2003 Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Franc

Community Tasting Notes (129) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  3/25/2024 - kabert Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Drinking in its prime! Delicious fruit, and very little indication on the palate that this is a 20+ year old cab franc. Lots of sediment though.

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  10/31/2023 - kabert Likes this wine: 92 Points

  After pulling the cork (which broke in half), this poured dark - nearly black. But taste-wise, it started out tart and tight and not giving much. I was concerned, as the last bottle I drank (in 2021) of the 2003 Pride CF was dynamite. However, over the next 30-90 minutes, the bottle gradually started giving more fruit, until it was free-flowing with delicious fruit by the time half the bottle was consumed. Today, the remaining half was even a tad better — just as good as the bottle a couple years ago.

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  4/9/2023 - BCarv Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Black fruits. Spicy, almost peppery finish.

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  5/14/2021 - kabert Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Fantastic! Full bodied and just overflowing with delicious cab franc fruit. Truly hard to believe this is a 2003, as this is bursting with fruit and not heavy at all. (I referred recently to a drunk-too-early 2017 Pride Cab as an appetizer in itself - this isn’t like that.) Opened about 30 minutes before tasting, and not decanted. Given the timeless, delicious experience with this bottle, and that it shows no leather-type aged flavors, I’d expect similarly well kept bottles to give pleasurable drinking for another 10 years.

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  6/7/2019 - Snoman Likes this wine:

  Sadly, this bottle is past its prime by a few years.....flavors have lost freshness, more of a rustic granular mouthfeel, deep black/purple color with light bricking at the halo and little fruit or freshness remaining. Still enjoyable, just kept it a bit too long on the rack.

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