1999 Hartwell Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (52) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  11/12/2023 - RockinCabs wrote: 95 Points

  Nose: Blackberry, leather, clove, blueberry and loamy earth. Palate: Seamless palate, dark berries, mineral, pencil and blue fruit notes. Refined leather, tobacco and sage. The detailed focus is impressive on the palate. Finish: Lengthy, vibrant red and blue fruit, loam and graphite.
  
  I have not had a bottle of this in over 10-yrs, but managed to find it on a steakhouse winelist for a fair price. Performing outstandingly well today.

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  7/6/2020 - Verb Likes this wine: 94 Points

  dark dark red, brick rim - effusive nose of blackberries, cassis, and mocha - somewhat more complexity than last year - full fat rich mouth up front, but less so the middle, as before - very nice acid-tannin-fruit balance - long 20-30 second finish, slight bitterness - very well developed California cab that is beginning to express more elegance than previously - most of the earlier tasting notes were focused on the wine's youthful exuberance, rather than its potential for development with age - I'll keep my last bottle another 3-5 years before I would decide on my final judgement

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  1/7/2020 - rinnocenzi Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Drink up !!! Beautiful wine

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  4/26/2019 - Verb Likes this wine: 93 Points

  dark dark red, brick rim - effusive nose of blackberries, cassis, and mocha - full fat rich mouth up front, but definite hole in the middle - nice acid-tannin-fruit balance, slightly bitter - long 20 second finish - very well developed California cab that still expresses more power than elegance - should easily go another 5-10 years, but probably at its best now

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  11/23/2017 - daved Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Wow, what a nice surprise. Opened 3 hours prior to drinking and it kept getting better throughout the day and night.

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