2007 Crocker & Starr Cabernet Sauvignon Stone Place

Community Tasting Notes (30) Avg Score: 93.2 points

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  10/28/2022 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Brought by cyclist to the Mustard’s dinner. Wonderful nose and palate with blackberries, red cherries, cedar, rose petals, tobacco, graphite, cassis and plums. Medium to dark purple, medium to full bodied, medium legs. Medium tannins and medium+ acidity, both well integrated, no heat. VG+ complexity, VG intensity and persistence. Cyclist has been a real evangelist for this label—we had a fun tasting there where I bought a bottle of the current release—and I can see why. the most BDX-inflected of the cabs we drank with dinner (a bit of a surprise, as cyclist may have the most modern palate), this wine, like the current releases, and the Arrow & Branch offerings for that matter, reflects the winemaker’s Spottswoode lineage. Elegant and subtle without in any way being soft, like the Abreu and Tynan, it excelled with food and without, showing wonderfully between sweet and savory, fruit and secondary notes and structure. This tastes well into its ideal drinking window, yet also like it should have 3-5 years of equal quality drinking for well-stored bottles. Behind the Abreu and close to to but edged out, for my tastes by the Tynan, this wine challenges my desiderata of what I most want in a bottling when poured against bigger bottles—at least those bigger bottles—and seems like it would shine brightest in more of an atmosphere of quiet contemplation, but it was still excellent on this evening, and I’m appreciative of cyclist for putting me onto this label and the tremendous hospitality shown by the C&S crew during our tasting. 94-95+

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  10/27/2022 - csimm wrote: 94 Points

  Purple plum, blackberry, cedar, and hints of leather. A smooth and fulfilling entry that speaks to a nicely aged red with the seeming ability to evolve into its tertiary flavors with poise. There is a confident saturation here that allows for worthy gratification, but also a sense of deliberateness that too will continue to offer pleasure down the road. Drinks fine now but can also be held for a handful of years without compromising freshness. Unlike many 2007s, this has not imploded on itself or become too ripe-flabby. Solid effort.

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  6/5/2020 - aerosol Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Intense floral and perfume nose; it’s hard to stop snifting. A great deep red color and lots of legs. The wine is both soft on the palate yet big and bold as well. I get lots of forward fruit with dark blackberry, cherry cola, oak, vanilla and soft but pronounced tannins. Everyone here loves the wine

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  7/24/2019 - Coachron13 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Really in an excellent place. Calmed some over the course of four hours open. Should drink well until 2025, think the CT window thru 2031 is a little optimistic.

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  6/15/2019 - scotty_b wrote: 94 Points

  2 hour decant. Blackberry, tobacco, bubble gum, cedar, orange peel. Velvety mouthfeel with medium tannins. Drink up.

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