2007 Cain Vineyard & Winery Cain Five

Community Tasting Notes (63) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  12/23/2023 - B&T Likes this wine:

  Decanted 3 hours, drank over the next 2. Really opened up after 4 hours - resolved tannins, dark fruit on the nose and palate. Drinking fantastic- if you have a few bottles you should check in on the 2007’s development. A+

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  8/7/2023 - Gregmonroe wrote:

  I do love this wine. It is holding steady from my first time tasting in 2020 - and continues to provide evidence that Cain needs 15 years - 10 minimum - to show like this. My favorite vintages have been 2006 and 2007, though I've tasted 2009 - 2017. They are just not as integrated as this.
  
  Soft and supple, with a nose that I could smell for hours. Lots of raspberry and cherry on the nose, and on the palate - muted fruit is the best descriptor I've seen, and it fits. Not stewed fruit - it is still clean and fresh, but not in your face or extracted. A long finish, balanced tannins, taste of the vineyard, but fruit forward, though the fruit is wonderfully balanced and integrated into the complexity of the wine. This wine is on a plateau and should hold for a few years before getting into tertiary flavors.

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  1/25/2023 - dkwins Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Perhaps it is the result of age, but this is the first Cain I have truly enjoyed. The cork was black and crusty and there was no barnyard smell to detract. The fruit was a bit muted, but interesting, with raspberry most noteworthy.

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  12/30/2022 - 5laton wrote:

  In this vintage: 68% cabernet, 16% merlot, 6% malbec, 5% petit verdot, 5% cabernet franc.
  Showing appropriate development for age but this is more tarry, black-fruited and ripe than the 2008 and 2016 I've drunk this year, with black licorice and some soft funk. The alcohol feels a bit lifted here. This is clearly still very young, but at this stage it's not my favorite vintage of Cain Five I've had.

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  11/25/2022 - ocfriday Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very nice, muted fruit and light tannin's. Holding up well.

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