1964 Inglenook Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90 points

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  9/19/2009 - Krugsters wrote: 90 Points

  Color:clear, ruby red with a touch of browning/bricking on the edge and a pale haloed rim. Nose of deep dark fruit, tobacco, red cedar, licorice and oak. This wine is drinking beautifully for a 45 year old bottle that had been perfectly stored. Tasting notes similar to nose as well as overripe plums. Tastes like an aged classed Bordeaux.
  Everything is in balance, the tannins have softened and the fruit is still there. A beautiful bottle, that last of a bygone era. A pleasure to have had. Served with Porterhouse steaks, lobster mushrooms, caramelized onions and mashed potato.
  Used a filter/screen to pour directly into the glass, but the bottle did not throw off a lot of sediment. The cork had no markings and the foil Ignlenook capsule was a bit loose.

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  3/17/2009 - Rupert wrote: 86 Points

  Inglenook Cabernet Sauvignon vertical 1954 to 1974 (Institute of Directors, London): Floor polish nose, plush (again), but dull

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  5/17/2008 - Harry Cantrell wrote: 92 Points

  garnet. Initially full of bottle stink. It took almost 45 minutes to blow off but when it did-oh, my! A beautiful aged Cal Cab-all the way. Fruit still present, but with the secondary characteristics in spades. Drunk at Bern's. This is supposedly the last year for J. Daniel as he sold it this year. I suspect he still had a hand in this. Amazing.

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  5/29/2007 - G SQUARED wrote: 89 Points

  Dinner at Bern's with Bruce and Maynard. Okay, so this bottle had some special sentiment as this was the last vintage that John Daniels made the wine for. This was good, not great. It had been stored perfectly and the color was beautiful, still dark with just a hint of brown at the edges. However, it just didn't have the fruit to rate a higher score. Still a nice drink though and impressive considering it's a 40 yr old plus CA Cab.

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  10/9/2006 - winefool wrote: 93 Points

  This bottle apparently came from leftovers from the big Audouze older California tasting in San Francisco. If all the bottles that evening were in as good a shape as this one, it must have been quite an evening! Full red color – very little bricking or garnet for the age. Nice aroma of red fruit and spiciness with a minty note. Lovely mature red fruit still remaining on the palate with lots of interesting secondary complexity. Not the most profound wine of the evening by any means, but a pleasure to drink.

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