2014 TOR Cabernet Sauvignon Cimarossa Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (32) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  3/9/2024 - Craig15 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Black and red fruit, cedar, cigar box, dried flowers, spice, pepper, vanilla, minerality. Strong tannin and acid. Mid weight on the palate. High alcohol. Finish is rather short and tart. This wine should be in a great drinking window for the next 10 years.

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  1/30/2023 - jaxpaj wrote: 95 Points

  Classic wine. Medium to light body but still had a nice and long finish.

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  1/14/2023 - gbejjani Likes this wine: 94 Points

  What a pairing! Forman 2007 and Tor Cimarossa Cabernet 2014
  Another evening with top-flight Napa Cabernets! The 2 wines were superb but also couldn't be more different. The Forman, as we know, is an exercise in restraint, balance and finesse that delivers power in a velvet glove. The Tor is an explosion of fruit and alcohol, with very little tannin and an amazing finish. Wow!!
  
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  5/29/2022 - bambam Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Still showing some tightness when first opened. Opened up after some air time. Lovely fruit and balance. Hold or drink. No rush here.

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  12/28/2021 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  First of an auction lot of 3 ($105@) 2.5 years ago. On the nose and palate, a giant bouquet of cool blue-black fruit with a slight and welcome counterpoint of some semi-sweet red cherries and currants, huge anise, leather, wet soil, minerality, dark, dark chocolate, forest floor, oak, vanilla, sweetness and a touch of heat. Deep purple, full-bodied, thick legs. Medium+, present but integrated tannins, light acidity, some heat. Excellent complexity, persistence and intensity. While CT is an invaluable resource in my wine buying, reading TNs for my wines often really shows me what a different wine drinking planet I’m on than my CT friends (not better, not worse; just different); a few PnP’d this, and one said 3 years ago to drink this in the next year. For me, this came out of the bottle, hot disjointed and sweet (good in a date, maybe, a wine not so much), and small tastes over 4.5 hours told me it still was very much not to my tastes. At that point, I poured a large glass, vigorously swirled and slowly consumed over another 1.5 hours. It steadily improved and integrated, not much subtlety nor elegance, but delicious, 93-94+. I gave it another 1.5 hours of air on night #2 before consuming and drank slowly, and it continued to deepen and become more expressive, even if this continued to skew far more toward the powerful end of the scale, and held that level well on night #3, going up a solid additional point. Still, this had nowhere near the structural core of the ‘11 of this bottling I had a year ago (that had 2 years more bottle age, and—and this will get me further excommunicated by my CT friends—some of the more giant mountain cabs from ‘11 are actually quite to my taste, general vintage issues aside, as the fruit is slightly dialed down while the structure is turned up—and while I think that this is probably 3-5 years from its peak (jazzman goes too far in the other direction, IMO, as I don’t think that the tannins and acidity will hold up for anywhere close to 25-30 years, let alone keep improving for that time), which it should hold for another 7-10 years, at least for my, and I emphasize my, tastes. Sweetness, which did integrate, if not totally go away also, over the 3 nights, aside, a very good match with a pork chop, but, while this is no Mike Smith/Kirk Venge fruit bomb, it really shines most when it’s on its own. More than solid effort, no buyer’s remorse at what I paid and likely to incrementally improve, this was just ever so slightly disappointing after that outstanding ‘11. Will hold for at least a couple of years, plan on lots of air, and look forward to my other 2 bottles. I note that this comes from a vineyard adjacent to where much of the Berlinger PR fruit originates, and I consider that very much a peer wine. 93-94+

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