1987 Livingston Moffett Cabernet Sauvignon Moffet Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  2/23/2024 - RockinCabs wrote: 94 Points

  Nose: Opens up with a deep raspberry, pencil and spice perfume, and develops deep kirsch and plum notes as well. An advancing nose, but retains a delightful freshness about it.
  
  Palate: Enters with waves of blueberry, black plum, raspberry liquor and spice notes. Glorious graphite, clove, cinnamon, and Chinese five spice notes in the mid palate are supported by a nicely weighted texture. Velvety feel gives the palate seriousness that is freshened by acidity and drive that perks up the secondary nuances of leather and library books.
  
  Finish: Lengthy and spicy today with a fully resolved tannin profile. Elegant and fine in the end.
  
  This is a wine that was made by Randy Dunn in the early days of Livingston Moffett. The vineyard was panted in 1969 on St. George roots stock so this wine is from mature vines. Unfortunate that this site was replanted as these old St. George plantings are proving to have long life and balance that is hard to comeby in Napa today.

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  10/7/2010 - impresario51 wrote:

  Undrinkable. Had to pour out, tasted like a wine that had been left open for a week - maybe worse. Too bad, this was probably delicious 5 years ago.

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  10/14/2009 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 92 Points

  I liked this one more than the group. Spice, black raspberry notes on the nose. The palate was a bit jammy and muddled but still had a lot of sweet fruit. Plenty of tannins left. I am not sure what the group didn't like as much about this wine. I thought it was in a great place. Lovely texture and complexity. Also some cofee and chocolate notes, especially on the finish.

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  10/25/1990 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 91 Points

  1987 Tasting of 6 Cabernet Sauvignons. Began with a nice, berry nose, big body of rich, cherry fruit in the mouth and medium tannins, finished slightly short but everything is present. My #2.

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