Preliminary. By now...A nice surprise... This 10 years old bottle, well cellared , from Napa Valley, Howell Mountain, this Cab has red fruits aromas, medium red with purple sub tons. Wide spaced legs, going down quickly. At taste round with a long tannic, long dry finishing.
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Ruby colored with little leg. There is light sediment in the bottle. It thin aroma including blackberry, plum and medium toast leathery tobacco. It tastes like blackberry, black currant (cassis), raspberry, mineral and tobacco. The body is light/medium. The wine has thin linear texture. The wine finishes short.
The wine had harsh ending tannins on initial pour and juicy dark fruits on the nose and palate. A 90 minute decant diminished the tannins considerably but with the acidity increasing and the fruit forward initial taste giving way to weak flavors and low levels of complexity. Overall a bit disappointed - maybe past its prime?
After dinner we opened a 2015 bottle of Ladera Cabernet Napa Valley which was much more flavorful complex and smooth on the intial tasting and after an hour decant.
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3/15/2023 - libero wrote: 91 Points
Delicious
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4/11/2021 - libero wrote: 91 Points
Preliminary. By now...A nice surprise... This 10 years old bottle, well cellared , from Napa Valley, Howell Mountain, this Cab has red fruits aromas, medium red with purple sub tons. Wide spaced legs, going down quickly. At taste round with a long tannic, long dry finishing.
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12/31/2020 - drlang946 Likes this wine: 89 Points
Ruby colored with little leg. There is light sediment in the bottle. It thin aroma including blackberry, plum and medium toast leathery tobacco. It tastes like blackberry, black currant (cassis), raspberry, mineral and tobacco. The body is light/medium. The wine has thin linear texture. The wine finishes short.
The wine had harsh ending tannins on initial pour and juicy dark fruits on the nose and palate. A 90 minute decant diminished the tannins considerably but with the acidity increasing and the fruit forward initial taste giving way to weak flavors and low levels of complexity.
Overall a bit disappointed - maybe past its prime?
After dinner we opened a 2015 bottle of Ladera Cabernet Napa Valley which was much more flavorful complex and smooth on the intial tasting and after an hour decant.
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11/1/2020 - libero wrote: 90 Points
This 9 years old bottle has a dark red color ,very weak aromas,. Few legs. Ar taste is round and medium to long finishing
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12/11/2018 - libero wrote: 90 Points
Light purple claret type.
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