2013 Kendall-Jackson Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 88.6 points

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  1/12/2023 - Alaskawino Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Working well with 2 hour opening.

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  6/1/2022 - forceberry wrote: 88 Points

  A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (97%), Cabernet Franc (1%) Petit Verdot (1%), Malbec (0,5%), Merlot (0,5%). Aged for 14 months in used French oak (44%), new French oak (29%) and American oak (27%) barrels. 14,5% alcohol, 5,8 g/l acidity and pH 3,7.
  
  Dense, opaque blackish-red color with a subtly evolved pomegranate hue. The nose feels big, ripe and somewhat toasty with dark-toned aromas of sweet black cherries, some evolved pruney tones, light coffee notes of toasted oak, a little bit of wizened blackcurrant, a hint of woody spice and a touch of blood. The wine feels ripe, dense and rather concentrated on the palate with a full body and bold flavors of coffee and toasty oak spice, some ripe blackcurrant tones, a little bit of sweet black cherry, light chocolatey nuances of mocha oak, a hint of blueberry and a touch of woody old oak. The wine feels quite stern and muscular with its rather high acidity and rather grippy and assertive tannins. The finish is ripe, rich and pretty tannic with intense flavors of ripe blackcurrants, some coffee tones, a little bit of juicy raspberry, light savory woody tones, a sweet hint of black cherry and a chocolatey touch of toasty oak spice.
  
  A rather modern and toasty Sonoma Cab with lots of fruit, body and oak - but, fortunately, enough structure to back it all up. Flavor-wise this wine really isn't in my wheelhouse, seeing how liberally oaked the wine is, what with all its notes of coffee, chocolate and toasted oak. However, I get a feeling that the wine has benefited from aging and it seems to be developing in the right direction. Based on the combination of fruit intensity and firm structure here, if all goes well, this wine will be much better in another decade or two; I hope by then most of the oak influence has integrated with the fruit and subsided into the background and the fruit flavors have developed from ripe and sweet to more evolved, savory and tertiary. I wouldn't touch this wine for now, but instead leave it to age and improve - with some luck, this rather modern and polished Cab might have turned into something interesting and rewarding if cellared for long enough.

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  4/7/2022 - Wfekeci@gmail.com wrote:

  Drank in Jordan Not bad

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  9/27/2019 - Jochems wrote: 85 Points

  Dark purple colour. Full aromas of ripe blackcurrant, toast and some green peper. Full bodied with chewy tannins and ripe fruit, slightly hot. Medium-long finish.

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  8/22/2019 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

  Aromatic minty nose, some earthy spice, stewed fruit,
  Some nice bite here, tannins that grab and then melt away, pencil shaving notes, but overall quite soft and fruity, strawberries, with toasty roasty notes, a little tobacco and leather too.
  This is really rather nice. In a good place age wise.
  Around £25 a bottle. You could probably do better from Bordeaux or Chile but not vastly better.

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