2015 Burrowing Owl Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  8/8/2022 - Canoehead Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Ready to go. No decant required. Sweet dark red fruit on the nose. Tannins and alcohol in check with sweet savoury fruit. Oak treatment is a little heavy-handed. It’s a pleasant quaff if you don’t mind the perceptible vanilla spice.

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  12/4/2021 - forceberry wrote: 84 Points

  100% Cabernet Sauvignon from Okanagan Valley, harvested on November 9th and 13th, 2015. Fermented and macerated in stainless steel tanks, aged for 18 months in oak barrels. Bottled unfiltered. 14,5% alcohol, 6,7 g/l acidity, pH 3,78. Tasted blind.
  
  Almost completely opaque and somewhat concentrated garnet color with an evolved pomegranate hue. Very bold and sweet-toned yet not particularly ripe nose with very juicy aromas of blackcurrants and fresh blueberries, some leafy green tones, a little bit of cherry marmalade, light sweet oak notes of vanilla and cloves and a hint of raspberry juice. The wine is juicy, moderately ripe and slightly warm on the palate with a rather full body and slightly sweet-toned flavors of succulent blackcurrants, licorice, some fresh blueberry, a little bit of slightly astringent chokeberry, light woody notes of oak, a sweet hint of vanilla and a herbaceous touch of leafy character. The overall feel is quite balanced, thanks mainly to the moderately high acidity; the tannins feel quite ample, but they are ripe, soft and silky in nature, contributing mainly to the texture, not to the structure. The finish is long, dry and rather bitter with flavors of rather pronounced toasty oak, some bittersweet notes of dark chocolate, a little bit of ripe blackcurrant and bilberry, light bitter notes of chokeberries, a hint of vanilla and a touch of savory wood spice.
  
  A pleasant but also rather polished and anonymous Cab which shows some nice, fresh cool-climate character, but all the finer nuances and most sense of freshness get unfortunately overwhelmed by the rather liberal use of oak. This isn't a big, concentrated super-Cab, but it feels as though the rather heavy-handed oak influence tries to tell otherwise. I hope the rather pronounced oak tones would integrate better with the fruit as the wine ages, but as the wine doesn't feel like it is built for the really long haul, I have my reservations whether this wine will ever become something particularly interesting.

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  4/6/2021 - Dover drunk wrote: 90 Points

  It was nice. Smooth I missed the earthy smell I am used to from BO to be fair we had to drink outside and it was about 7c so the wine was cooler than it should have

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  2/22/2021 - @sebastienwine wrote: 89 Points

  Nice wine with good balance. Could be a 90 point wine if the price tag were lower, as the quality is good.
  Concentrated black fruits with integrated tannins while maintaining freshness. Drinking well now but could cellar 2-3 yrs easy.

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  11/17/2019 - scorbett Likes this wine:

  Blackberry, cocoa, black cherry, sage, slight woodsiness.
  
  Starting to hit its drinking window.

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