1999 Kendall-Jackson Cabernet Sauvignon "Great Estates"

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 88.7 points

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  10/28/2018 - Mossrose wrote: 92 Points

  Put this into a double blind tasting of wines with the theme that they might have been kept in the cellar too long. But this 19 year old wine came out swinging, as dark, delicious, rich, and well balanced, with no deterioration. As a further test, we kept it open in the refrigerator for additional week. Opaque pitch black to the edge with generous and delicious black currant, blackberry, and black cherry. Smoothly textured, refreshing acidity, and finishes dry. Originally bought this at a very good price of $18. While made in high quantity as a generic Napa Cabernet, this wine proved to be not just a fine drink now wine, but one durably delicious and ageworthy.

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  9/24/2015 - Mossrose wrote: 93 Points

  This wine showcases how delicious Cabernet Sauvignon can be from Napa County and how great the 1999 vintage was for Bordeaux grapes in California. Utterly swigable - no matter how many times you sip it, you want another sip to enjoy again, where the key to enjoying it is its fruitiness. The antithesis of backward, tart, vegetal, austere, and tight. Demonstrates how fruit is not a fragile component of Cabernet Sauvignon requiring high acid and tannin in order to age well.

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  1/11/2012 - jmottern wrote: 78 Points

  This was an average bottle of cabernet. Perhaps it was over the peak.

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  6/28/2008 - vanpe003 wrote: 90 Points

  A nice diversion....a quality wine from a high-volume producer..at a very fair price. Somewhere, I have another bottle of this. If discipline can be found, I'd like to hold it for 3-4 years. Today, this has a lot of body, but enough structure (in the form of acidity) and fruit to suggest that it may continue to improve. Delicious, but seems a shade out of sorts / out of balance today as compared to prior tasting.

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  1/10/2007 - tcfishler wrote: 89 Points

  Pop-and-pour. Almost opaque ruby-purple, with no signs of age at the rim. Heavily smoky nose, with blackberry fruit and charred oak. Sweet but very fresh in the mouth, with lively acids but tannins that are only felt late. Extracted but balanced and not heavy by any means. Air time reduced the smoke a little, bringing out cleaner fruit and some anise as well. Rather overwhelmed by smoke at this point; this one could sleep a little longer, or at least see a little decanter time.

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