Previous notes apply. A fairly hedonistic experience this time around, with sweet blackberry, blueberry, dark chocolate, red raspberry, spice, mulch, and some blue/black rock. Rich, dense, and a…
Previous notes apply. Sweet blackberry liqueur, blueberry smoothie, dark chocolate chunk, vanilla bean, bread dough, mocha, clove, and anise. Still exhibiting a bit of a clumsy profile, with a fat,…
Traditional SB notes of yellow citrus and white stone core fruit, yellow pear, lemon juice, honeydew melon, mango, pumice, sulfur, and wet pavement. A medium attack with an equally medium-weighted…
Available only in Magnum, the Social Currency is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. A complete standout compared to the TEN and Napa Valley offerings served alongside it, this wine exhibited more complete and…
Boozy and sweet, with a ripe, cloying plum note overpowering most of the other flavors trying to come through. Some black cherry, currant, and cedar notes eventually emerged, but the attack of the…
Purple and red berry core fruit. The 13% Cab Franc provided a nice lift to the otherwise basic delivery of flavors. Some black and red currant, red licorice, allspice, and subtle minerality rounded…
Black and purple core fruit. Dark plum, black currant, black cherry, earth, black rock, and cedar. A little more of a display of darker bass tones on the mid-palate when compared to the TEN, with a…
Interestingly enough, this experience with this wine was strikingly similar to the one I had with it nearly two years ago. Previous note from 2016 still applies. Alcohol, cedar, and a off-sweet plum…
Disappointingly mulchy and cedar-driven, with black currant, forest floor, tobacco, wood-paneling, and a bitter leather note on the back end. This felt like something more from the mid-90's than a…
Soft and approachable, with soft curves and an easygoing delivery of light and traditional SB flavors. Yellow citrus, quince, grass, and grey rock. A leisurely saunter of an attack, gliding across…
Captivating and concentrated black core fruit, a fistful of dark spices, and black minerality all pulsate across the palate in a beautifully powerful display of flavor and intensity. This Moonracer…
Previous notes apply, but I have to say this was a pretty impressive showing considering it is the NV version. Blackberry, black cherry, black raspberry, dark chocolate, dark cassis, espresso, clove,…
Previous notes apply. Beautiful and giving flavors of dark black cherry, black and dark red currant, dark spice (clove, anise), earth, wet black pavement, and wet cedar. Even more resolved and…
In theory, this was better than the 2013 version of this wine. The 2014 Eternity hit the palate with deep, dark black and red fruit. Blackberry, red raspberry, red licorice, plum, and SMOKE. The…
Even more confusing than the standard Estate Cabernet, this Eternity ping-ponged from muddled and grapey, to bitter and astringent (especially on the back end). Some red and black currant, alcohol,…
I'm not entirely sure why you would make a Reserve version of this wine in 2014, but ok. An ever-so-slight improvement from the original version in terms of depth, but otherwise this is the same wine…
Medium-bodied and agreeable notes of black and dark red core fruit; some earth, spice, and dark chocolate to add a mediocre amount of interest. Otherwise, another fairly basic and pedestrian version…
Ok, so I seriously have to call out any used car salesman who tells me there is anything even remotely redeemable here beyond a rancid, broken soul of a core in this wine. Huge, inflammatory blasts…
A would-be improvement from the 2013 version of this wine, except that the 2015 suffered from similar idiosyncrasies associated with an overt plummy aftertaste that muddled any real pleasurable…
Plum, red and black currant, and some cedar. The plum component of this wine randomly vacillated between overtly plummy and muddled (almost stewed), to bitter and flat. Not all that pleasant all the…
Perhaps a slight improvement from the 2016 version of this SB, the 2014 exhibited more of a prairie grass note that added some lift...."some" lift. The main issue here was that the core fruit didn't…
A somewhat more compelling SB than the III Rows SBs served before this Boeschen. Yellow citrus, honeydew, light grass, orange membrane, and gray pebbles. Simple, but with a decent amount of energy…
