2015 Substance Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
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By David Lawrason
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By Paul Zitarelli
(Wines of Substance Cs Cabernet Sauvignon) Hello friends. We have a K extravaganza today, with two new wines from Charles Smith’s family of wineries, and two reoffers for spring-offered wines that received excellent reviews from Tim Fish’s recent Wine Spectator set. With four wines on offer, we’ll keep the blurbs short, and we’ll get right to it: This is a wine on the rise, ever since Charles and Brennon Leighton and co. took the brand over in 2013. It is 100% Cab, and the backbone comes from the excellent Goose Ridge Vineyard. It really gets the luxury treatment too, especially for the price point: all native yeast fermented, 35 days on skins, 50% new French oak for a year. It clocks in at 14.5% listed alc and offers a true-to-Washington-Cabernet profile: blackcurrant and black plum fruit swaddled in barrel tones of toast and smoke; plenty of toothsome finishing tannin; loads of fruit extract and intensity. The 2013 vintage sold out quickly after matching 90pt reviews from Spectator and Advocate; the 2014 after a 91pt review from Advocate. I can only imagine what’s going to happen this year. Wine Advocate: Copyrighted material withheld.
Full Pull K Vintners, 7/28/2017
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Wine Definition
- Vintage2015
- TypeRed
- ProducerSubstance
- VarietyCabernet Sauvignon
- Designationn/a
- Vineyardn/a
- CountryUSA
- RegionWashington
- SubRegionn/a
- AppellationWashington
- Display optionsDefault
- UPC/EAN Code184745003004, 184745003103, 844745003301
11/14/2023 - VlgJeff wrote: 90 Points
A 20 minute slo-ox really helped to bring this wine together. Dark purple to a faded rim. Pleasing aroma of dark fruits with a touch of chocolate. Dark berries, blackcurrant, spice, earth, and that touch of chocolate on the medium to plus palate. Relatively balancing acidity and just a touch of drying tannin on the finish. Should hold for at least a few years.
Certainly not a WOW wine but punched a bit above its $15-17 price.
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4/11/2023 - John McCabe wrote: 91 Points
Much better than the last one I had. More sweetness, still the one dimension but quite a bit more appealing.
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3/4/2023 - John McCabe wrote: 90 Points
Might be good value but not really my thing. Very linear and one-dimensional, has a petrol aspect. Not much charm, but better than a few years ago. A value I guess.
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9/8/2022 - TJay Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very good value. Dark, intense, very well made.
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7/10/2022 - daveyk39 wrote: 92 Points
This remains one of the best QPR wines of the last decade. Agree with a prior TN that it's not a long-term hold, but at 7 years it's showing development and could still use a little resolution of the tannins, so I think in the next 2 years it will reach whatever potential it has.
Right now it's full-bodied and robust. With notes of blackberry, black currant, 5 spice, licorice, and smoke. Creamy and rich, largely a mouth full of black fruit, but with streaks of red fruit and an undercurrent of umami.
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