Reviews

Provenance Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford

Fruity, simple, and easily accessible. Predictable but enjoyable enough in the flavor department to hold half-interest throughout consumption, with notes of black and red currant, blackberry,…

Del Dotto Cabernet Sauvignon Connoissuer's Series Jupille Sylvain French Oak NO

PnP with notes of ripe black and red currant, subtle black raspberry, cedar, wet earth/mulch, and some black tanbark. Medium-bodied and a fairly smooth delivery for the 2013 vintage. A good wine and…

Trujillo Wines Cabernet Sauvignon

Same as last year's TN. It started out a little restrained, with a classical profile overall and some seemingly nice components of a frame to hold the red and black currant fruit in proper place.…

Myriad Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

Drinking even better than a number of months before. Previous notes apply. This was served alongside a 2014 Maybach Materium and 2014 Scarecrow M. Etain. The Myriad held it own really well,…

Maybach Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Materium

All of my previous notes apply. Still awesome, if you like your Cabernets on the riper side of things (which I typically do as long as the grip is fully intact - which it absolutely is in the case of…

Scarlett Wines Cabernet Sauvignon

Well, here I am back to awesome with the wine, experiencing some really nice black and red licorice and asphalt notes to cut through the massive core of red and black fruit. Previous notes apply, but…

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Three Kings Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

This was really showing its capacity to deliver an amazing array of complex flavors. Last time I had the Three Kings, I favored the Grand Daddy served alongside it. This time, the Three Kings came…

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon The Grand Daddy Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

Wine is fun... unpredictable, but fun...

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon La Verdad Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard

My previous notes apply. Once again, this wine absolutely killed it! The "oohs" and "aahs" across the table were instantaneous as soon as we all took our respective sips. It's no doubt this wine sold…

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon La Bam Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard

My third time having this wine; previous notes apply. This wine needs another few years to really stretch its legs. It is a youngster that flaunts its youth with somewhat compacted core fruit and a…

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Carter

Carter Carter...The wine so nice, they named it twice! My previous notes apply. Having an opportunity to have this wine side-by-side with the Fortuna, I found myself favoring the Fortuna just a hair…

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Weitz Vineyard

Previous notes apply. A very compelling wine that strikes a nice balance between fruit flavor/concentration and tension/verve. This is drinking even better than when I last had it in June. The grip…

Christopher Tynan Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Old Vines Meleagris Gallopavo

Notes of black currant, black earth, dark loam, and dark chocolate. In terms of flavor, the overall profile of this wine is undoubtedly in my wheelhouse, with a brooding, gothic type of quality about…

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Fortuna Vineyard

Same as my previous notes on this wine. Drinking even better than a few months ago. A beautiful profile of red, black, and some purple core fruit. Complex and tiered in its delivery, with a…

Tusk Estates Cabernet Sauvignon

As with the 2012 Schrader CCS, 2015 Carter OG, and 2015 Realm BTK, the Tusk was competing very well toward the final sips. Initial PnP was extremely tight and almost unforgiving. Super powerful and…

Realm Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

PnP and this was one of the most giving and accessible of the wines served at the table. As noted by Cristal2000 and #1Winelover, this was indeed a young wine, but ironically delivering a medley of…

Schrader Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon CCS Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

This Schrader started off much in the same way a 2013 Carter OG began its display of flavors on PnP the night before: overt red (and some black) fruit (bordering on "fruity") and little in its…

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon The O.G. Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

Previous notes apply, except that this was fairly tight and restrained throughout the course of consumption. It was not decanted (and definitely needed it), but over the course of a couple of hours…

Morlet Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Cour de Vallée

This wine was decanted for a number of hours and still struggled to exhibit much more than some tight, compacted red, black, and purple berry notes. Some faint earth and minerality, with…

Greer Cabernet Sauvignon Greer Vineyard

Rob Greer took the time to meet up with us at lunch and bring a bottle of this 2014 Greer. An amazingly giving gesture indeed and a wine with a lot of potential ahead of it.

Lithology Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

I had the opportunity to try this wine again. I honestly just don't get it. I have no idea what direction these guys were going in this expression of To Kalon. My previous note applies.…

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Coliseum Block

Soft and surprisingly earthy notes of black fruit, mulch, and a little funk. This seemed fairly advanced in its flavor profile. In all honestly, it's not exactly a fair fight when this is having to…

Carter Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon The O.G. Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

This was from a Coravin bottle that had been tapped multiple times over the course of three months. Thanks to Dan and Mark for trying to add this wine to our lineup and seeing if it would still…

Vice Versa Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Dr. Crane Vineyard

Just when I thought nothing would be able to compete with Vice Versa's 2016 LPV served just before this wine, along came the good Doctor who just had to try to push the reigning champ off to the…

Vice Versa Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Las Piedras Vineyard

Absolutely unreal! This stands to become one of the best LPVs I've ever had; this juice blew the socks off of just about any LPV I've experienced. Of course, as a barrel sample, and as a wine that…