2004 Krupp Brothers Estates Cabernet Franc Veraison Stagecoach Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  12/15/2020 - misco Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Still drinking well
  Beautiful nose
  Lovely fruit
  well integrated tannins and a medium finish.

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  12/3/2015 - TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 89 Points

  This was just a bit past prime. Very lovely, but for ME, how I like my Franc to be, it had lost a step. But now I'll tell you what I liked. Most of it! Amazing blue fruit, a bit of plum, and then some amazing flowery spice. You can tell this is mountain fruit (Pritchard Hill Napa) by the tannins. Lovely, grippy but velvety. I'd be happy to have this again, but I wish I'd have found this bottle 2 years ago.

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  10/27/2012 - Major Wino wrote: 93 Points

  Nicely aged with bricking and with pencil shavings and pronounced oak on the nose. On the palate...medium bodied, tasty strawberry/cherry/raspberry hybrid and vanilla.

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  8/18/2012 - mflesh wrote: 93 Points

  This wine is fantastic. Cork intact with about 2-3mm cork bleed. There wasn't even ONE HINT in the bottle. Wine was decanted for about 30 minutes. Poured a deep, dark red into the decanter. Poured to glass. Out of the nose wasn't nearly as much floral goodness as expected. The wine gave a lot of dark berries and some spice. A little bit of an aged nose. It was beginning to smell like the Beringer III Cab Franc from 96. On the palate, however, was a very different, non-traditional cab franc, but oh man this one was deep and dark. Chocolate, blackberry, some fig all on the front, with a spice that emerged rather early and stayed late. Vanilla and blueberry finish, with some alcoholic heat. The floral started to show in the nose after 90 minutes of opening, but didn't really change the characteristics on the palate. Blackberry really intensified and the mountain fruit characteristics showed and dominated. At first the wine was devoid of any oak but this started to settle in a bit as the wine opened and heated up to room temp. The earthy character never showed and the floral and funk never really showed either. Black pepper spice surely did intensify as the wine warmed and opened. Definitely a smooth, refined Cabernet Franc, more of a Cab Sauv lover's Franc. It was still ridiculously good though, but it's not a traditional Cab Franc. Still just about one of the best I've had. This wine comes from S Pritchard Hill, so one can expect this to be full bodied, dense, loaded with fruit as expected from anything on Atlas Peak. I'd LOVE to have another case of this. Ready to drink now with minimal decanting, or hold for another 3-5 years.

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  10/11/2011 - JerryS wrote: 90 Points

  Reasonble nose; nicely balanced. Good drinking.

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