2001 Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Spottswoode Estate Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (171) Avg Score: 93.2 points

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  4/19/2024 - advinm41 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Delicious mature Cab! Nose of blueberries, plums compote, figs, anise, sandalwood and spices. Palate is incredible, very suave and polished, with black and blue fruits, sweet tannins, lots of layers of complexity and long finish.

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  4/16/2024 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Mmm, gorgeous. This has a wonderful combination of mainly darker damson fruits balanced with a wonderful structure of freshness and very fine tannins. There is some tar and mocha behind the fruit. Mid weight, this is elegant. Long and developing complexity. Drinking beautifully now and will last forever.

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  4/8/2024 - Papies wrote:

  Kendrick’s Wine Club (67 Pall Mall, London): It has been close to a decade since we had this ( Papies 93 back 2016 ) and granted our palate and interest have changed a lot since then.
  The wine had a touch of TCA , not always noticeable but every now and then it would pinch you just to piss one off that it’s there and make one wonder what is has been its effect. The issue we saw with the wine ( made in the glory days of Parkerisation) is that the wine felt a bit burnt and definitely now paying the prices for being pushed and the grapes left to over ripen. Has that “Portuguese “ burnt red wine feel that is just enough to spoil ( along with the the TCA for sure) what should have been a top end result. Maybe it’s the vintage maybe it’s a change in their methods but definitely a far cry from the old school beauties they used to produce in the 90s . We will not rate but did not feel bette than a 90-91

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  3/31/2024 - Genghis88 wrote: 93 Points

  ****See previous note (four years since my last bottle)
  
  Ox-blood in color
  
  My last bottle and just in time. Drink now.
  
  Super smooth. All profiles integrated. Lots of leather and fruit jerky. Medium plus finish. Absolutely delicious with today's Easter scratch roast duck.
  Great wine. A little expensive IMHO.

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  2/24/2024 - lesz Likes this wine: 91 Points

  not quite as good as my last bottle

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