2012 Spier Cabernet Sauvignon 21 Gables

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 89.4 points

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  10/3/2023 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 90 Points

  A deep ruby colour. Plenty of soft, sweet baking spices and spice cake on the nose alongside ripe blackcurrant, woodsmoke, and a significant influence from oak. Full-bodied, the palate resembles a crushed velvet texture extending to a supple mid-palate with vanilla, coconut cream and spice joined by black fruits. Reasonably sophisticated and approachable and with a long-ish length, the finish is warming. A delicious wine closes with ripe, oven-baked fruit flavours but veers, in glass, to smoke, and a slight ash note starts to creep in. It lacks a little freshness but would pair nicely with a cut of red meat.

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  1/26/2020 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Deep ruby red. Classic Cabernet aromas fo blackcurrant, chocolate, fresh earth, toasty oak, vanilla and spice. As the wine opened more blueberry.
  A sweet entry with plenty of rich textural feel; full bodied with fair power and bags of black fruits and oak influences: cassis, raisin, dark chocolate (70%) and vanilla pod.
  A well structured, gutsy wine with some glycerol coating the mid palate giving some generosity and a long, winding finish. The tannins are powdery and firm yet have an approachability to them, making for a delicious modern NW wine.

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  2/1/2016 - dissler Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Dark in colour and full. typical SA notes, both in nose and taste (is there pinotage in there?). Rough and with character. Slight tannin overhang, but not necessarily in a bad way. I like that it is full but not fruity. Is very well made and has class.

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  9/29/2015 - Leto South Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Opaque, deep red, blueing rim. Blueberries, smoke, oak, dark berries, whiff of mint(?). Warm, jammy fruit, pine needles (?), good acidity and prominent tannins. Almost full-bodied. Long, alcoholic aftertaste. Quite nice for a weekday dinner!

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  9/15/2015 - Zipra wrote: 87 Points

  Bluered, very dense.
  
  Powerful big & fruity scent of blackcurrant, cherry, ceder, leader, forets berries, anamalistic tones.
  
  Powerful taste ogf tobacco, choclat, ceder. Powerful tannins, medium acidity, coarse. Mediu, aftertaste.
  
  The powerful, alcohol will benefit from a cpopple opm more years in the cellar.

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