Winery - Oakville East
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A ripe, elaborate Cabernet, offering a blast of fruit in the flashiest way. Wows with tiers of blackberries, black cherries, cassis, cocoa, cool mint, spice and smoked meat that are almost sweet, but the finish is dry. The powerful oak overlay is perfectly in keeping with the wine’s volume. Some sharpness throughout is a minor fault.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A flashy, showy wine, whose flamboyant flavors are tempered by beautiful Oakville tannins. It’s made in the modern, ripe style, with explosive blackberry, cassis, bacon and sandalwood flavors. The oak is sweet and smoky and refined. Just beautiful, and should hold over the next six years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
After the wonderful 2005 vintage, this is a bit of a letdown, which undoubtedly is a reflection of the vintage. It’s very rich and the tannins are superb, but there’s a jammy sweetness to the blackberries and cherries. It’s a delicious wine, but could be drier and have a more complex structure. Now through 2012.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
They call it east, because the grapes are from the Vaca Mountains, and the vineyard faces west. It’s a splendid wine, classically proportioned, with rich, thick tannins that have true Napa refinement. The flavors are also classic, suggesting cassis and cedar, with a distinct smack of indescribable minerals. There’s a lot of smoky new oak, but it’s proportionate to the wine’s power. This serious new Napa Cab is great now, and should develop for many years.
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July 20, 2009
A beautiful auburn colored cabernet, the bouquet is rather subdued, ripened cherries. The palate is light but the finish is long and beautiful, bringing back the cherry from the nose, incorporated this time with fig and cinnamon.
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