2018 Nickel & Nickel Cabernet Sauvignon State Ranch

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 92.2 points

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  12/2/2023 - JSKing wrote:

  Bomb!

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  7/6/2023 - cab_fran Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Our warmup bottle just before the trip to Napa. This ‘18 State Ranch showed better than the ‘17 recently consumed. Ok quality at the price point - Oakville fruit was there and pleasant. Bottle might have benefited from 90 mins decant.

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  6/30/2023 - Robwild wrote: 92 Points

  Deep Ruby color. Well balanced and good structure. Firm tannins. Dark fruits, oak, vanilla, and leather.

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  5/4/2023 - KAT9 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A lot more fruit forward compare to the 2018 Sullinger. Alc is better masked. Can still feel it as you drink it but not too crazy. Blueberry compote is right. Enjoyable and technically better but without major flaw, still not performing at the top level.

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  6/18/2022 - 87tellub Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I've never had a Nickel & Nickel before. This was a good bottle of wine. Better on night 2. Very primary. But drinks nice, not a fruit or alcohol bomb.
  
  Medium to dark purple. Nose has perfumed floral aromatics, brown sugar and blueberry compote, fresh cut sawdust, some sweet dark berries, trace of heat in the back of the nostrils. Almost full bodied, powerful core of inky and ripe dark berry fruit.
  
  More knit together after 2 hours of air; more tobacco and earth in nose; settles down into something beyond the wild teenager it showed on the PnP. Nice bottle of big and robust, but not anywhere near over the top, CA Cab.

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