2013 Knights Bridge Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  3/9/2024 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points

  Small Tasting & Dinner with Friends: Double blind. Inky garnet color with aromas of herbs, blackberry, cassis, plum and chocolate. Full-bodied and tannic, with flavors of plum, soy, chocolate, barrel spice and blackberry. Fine, firm tannin. Picks up a red dusty quality, almost Rutherford-like. Excellent, albeit young. (R&D)

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  9/16/2022 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points

  Friday Night Brown Bagger (R&R's): Double blind. Lighter color, looks to have some age. Wood spice, black fruit, cedar and plum notes. Full-bodied, with currant, herb and cedar on the palate. Balanced. Leaning ever so slightly towards the “old school” style of Napa cab. (R&D)

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  9/14/2021 - SMHalps Likes this wine: 93 Points

  My last of this vintage, and it still tasted like it had years of life ahead of it, but I just couldn't wait. Opened, but not decanted for 45 minutes at a NYC restaurant. Medium plus body, with a long finish.

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  9/16/2020 - SMHalps Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Opened and decanted. This still tasted young, with a lot of oak influence. Very enjoyable, and it just got better and better as the night went on.

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  5/24/2019 - SMHalps Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Blind tasting between two 2013 Knights Bridge Beckstoffer Cabernet Sauvignons. Both wines were opened, but not decanted for about 45 minutes before pouring. As a group we preferred the Dr. Crane, 3 to 1, with one person being undecided. Really not much difference between the two. The To-Kalon is about a 1/2 point lower in alcohol. Both wines show notes of coffee and dark fruit. I thought the To-Kalon was more acidic.
  
  Blind, I preferred the Dr. Crane, which is consistent with blind side by side To-Kalon/Dr. Crane tastings I have done with Realm, Paul Hobbs, and the Debate wines.

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