2011 Hewitt Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (49) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  1/7/2024 - Darwine Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This wine opened up nicely after 12 years resting. Nose of leather and some floral herbal notes. Flavors followed with some dark fruit, dark plum and blackberry. The tannins were well balanced and expressive. The finish exhibited the tannins and dark fruit leaving it long. A great wine!!

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  4/11/2023 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine:

  6th and last of a half case, consumed over the past 9 years. Consistent in qualities and quality, and very much in keeping with my comments from my 8/21 TN. This has continued to integrate so that it drinks well off the pour, and drank very similarly over 3 nights. While I’m not quite sure I go with darwine that it’s one of the best ‘11s (which my friends on CT would view as damning with faint praise), it *is*, IMO, one of the best valley floor ‘11s and a solid and enjoyable wine, even if it still lacks a bit of the power of many other vintages of this bottling. While a recent ‘09 was drinking better out of the chute, this held considerably better with air, and while I don’t think that there’s upside, I don’t think you need to go out and drink your remaining bottles tonight (the next couple of years should be fine, and I’m pulling in my window accordingly). I regret panicking with cacophony of voices proclaiming the lousiness of this vintage and drinking my relatively few bottles from it quickly; as I noticed with this and the last bottle or 2 of a case of Etude that I finished a couple of years ago, this vintage matured glacially, and while its apogee is lower, in some cases, considerably, than the adjacent vintages, it’s not one of those wipeout vintages, like 2002 in Italy. An honorable 92+ if scoring.

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  12/21/2022 - Darwine Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Wonderful full bodied wine! Nose of dark fruit primarily of ripe dark plum, blackberry, touch of leather and wood. Flavors followed with great fruit forward black fruit - plums , baked black cherry, blackberry and a surprising twinge of bright fruit leading to a long finish of dark fruit, leather and wood with a lingering flavor of dark fruit, chocolate and some vanilla. Great wine - almost a delicious fruit bomb.

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  4/16/2022 - ccbradley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Fruit has significantly mellowed. Paired well with cheese. Drink now.

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  12/25/2021 - Snag One Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Nice tannins and acidity. Good complexity and nice finish.

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