2016 One And Done Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91.4 points

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  10/26/2022 - Hi.its.Don.4.Wine Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Just over a year ago I reviewed this wine in detail. 16 months later, I am still pleased to report that the wine continues to shine. Maybe a touch more blueberry notes have evolved, but overall, the wine still shows vibrant fruit, nice acidity, and soft tannins, leading to a fantastic wine. I would also say there are many more years ahead for the wine, as shown by its vibrancy. Enjoy at your leisure. Cheers

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  7/23/2022 - bobthebuilder Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Getting a little better each bottle. What a steal for $10

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  7/25/2021 - KiBoo Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Enjoyable. Smooth medium bodied with notes of plum, cherry and earth.
  
  Presented as a $40 bottle being sold for $10. Still a good value but tastes like a $20 bottle to me.
  
  Nice wine.

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  6/22/2021 - Hi.its.Don.4.Wine Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Elementary, My Dear Watson
  
  While this well-used phrase is attributed to Sherlock Holmes, it was never actually used in any of Arthur Conan Doyle’s books about the famous detective. More than likely an amalgamation for effect; myself hearing the phrase many times during the reruns of Sherlock Holmes’ adventures on TV starring Basil Rathbone.
  
  It doth applies aptly when I was offered a wine, cloaked in secrecy. You see the email offer was for a Cabernet, whose single-vineyard designation and its location in the region of Paso Robles was not to be revealed. The winemaker of the wine (to be the center of this story and unnamed in the email) was commissioned to make this premier Cab sourced from this vineyard's fruit from an outside source. When ready, the buyer was nowhere to be found, leaving the winemaker with the wine, expected to sell at $40 a bottle. Decisions were made to release said wine and it happily came to be here in Illinois and at a quarter of the suggested price. For the mathematically challenged, that’s $10.
  
  Determining the source of the grapes is usually a very well-kept secret in the industry. Other labels have used the same technique with stunning results, so my ability to locate and identify said vineyard was probably not going to happen. BUT, identifying the winemaker was a different story. You see the email contained bits and pieces of pertinent info on this person. First, being a woman, and second, her winery is located in Paso Robles as well. The most explosive piece was the fact that this person in her career had some, let’s just say, unusual history. It was enough; it left a trail of crumpets only a super sleuth could follow, that being me! Leaving no stone unturned and with my keen sense of logical thinking, I was on the trail to discover this mystery woman.
  
  Then, out of the many pages of Google, I see the answer to the clue I’m seeking; the same reference made in the email concerning the winemaker now revealed before me with certainty that I have found the right person. I’m only waiting for Dr. Watson to exclaim “You’ve done it!” To which the ONLY response can be “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
  
  With the mystery solved, I felt I had made a GREAT purchase, especially knowing the reputation of this winemaker. My only regret is that by the time I had solved this mystery and drunk the wine, it was too late to avail myself of more bottles as they had sold out.
  
  As for the wine; rich notes of dark berry begin our journey, followed by lush black/blue fruit wrapped in an almost creamy texture alongside bright acidity. The tannins are full but with the velvety texture, they meld wonderfully into this wine of elegance; leading on to deduce that the wine saw a fair amount of oak. One other clue to the wine is that it was bottled unfined and unfiltered by virtue of the sediment in my glass. A pure delight from the Paso Robles area in California, yet having the structure and power of Napa Valley.
  
  You may have noticed that I have not divulged the name of the wine or the winemaker; there would be no reason to do so as the wine was a one-off (coincidentally a derivative for the name it received) and since the winemaker’s identity was kept secret in the email, I too shall keep this information to myself, content I have solved the mystery and now having the opportunity to relax, smoke my pipe (not really), and don my deerstalker hat, making my transformation to super sleuth complete.
  
  Cheers
  
  (P.S. - For those on CellarTracker, you're the only ones who know what wine I spoke of; although the winemaker remains a mystery)

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