Very, very nice wine. Perfect age with good fruit. Certainly better than the day-old remains of the 2000 Franciscan Oakville Cabernet that I rated 90 after first opening it. Thanks, Patrick & Rhonda!
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No bricking. Red fruits, cocoa. I detect what reminds of - for lack of anything else to compare to - "rutherford dust". A pleasant tartness. Fine grained, subdued tannins. Overall, supple and smooth. Napa cab that's settled down. Very very good.
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Agreed it lost its fruity edge after about an hour, but that didn't take away from the wonderful leathery, tobacco-ish flavor that was present throughout. A great bottle that is drinking very well right now.
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2/25/2012 - KurtVino wrote:
- Garnet color with medium forming legs and has flavours of mushroom.
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11/22/2008 - pickhardt wrote: 91 Points
Very, very nice wine. Perfect age with good fruit. Certainly better than the day-old remains of the 2000 Franciscan Oakville Cabernet that I rated 90 after first opening it. Thanks, Patrick & Rhonda!
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4/7/2008 - Nico P. wrote:
No bricking. Red fruits, cocoa. I detect what reminds of - for lack of anything else to compare to - "rutherford dust". A pleasant tartness. Fine grained, subdued tannins. Overall, supple and smooth. Napa cab that's settled down. Very very good.
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10/28/2006 - randymac88 wrote: 93 Points
Agreed it lost its fruity edge after about an hour, but that didn't take away from the wonderful leathery, tobacco-ish flavor that was present throughout. A great bottle that is drinking very well right now.
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10/2/2006 - mrabinowitz wrote:
Started off very nice and then it lost all of its fruit.
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