dominate, or will a balance be reached in 5-10 more years of cellar time? It's a tossup.

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  3/30/2021 - Papillon1112 wrote: 95 Points

  Drinking beautifully. This bottle had sediment that needed to be removed. Easy fix.
  Drink or hold another 2 years but why wait it’s that good.

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  3/19/2021 - Some49Dude wrote:

  Excellent wine, strong but not too much, a real find

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