2005 Salvestrin Cabernet Sauvignon Salvestrin Estate Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (88) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  9/27/2021 - Mdb1982 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Winemaker Notes
  This wine opens with an abundance of bright fruit. Aromas of ripe juicy blackberries, plum and toasted barrels delight the nose. Entry on the palate is silky and smooth with great balance which frames round integrated tannins. The structure builds on the palate with mouth coating richness and warmth leading to a lush ripe long lasting finish.
  
  Wine Enthusiast
  A beautiful young Cab that continues Salvestrin's unbroken track record of the last several years. Dry and rich in tannins, it shows enormously concentrated fruit flavors of currants, blackberries, black cherries, mocha and spice. Gorgeous now, and should improve over the next decade.
  
  Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Vineyard is a winner from this vintage, which seems to be moving into the "great" category, a clear rival to the other top vintages of the 21st century’s first decade, 2001, 2002 and 2007. This wine offers a beautiful garnet/plum/purple color followed by notes of cedar wood, forest floor, Chinese black tea and black cherries. It is medium-bodied, elegant, seemingly close to maturity, but delicious, round and nicely textured.

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  9/16/2017 - drbob5 Likes this wine:

  dark fruit cedar tobacco nose
  taste: spicy cedar, Asian spices, dark fruit, pencil shavings (reminiscent of a syrah), mod length, spiciness dominates aftertaste

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  6/17/2017 - ciesel Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  Something unpleasant on the after taste. Was stored properly.

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  4/22/2016 - foobarski Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Has matured nicely. Agree with CWilliam that the heat at the finish has faded. Just a solid, well-structured Cali Cab. Once again, a great companion to a large hunk of red meat.

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  12/27/2015 - CWilliam wrote:

  Best bottle yet. Didn't take formal notes but consistent with note from 7/2013 excluding the comment on heat on the finish. Dark fruit dominant but nice fruit / acid / tannin balance. 92+ In prime drinking window and not showing any signs of oxidation.
  
  Would buy again.

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