2002 Three Dog Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  5/10/2023 - aero wrote:

  Medium bodied, traditional styling, high quality but weakening natural cork.
  
  Third bottle in 6 years. With my mind's eye I can pick on this wine in little ways: linear nose, slightly bitter mid-palate, medium finish... but my hedonistic flesh wants two more cases. Now. Every sip has me holding up the glass up to light mouthing "wow".
  
  This style is a rarity: truly racy acidity paired with full ripeness in a CS. That combination brings out a pure, bright, translucent red currant quality that has been wholesale lost to bigger, fatter Cabernets for many decades. Especially since around 2000 when fruit-forward Napa Cabs took over the hearts and minds of consumers worldwide.
  
  If any Intel founders are reading this, please keep releasing vintages. This is a potential cult wine; an off-beat treasure.

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  8/8/2022 - Nico P. Likes this wine:

  12.7% ruby red core dark pink rim. Refreshing tartness. Tannins: silky and integrated. 20 Sec finish. On the nose lifted complex fruit scents; in the mouth, tastes and retronasal scents of strawberry, cranberry, blueberry, black cherry, dried rose petals; plums and dark chocolate on the finish. Hint of sweetness on entry. This is really good.

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  4/24/2021 - rjquillin Likes this wine:

  Just digging around didn't know I had this, random pull.
  What a surprise. Quite nice, classic, 12.7AbV, not overblown, CA CS with years, imo, to go. Improved over days in the fridge. Will be sorry when the others are gone. DB '25+ for now

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  4/12/2020 - despore Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Fantastic aged Santa Cruz Mt Cabernet. Perfectly balanced, cedar box, black currant, dirt, mushrooms. Only 2 left and probably has only a few years left.

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  10/22/2018 - aero Likes this wine: 92 Points

  2nd bottle. Still going strong, the acidity here is so zippy - gives it characteristics of age and youth. Lighter for a California cab with delicious bright red fruit and uplifting finish. Fair length and complexity as well. Less lactic qualities than last time.

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