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2008 Pride Mountain Vineyards Reserve Claret
5/18/2024 - davidandrose Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pop and pour of this surprise signed gift bottle during todays winery visit, for our prolonged patronage.
Right out of the bottle this was a bit flat, but its notably improving with air. Mature Red, cherry and rhubarb and aged barrel dominate the nose. Cherries are a bit tart as they cross the palate, but this too is diminished after another 20 mins of air; smoked meat continues throughout and This is fruit dominant with soft tannic structure remaining.
Sadly the 6 of us is too many to follow over an extended period; While we initially thought this was past its prime, its in the back nine of its life but very enjoyable if given 30-60 mins of air before drinking on its own or with softer proteins.
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2019 Stags' Leap Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville
5/17/2024 - davidandrose Likes this wine: 88 Points
Pop and core from a 375. Soft red cherry and faint leather on the nose. While this crosses the palate with quite a bit of tannin, the approach is quite soft and lacks depth overall. This well well with tonite's roast chicken, but I'm not certain I'd take this for a cab
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2015 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon
5/12/2024 - davidandrose Likes this wine: 94 Points
Pull the cork and Mrs DavidandRose guessed thisnas a QC just based on the classis QC blue and blackberries notes on the nose. Didn't decant based in my prior tasting.
After 2.5 hours slow ox there's still faint dark fruit on the nose along with black tea and sweet tobacco. As indicated my prior notes this is relatively light and soft for a Cabernet; it paired very well with tonight's grilled swordfish, better than I would expect it to hold up against a piece of beef. For those with Sommelier stems, the wine showed a light year's worth of improvements when followed from these versus standard Riedel cab stems, which gave it a rougher and a rougher, more bitter mouthfeel, at least during the initial hour.
Ill note the far side of the drinking window @ 2028 from Somm stems - Possibly much longer, but honestly, very uncertain of the ideal drinking window from standard cab stems.
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