2008 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Cask 23

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 94.1 points

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  4/30/2023 - Condrieu82 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Purchased on Heritage Auctions. Dark ruby color. After 1 hour of slox oxidation this showed dark cherries, game meat, sweet spice. Medium acidity, well-integrated tannins, polished black currants and cherries, spice, some leathery notes and forest floor, some faint leathery notes as this starts to develop some tertiary notes. The ending is long and well-balanced by some oak that does not overpower but gives it elegance. A great wine in a great drinking window now. Drink in the next 4-5 years.

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  12/11/2022 - Glenn Gilbert Likes this wine: 97 Points

  14.5% alcohol; we purchased it at the winery for $171 (includes a discount for members of Stag's Leap's wine club) on 9/16/2011 and have cellared it for over eleven years under varying conditions ranging from ideal to not so good; real cork, opened at Oak and Ember restaurant, Port St Lucie, Florida; long legs, very dark burgundy/violet; decanted and served at about 20 degrees C; the famed winery, known from the Judgement of Paris, sports a label with founder Warren Winiarski's signature; the winemakers have chosen superior grapes, derived from both volcanic and alluvial soils; the nose bowls you over -- dark cherry, generic cherry, and fruit which doesn't exist, obscure, mysterious, and inviting; full bodied with complex embroidered elements of non-light-colored fruits like cherry, plum, dark cassis, and boysenberry; muted tannins, due in part no doubt to the long cellaring, woven-in sweetness, fruitiness, sourness and minerals; an exceptional wine deserving a pairing with special beef steaks such as Wagyu or Kobe, or try with seafood hors-d'oeuvres like an assortment platter or jumbo oysters on the half shell

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  1/7/2022 - Charlie C Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Splash decanted shortly before service. Dark red color with slight fading at edges. Deep, meaty nose, black cherries. Deep, intense fruit on the palate. Black cherries, blackberries, leather, tobacco. Sweet tannins, bright acidity, great balance. Finishes long and bright with dark fruits. Still young, give it 5+ years to develop and it could drink well for another 15 years. Became brighter and redder fruited, a bit of spice with food and air. 93 points with an upside.

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  8/17/2019 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Quite green on the nose with flavors of bell pepper, leather, cassis, black pepper, and dark fruit. Dark berries, plum, spices, and a little heat on the palate. Good finish. A good wine, although not exactly my style. QPR is not great, though...

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  6/24/2017 - slapsht007 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Inky deep dark red all the way through. Rich to the nose: Raisin, spice, tobacco. Lush and chewy in the mouth. A finish that goes and goes!

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