2013 Mark Herold Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Stagecoach Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 94.9 points

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  1/3/2024 - Racer117 wrote:

  Too big and brutish for my taste buds, but a quality wine to be sure. Very dark in color and profile with loads of dark berry, plum, and alcohol. Needs food!

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  5/18/2019 - pickhardt wrote: 94 Points

  I don't want to be a sycophant, but I think this is the best wine I have ever purchased (it's also the most expensive for a 750ml bottle by a little). Amazing nose, huge body, great depth of fruit, and a long, long finish. I'm sure there are better wines, so it's not 100, but wow. I'm VERY glad I have another bottle.

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  5/6/2019 - ecola Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Ripe and rich blackberry, dark cherry on the full body. Needs thirty minutes to open up. Long and intense finish.

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  12/14/2018 - csimm wrote: 92 Points

  2013 Herold Coombsville and 2013 Herold Stagecoach Cabernets side-by-side.
  
  The Coombsville opened up with gritty and sediment-swirling black and dark purple-red core fruit, with a funky railroad tie note that at times added interest, and at other times seemed a bit distracting. Medium-to-full bodied, with earthy black cherry and freshly turned soil notes carrying the majority of the flavor profile. Finished crunchy. Ultimately, the nicely concentrated mid-palate drop provided much needed focus and depth, saving this wine from coming off too podunk rustic overall.
  
  The Stagecoach had a near-identical flavor profile, but showed less “True Grit” than the Coombsville. Cleaner on the back end, but still carrying a bit of a funk-a-licious tail. Some chocolate and oak char mask the wet wood notes from becoming too FarmVille. A little more drive and speed here than the Coombsville.
  
  Such the conundrum. Both wines either need more time...OR... time has not been a friend to them and the future is, well.... uncertain.
  
  Hold for another year, just because I can’t go back in time and don’t know what else to do. I used to be super high on these wines. Not sure what the deal is yo...?!?

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  11/23/2018 - vpoms wrote: 92 Points

  Deep purple color. Clean nose of pronounced intensity of blackberry, black cherry, black pepper, flint, cedar and leather. The wine is developing. On the palate it is dry with medium plus acidity, medium plus tannin, high alcohol, full body pronounced flavor intensity of black cherry, flint, bitter chocolate, leather. The finish is medium plus. Very good wine, can drink now but can definitely benefit of 5 more years of aging.

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