Opened three hours before serving with poached salmon at home. A delightful surprise. Fully mature, slightly on the lighter side, nice oak, smooth tannins, a little vanilla, leather, berry. Typical napa cab at the higher end of spectrum.
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Well made juice for the money. Nice thick nose of blackberries, cigar and cedar. Full flavored blackberry, raspberry and vanilla with nice dusty tannins and a perfect dose of oak. Not a monumental wine but one that should hold up for 5-7 years. Well made and a great QPR.
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This is a nice performer for a 'budget' Napa cab. It has very pretty and high toned cherry and raspberry on the nose along with a dusty earthiness. The palate follows with the same red fruits and adds black or boysenberry flavors. This wine is medium bodied and the fruits, while concentrated, do not seem over extracted or heavy. It also possesses a refreshing level of acidity, delicious ripe tannin, and a lovely long finish. Unless I am being totally fooled somebody did a great job in the vineyard to produce this wine. Outstanding.
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2/20/2014 - capacious Likes this wine: 92 Points
Opened three hours before serving with poached salmon at home. A delightful surprise. Fully mature, slightly on the lighter side, nice oak, smooth tannins, a little vanilla, leather, berry. Typical napa cab at the higher end of spectrum.
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5/7/2008 - MJTed wrote: 90 Points
Started with a bit of oaked funk that blew off after about an hour. Nice structure and complexity for the money.
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8/25/2007 - thenapalist wrote: 91 Points
Well made juice for the money. Nice thick nose of blackberries, cigar and cedar. Full flavored blackberry, raspberry and vanilla with nice dusty tannins and a perfect dose of oak. Not a monumental wine but one that should hold up for 5-7 years. Well made and a great QPR.
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8/24/2007 - MJTed wrote: 90 Points
Nice bottle. A little of everything I love about Napa Cab without too much of anything.
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5/19/2007 - greenblanket wrote:
This is a nice performer for a 'budget' Napa cab. It has very pretty and high toned cherry and raspberry on the nose along with a dusty earthiness. The palate follows with the same red fruits and adds black or boysenberry flavors. This wine is medium bodied and the fruits, while concentrated, do not seem over extracted or heavy. It also possesses a refreshing level of acidity, delicious ripe tannin, and a lovely long finish. Unless I am being totally fooled somebody did a great job in the vineyard to produce this wine. Outstanding.
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