1999 Cakebread Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (44) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  11/23/2023 - SFDoug wrote:

  Held up better than expected. Probably was much better a few years ago, however!

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  9/30/2021 - Jerry 3 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Bought two bottles of this vintage plus several others too July 2921 from a friend who sold his house and needed to liquidate his wine inventory.
  
  I was told it was a gamble for the older wines but for $25 I took the gamble and drank it happily.
  
  Cork broke / filtered it and even ran thru an aireater a few times and let sit. Surprisingly, it had no acidity and berry flavor was still enjoyable
  
  Sorry but wanted to share the buy story that worked out,

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  6/11/2021 - vinopunk Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Cork broke, but bottle seemed well stored otherwise. Total California fruit bomb. Not my favorite style, and not what I'd personally spend the money on, but always happy to be able to try such things.

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  5/2/2020 - callmeacab22 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Still doing well. I would not call it a "knock your socks off" cab, but it was solid. Decanted twice, yet it still took a couple hours before reaching it's potential.

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  8/26/2018 - dmodguy Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Oh, what a disaster. Some of my cellar is getting some age on it. Too much age. To help reduce it I am making some of the over the hill but still Ok stuff into Sangria. This published drinking window was over in 2011. My cellar is a perfect 55 but 2011. I opened it, smelled it to determine it was OK, poured an ounce or two in a wine glass to see how bad it was and poured the rest into Sangria. Then I tasted the wine in the glass. Did I know I wasted some great wine?!?! I have a bottle left and it won't go into Sangria for sure. From what I could tell from the little I drank of it RUSTYRUDY'S notes are right on target.

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