2016 Crocker & Starr Cabernet Franc

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  3/23/2024 - Franken Berry Likes this wine: 94 Points

  DINNER WITH PAM STARR: get together with fellow CTers, CYCLIST and IAMANDYC and assorted friends and family. I don’t reca whether Pam or CYCLIST brought this, but many thanks. More blue fruited than the 21, mixed with dark cherries, violets, wild flowers and a bit of loam. Bright, energetic, and layered

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  12/24/2023 - Mortgage92 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Please wait until the next bottle for any notes. I did not write any when I open this so voted with the community for a score. I do know that it will be at least 2 years before I try another, because I do remember thinking, this is too young!

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  11/24/2023 - davidandrose Likes this wine: 91 Points

  2+ hr slow ox. Dark purple with a slow viscous coating on the stem. Black cherry on the nose, this comes across the palate as watery black and blueberry pie filling, with a hint of oak and structure.
  
  Extremely easy to drink on its own, this could easily pair with poultry, fish or burgers, though I'm not sure I'd put it up to a prime steak. Interesting and very enjoyable expression of the varietal, time to drink up.
  
  As this didn't add much weight during the several hours followed, i wouldn't suggest decanting.

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  3/4/2021 - davidandrose Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Decanted 1/2 the bottle; Comments are after an hour in the decanter. Nose of forest and muted dark fruits. Elegant mouth feel with a soft approach that yields soft, fine-grained tannins front- to- mid palate.
  
  Another hour later, wine from the bottle shows a floral bouquet with a more polished finish. This is a solid wine and an excellent Cab Franc, however like recent C-S wines I just can’t justify the price point.
  
  At $55-65 I’d be all over this, and still a player at 70; $90 I paid at the winery was just to offset tasting fees, and reinforces purchasing on the secondary market. I always want to support family businesses and preserve their margins which are halved retail, but not at a large premium to the distribution chain.

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  3/26/2020 - rgawlowski wrote: 90 Points

  Cabernet Franc ... kinda it nice. Sweet, cotton candy nose, nice finish, pleasant.

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