1998 Godspeed Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 83.4 points

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  6/30/2014 - rmcnees Does not like this wine: 78 Points

  Clearly past its drinking window at this stage and borderline drinkable at all. Rust bricking at the rim and a barnyard funkiness settling in on the nose and the overtaking the remaining fruit tones. Tasting with some hearty cheese but likely will pour and open something else. Still consumable but life is too short for wine such as this when I know better. Perhaps some remnant as a cooking wine but caveat emptor. Drinking from a 375 bottle. Perhaps the 750 and larger are not so far gone.

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  3/22/2014 - wconnolly wrote:

  Sadly this was gone

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  3/22/2014 - wconnolly wrote:

  Sadly both of these were gone

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  11/10/2013 - wconnolly wrote: 84 Points

  Running about a 50% hit rate with these half bottles. Opened 4, two were "cooked" and 2 were pretty pleasant. When good, this is medium garnet in color, heavy on raspberry, blackberry and some cherry. The nose tends to be a bit musty even on the good bottles. Took a risk on this due to low price during our visit to the winery in 2011.

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  1/12/2013 - rmcnees wrote: 84 Points

  Consistent tasting notes with earlier tasting although my recollection is that tonight this wine showed a little more fruit than previous tasting. Never-the-less, it is showing its age and diminishing as the fruit is giving way to other elements.
  
  The initial black cherry and black berry fruits have given way to a frontal layer of anise with cedar and leather giving way to a hint of raisiny fig and touch of dark chocolate with firm lingering musty tannins. While perhaps best suited for pizza or heady cheeses. it was a great complement tonight to a grilled tenderloin steak with spicy pepper spinach and grilled mushrooms.. Drank from a 375 bottle picked up at the winery last spring.
  
  http://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2013/01/godspeed-napa-valley-mt-veeder-cabernet.html

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