2013 Stewart Cabernet Sauvignon Nomad

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  8/20/2023 - gteran76 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Always great. Short double decant (15 min) and solid during the 2 hours of eating Filet Mignon and Truffe Mc&Cheese.

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  8/18/2023 - Tym4wine Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Lovely floral aromas. Deep dark red nearly black in the glass. Amazing color and clarity. Wonderful dark fruit flavors with rounded tannins and perfect acidity. This is a fantastic wine and certainly the outstanding one of the evening. Fantastic.

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  9/9/2022 - Christieluvwine Likes this wine:

  Far from peak but drinking amazing. Lots of complex flavors like blueberry, chocolate, vanilla. Enjoy!

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  12/30/2017 - drdan8 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A nice rendition of Napa CS, both polished and refined in its elements.
  Overt nose of cassis, blackberry, and sweet dark fruit. Sumptuous on the palate although a bit monolithic.
  
  Sweet blackberries, bitter chocolate, tart raspberry, and a dose of vanilla bean coat the entire mouth. Lingering medium finish. This is a stellar wine to pair with a bone in ribeye or prime rib.
  
  No new frontiers explored here, but a very solid and enjoyable Cabernet !

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  12/11/2017 - msuwine wrote: 94 Points

  This polished and complex 100% Cabernet is drinking wonderfully right now, especially after a few hours of air. Raspberry in color, full in body, incredible and enticing nose of freshly-baked cherry pie, dark chocolate, and baking spices. Tates of blueberry, boysenberry, graphite, and vanilla bean, with a lingering finish that packs a bit of a sour bite but has fully integrated its tannins (a surprise given the vintage). 14.5% alcohol.
  
  My personal view is that this is about $25-50 over-priced - hardly a mortal sin in the Napa marketplace, but something I mention for those of us for whom price is relevant. This lacks the complexity and depth of the LPV's from Carter or Fait-Main, which I've purchased at a similar price (around $175). I also wonder how well it will age, since it seems to be peaking early. (And, on the practical level, the entry-level Cabernet offers some of the same profile at half the price.) As a result, I docked this a point - tastes like a 95 in an abstract world, but price brings it down to a 94.
  
  For what it's worth, I tasted this next to a 2013 Carter Fortuna, and the Stewart had a slight edge. The Fortuna packed just as much punch - in terms of fruit, alcohol, and tannin - but the the Stewart had a touch more finesse and openness. Then again, the Fortuna is quite cheaper. In short, the Stewart is a lovely wine that, if I ever found it at a discount, I'd buy in bulk.

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