2002 13th Street Cabernet-Merlot Funk Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 89 points

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  11/5/2013 - markleberry wrote: flawed

  When first opened the wine smelled wonderful but then lost most of its flavour almost immediately. Not sure if the bottle was bad or if it just didn't age well

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  4/1/2013 - Napacat Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Had this 3/30/13 in a blind tasting of other good international Cabernets (Dunn, Haut Bergey, Ridge Monte Bello), and while it wasn't among the best of the night, it was still a good wine. A full bodied wine, plenty of ripe red fruit and earthy flavors. No sense at all of vegetal greeness that one often sees in Bordeaux varieties from Ontario. Drink now - 2020.

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  2/13/2013 - owr Likes this wine: 90 Points

  (Re-Tasted February 2013) ... Now here's something that rarely happens, I'm doing a Taste it Again review of a wine that originally appeared in the Lost and Found - usually if I have a few bottles of something I have reviewed it before on the main site (ontariowinereview) - but for some odd reason this wine never made it there and first appeared 6 years after vintage date in another forum. Almost 5 years to the date (I'm shy by 6 days) I decided to open this wine one last time (it is after-all my last bottle) and see how this wine is doing. For you fans of 13th Street wine you will be pleasantly surprised, because it is awesome. The nose hints at dark berries with a touch of cedar along with some anise seed, cinnamon and currants. The palate is robust with tannins, but they don't over-power, the cedar is present so is black currant and an interesting finish reminiscent of black ball candy or Black Bart chewing gum (you know, licorice, but with something more interesting behind it) ... there are some great secondary and tertiary flavours coming through. You'll also find some fine sediment coating the glass. I would recommend a drink now approach to this wine cause after a decade I can't see this one getting much better than it is right now. And it is very good.

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