2004 Colgin Cabernet Sauvignon Herb Lamb

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 95.4 points

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  5/28/2023 - I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Wild and Crazy Memorial Weekend - Sunday (Chris' Castle aka Melissa's Manor): A very nice Colgin, and provides some insight as to how these age. This is in a pretty good place right now for my palate....not sure if it is the style, winemaking or vineyard. Always a treat to taste Colgin as I don't own many (at this price range, you need to pick and choose, and I chose Harlan wines, i.e., Harlan, Promontory and Bond...yes, I know a couple of those are more expensive than Colgin). Anyway, this was delicious and in a much better place than its siblings (Cariad and IX) even though those will likely be better wines with more age....Ironically, the 2005 IX seemed way WAY younger than this wine, despite only being a year apart.
  
  2004 Colgin Hertb Lamb - plenty of red fruit and black raspberry couples with some earthy notes, forest floor, pencil lead and leather notes. Very elegant....this wine is not about power, but elegance, which it pulls off effortlessly. In a great spot now! 94 and should hold for another year or so.

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  5/28/2023 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Best of the World Wine Night (ex-Italy) (The csimm_M Estate): Briefer note than the other Colgins, both because I had only one taste, midway through, and I’m getting fatigued with writing these notes, still not finished, now more than 10 days after. This was a bit lighter and browner, solid on the palate and nose with black and red cherries, plums and currants, forest floor, wet earth and mixed ground spice. What’s most notable here is the contrast with the 2 Cariads and the CIX, not so much in quality, which was extremely high for all bottles, but in overall affect, as pointed out by WBW and BS. This is immediately accessible, beautifully balanced and gentle, with none of the sense of the molten core of the other 3 bottles. As I’ve not had this before and don’t know this particular bottle’s history, I’m not sure how much of that is winemaking style, bottle storage or individual bottle variation (or Dave’s aeration ablutions, for that matter), this presents as a drink now/soon wine, vs. the others, including the CIX, a mere year younger, which, despite already being exquisite, present the possibility of still better days to come. Not in the top group, but solid in the group just behind them, which wasn’t a bad place to be. 95-96+

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  5/28/2023 - bsumoba Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Memorial Madness at Case de Chris y Melissa - Day 2 of 2: Such a shame that they do not produce wine from Herb Lamb. This wine was very good. Less opulent than the Cariad or IX and more restrained for me, showing a bit less fruit and more secondary notes of herbs, spices and mushrooms. I am imagining a super ripe plum being reduced in a stainless pot with some herbs. If I have to imagine, I would have preferred this a few years younger but for the person who loves slightly older aged Napa, this is going to be your jam for sure.

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  5/28/2023 - WineBurrowingWombat Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Memorial Day Weekend, Day 2: The Great Gatsby: Nose of intense but nicely integrated dark red fruits, deep earth and gentle note of spiced used for cooking (I couldn't tell you what for the life of me).
  
  Flavors dark powdered graphite, similarly intense fruits from the nose with a brooding aspect.
  
  I'm happy to see this is holding up well.. hoping that it is demonstrating quality and life of their wines. I do get a sense of wavering on the body and mouthfeel though but hard to say since that should be expected with a wine with age.

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  5/4/2023 - mchern02 wrote: 95 Points

  Double Decant for two hours
  
  Dark brooding character, big and brambly with rich dark red fruit, great body and texture, good lift. Lengthy and youthful, even better in the future if it relaxes. Not my stylistic choice but a pristine california cab for those that like it.

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