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2018 TOR Cabernet Sauvignon Vine Hill RanchOakville more |
11/14/2021 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 pointsMy personal fav of the last evening......6 hour decant, dark magenta in the glass, black currant and black potting soil on the nose. Soft, smooth quality fruit with good integration of the soft tannins and balanced acidity. So good I ran out and bought another bottle before the store closed this evening.....J bought the other two. |
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2018 Vice Versa Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras VineyardSt. Helena more |
10/5/2021 - #1Winelover Likes this wine: 98 pointsNeeded a great bottle to celebrate and this was calling my name! I re-read my review from May, and I had a similar experience except for a few notes. This is a full-bodied balanced wine with signature notes from St. Helena and Las Piedras. One of my 5 favorite vineyards in Napa (the others being Dr. Crane, Trespass, Henry Brothers Ranch, and Frediani), it is very strong on the front-end, mid-palate and finish.
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2018 Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon La Bam Beckstoffer Las Piedras VineyardNapa Valley more |
5/1/2021 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 95 pointsOpened one hour and quadruple decanted. Really, really fruity on opening, almost jammy. Fruit is dark black, def LPV. There is some depth but overall weight in the mouth is not as thick or glycerin-y as the '16s. Nice to know the '18s are opening a bit. I personally preferred the red fruit of the OG last week. This seems to exhibit more black tar heavy toast the longer it's open. To me that's a negative which holds it back from going higher than 95 right now.....
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2018 Harlan EstateOakville Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/2/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 100 pointsWith its showy nose, the wine is already displaying black cherries, blackberry, plums, flowers, baking spice, licorice, chocolate, caramel and bay leaf. Full-bodied, lush, deep, concentrated and pure, the wine seamlessly coats your palate. Even though this is incredibly weighty, it is also remarkably light on its feel. The multi-layered finish builds and expands for over 60 seconds. This is a contender for the finest vintage of Harlan Estate ever produced. Winemaker Cory Empting calls it a perfect vintage! Considering all the incredible wines that have been made here, that is really saying something.
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2012 Hall Cabernet Sauvignon Kathryn Hall Napa Valleymore |
2/22/2021 - wine4lux Likes this wine: 95 pointsOpened a bottle with a dear friend I hadn’t seen in several months. The wine matched the company- excellent. In general, I have enjoyed nearly all of the 2012 Napa cabs that I have had. Very approachable, soft, subtle fruit and tannins. The Kathryn Hall is no exception. Smooth and well-balanced. Other vintages may have longer finishes and more complexity, but for broad appeal, a well-crafted 2012 like this is hard to top.
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2018 Fait-Main Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las PiedrasSt. Helena more |
11/26/2020 - #1Winelover Likes this wine: 97 pointsWhatever you do, do not open this monster until 2021. On day 1 with a 3 hour decant, the wine was very tight and a little bitter. Back in the bottle it went and decanted for 3 hours on day 2. Day 2: The wine was still tight and slightly bitter but with time in the glass, this backward beast eventually strutted its stuff. The fruit that was lurking in the background began to emerge and the signature notes from Las Piedras came to the surface. My last glass was outstanding.
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2017 Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon The O.G. Beckstoffer To Kalon VineyardOakville more |
2/8/2021 - Yack Man Likes this wine: 96 pointsThe 2017 vintage has gotten the bum wrap in my opinion. Many of these high end Napa Cab’s range from very good to down right fantastic, and as usual, Carter Becksoffer’s Cab’s fit the bill, the OG is s fantastic wine. Although it’s a little bit in remission at this stage, it’s still a beautiful wine. The color is a dark, deep purple, a visual invitation with nice viscosity, good legs and meniscus. Taste wise, it’s nicely extracted with elegant dark fruit, black cherry, black and blueberry fruit, cream de cassis, anise, cocoa powder. A nicely focused wine that’s exhibits balance, aromas and flavors. 95-97 Points this time around. Give it time, it’s on a journey to a better place without a doubt. I like it. Unlike Carter OG’s prior to this vintage, this one benefits from a long decanting.
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2013 Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon EstateSt. Helena more |
1/19/2021 - MarshallLi Likes this wine: 97 pointsDeep purple,pronounced rose,strawberry,red cherry,green bell pepper,tomato leaf,ripe fruit,vanilla,cloves,wet leaves,forest floor,dry,medium(+) acidity,smooth medium(+) tannin,medium alcohol,medium(+) body,long finish,outstanding wine,suitable for bottle ageing.
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2016 Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Three Kings Beckstoffer To Kalon VineyardOakville more |
1/4/2021 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 97 pointsMight very well be the most put together wine of the evening for me, personally. Plenty of power here...decanted for an hour while we drank and ate our early apps/salads......lots of great cab bits, all integrated and all very smooth. I can't imagine this drinking any better than it does right now, all things considered. Much like the '16 Weitz of the other night, this has really smoothed out in the last year or so and really come together rather seamlessly.....it disappeared quickly at tableside with Jaime and Melissa and of course, Caol Ann.........
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2013 Hunnicutt Cabernet Sauvignon Brinkman BlockRutherford more |
12/11/2020 - cablover123 Likes this wine: 94 pointsHunnicutt Brinkman is from the popular G3 grapes, they just do not pay to use the G3 designation name. It always amazes me what different wine makers do with grapes in the same year with grapes from the same vineyard. Most G3 grapes I enjoy 3-5 years after production. This wine is 7 years in. It is my third time enjoying and by far my favorite drinking of the 2013 Hunnicutt Brinkman. I would have put the previous bottles in the 91-92 range.
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2015 Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon The O.G. Beckstoffer To Kalon VineyardOakville more |
6/21/2018 - La Flama Blanca Likes this wine: 97 pointsWow! This is a powerful and structured To Kalon built for aging. Tightly wound and intense, this is gonna be one heck of a journey and experience watching this shed its grape skin over the years. Showing like a young Pauillac with it’s cassis, crushed violets and graphite aromatics. There is an incredible purity of fruit and nuanced flavors of sweet tobacco, earth and spice box on the palate. No doubt this O.G. will continue to gain complexity for decades. 97+
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2016 Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon The O.G. Beckstoffer To Kalon VineyardOakville more |
12/15/2020 - 1964vintage wrote: 97 pointsLike an angel singing from heaven. All wines should drink like this one.
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2018 Realm Cellars The BardNapa Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/10/2020 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 95 pointsBottle shock territory on my shipped bottles, so bought one locally to try. From the pnp, this wine is readily accessible and during the first hour it's silky cab fruit and beautiful mouth glide is quite nice. High quality winemaking apparent. The acidity is riveting. As 2 hours pass some mouth puckering tannins arrive....in spades and the red/blue fruit gets a little blacker. 3 hours in and a dark iron pan component emerges on the back end. This is at its best in the first hour or so for you Cali fruit bomb people. A 92-93 at the end of the evening. It will be a very good wine once it all integrates and the tannin structure calms. Easy 2-3 point upgrade from here in a few years, IMO.
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2017 Aubert Chardonnay Eastside VineyardRussian River Valley more |
12/9/2020 - markcic Likes this wine: 95 pointsA brilliant Chardonnay. White flowers with hints of pear on the nose. The palate was Pear, crushed rocks, and a tinge of pineapple with just the right amount of oak to keep it all in balance. The finish is beautiful.
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2013 TOR Cabernet Sauvignon Tierra RojaOakville more |
11/5/2020 - cablover123 Likes this wine: 94 pointsPNP. It took a solid hour to settle down. Similar to my notes in April, dark fruit, allspice and the cedar was a bit more prominent. Does not need a long decant at this stage. I really like what TOR and Jeff Ames do with their grapes.
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2018 Scarlett Wines Cabernet SauvignonRutherford more |
11/30/2020 - Badmonkey wrote: 93 pointsThinking about buying more but wanted to see where this vintage is at first. Dark red and black fruit - dark cherry, red & black currants, and blackberry. Really smooth with a nice purity and solid depth/concentration. Nice rich flavors of dark berries, some spice, and a graphite component. Decent finish but not overly long nor deep - it could use some more time to open-up on the back-end which isn’t a surprise in light of its youth. Decanted for one hour and drank over a couple more. Improved a little with time but drinking pretty well after the decant. Quite enjoyable at this stage but like the 2018 Becklyn Napa cab I believe another 3 to 6 months will be beneficial to let it soften and open-up some more. However, according to the Winery, allow two to three years for the tannins and fruit to come together. Nonetheless, a nice vintage of this wine - 92/93 for me at this stage. No surprise of Dunnuck’s 93 rating. 98% cab and 2% petit verdot.
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2018 Becklyn Cellars Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
11/30/2020 - ffzhang Likes this wine: 95 pointsWow. The Becklyn NV cab never seems to disappoint. It is my favorite Mike Smith NV wine and this vintage is shaping to be a hell of a wine. As others mentioned, the purity of fruit is so enticing and luxurious - I get floral and lots of blue/black fruit - including delicious baked/stewed fruit into a scrumptious berry pie! Even though it’s big, the profile is refined and relatively elegant per se, with balanced alcohol and tannin and a nice, smooth finish. I can’t wait to see how this wine changes over the next 10 years. I went in 1/2 a case on this and I really wish I could have gotten more! It’ll be a case purchase next year!
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2018 Becklyn Cellars Cabernet SauvignonNapa Valley more |
11/29/2020 - Badmonkey wrote: 94 pointsImprovement from a couple weeks ago - it has softened/opened-up some more. Dark ruby fruit - currants, blackberry, dark cherry, and blueberry. Really smooth with a nice purity and solid depth/concentration - medium plus body. Really nice vibrant/rich flavors of dark berries, spice/licorice, and a graphite component. Fairly long finish. Popped/poured but drank out of a decanter for a couple hours. Improved with time and took around one hour to open-up. I still believe another 3 to 6 months will be beneficial to let it soften/open-up further but I really enjoyed this bottle at this youthful stage. Once again, another great vintage of this wine. 100% cab.
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2018 Scarlett Wines Cabernet SauvignonRutherford more |
8/24/2019 - csimm wrote: 97 pointsMike Smith 2018s & 2017s - Myriad, Quivet, Scarlett, Becklyn, and others (Saint Helena): Super expressive! This version of Scarlett may be the best rendition of the standard McGah offering yet. Much like the 2015 in its infancy, this 2018 delivers a gushing attack of an array of fruit flavors. The 2018 raises the bar up a notch or two with a darker black/purple profile (the standard Scarlett I usually more associate with red/black fruit). An intense and flavorful mid-palate, with the blackberry and huckleberry notes reverberating on through the back end. Finishes as it starts, with an out-pouring of flavor rushing to the tail.
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2016 Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon La Verdad Beckstoffer Las Piedras VineyardNapa Valley more |
11/19/2020 - greg@newsomehh.com Likes this wine: 96 pointsCrazy good, drank right out of bottle, delicious
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2018 Fait-Main Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Missouri HopperOakville more |
10/18/2020 - #1Winelover Likes this wine: 96 pointsStill a baby and in need or more time and/or a longer decant but this is really good. It's really good as in the best Missouri Hopper that I have ever had. This is Benoit Touquette's 1st release of Beckstoffer's Oakville vineyard and of course, it is amazing.
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2016 Rudius Cabernet Sauvignon Kaley Elizabeth Oakvillemore |
9/1/2020 - cablover123 Likes this wine: 94 pointsJeff Ames is co-owner of the vineyard. Jeff also has his hand in TOR Kenward's label which I really like. He definitely delivers here without quite the same tariff as TOR. (Which I still pay lol) Nose of dark berries and forest floor. The palate is of dark cherries, blackberries and a touch of mocha. Soft mouthfeel with a long finish. I am certainly glad that I further researched Jeff's wine and have already ordered more of the 2016's.
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Comment posted by cablover123:
11/15/2021 3:27:00 PM - Nice note Mark. I am sitting on a few and am looking towards some more age on them. Based on your experience, 3-5 more years? I also noted Tor's price increases for the 2019's. It seems to have coincided with Phil Mickelson drinking Black Magic from the Wannamaker cup. Coincidently my Black Magic allocation was lowered this year due to demand.