2006 Hourglass Cabernet Sauvignon Blueline

Community Tasting Notes (33) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  5/8/2021 - pmarlo Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This has been solid 94 point wine for me from the get go. Reading my notes of previously consumed bottles, took a day to emerge in 2013, less in 2020, and just requires about an hour tops now. The good amount of sediment has been a constant, so should either be filtered or sent upright to allow to settle. The fruit has faded but the wine had developed into something quite nice. Gives a good mouthful of forest and thick extract and some other hard to define components.

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  10/11/2020 - AaronMaxwell Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Rutherford dust, whisper of black olives, and delightful dark berries. Thanks to sfwinelover1 for sharing a bottle with me! You’re right, it’s great cocktail wine.
  
  Drank like a younger bottle. Definitely 93-94 — nothing detracting in this wine, but nothing pushing it into the next tier either.
  
  Would happily drink again :)

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  10/9/2020 - sfwinelover1 wrote:

  Generally consistent with prior tasting, with more notes of Rutherford dust and olives to go with the almost port-like nose and ripe berries on the palate. Reiterate that this wine works best as a standalone rather than with food because of low acidity. Ripe and delicious, but drink now. 93-94 if scoring.

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  4/4/2020 - pmarlo wrote: 94 Points

  Well matured, tannins integrated, fruit present, all in balance, bottle threw sediment, cork intact but brittle and soft, has matured nicely, what I hoped it would, ready now, did not require the long decant as when tasted on 2013, CT consumption almost 50%, would not go more than another 5 years with this wine, as it's ready now.

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  3/10/2020 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  First of 2 from a recent auction ($84@). Pretty much of a PnP. Lovely, powerful, slightly port-y nose of dark fruit, licorice, wet earth and some dark florals. On the palate, consistent notes with black cherries, blueberries, currants, cassis, raisins and plums, coffee, dark chocolate, spicebox, tobacco and a touch of oak. Raisins give the wine an almost amarone quality. Dark purple with just a hint of brown, full-bodied, thick legs. Soft, silky tannins, totally integrated acidity, just the slightest touch of heat on the back end. Consistent tasting notes for my second glass and on night 2. Intense, persistent and complex in its tasting notes, this wine is delicious but not particularly structured and the lack of acidity or discernable tannins don't make it especially food-friendly (it's interaction to the pizza and pasta I served it with was like a dog and a cat who agreed to inhabit separate floors of a house). While it's a pleasure to drink, it's not something I'd consume regularly and would be most likely to enjoy without accompaniment; for these reasons, I'm a bit below consensus and definitely under what I've scored a few cabs in the past few months and what the WS scored it. Decent qpr at what I paid for it. Will look to drink the other bottle this year. 92-93

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