Winery - Oakville Ranch
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Ripe, dry and immature, this 100% Cab comes from a vineyard in the Vaca Mountains east of the Silverado Trail. It’s quite tight and tannic now, but shows a rich heart of blue and black stone fruits and berries. Seems to have the balance to age, and should improve after 2008.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Showing that earthy, dried herb character that so often marks Napa Chardonnays, this Oakville-grown wine is soft in acids and rich in spicy, creamy oak and lees notes. It has pleasantly ripe apple, peach and pineapple flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Young and jammy now, this wine needs some time to come around. It’s made in the modern style, a fruit-driven red with cherry, red currant and chocolate flavors that melt in your mouth. Considerable new oak shows up as toast and caramel. Give it until mid-2009 or later.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Pretty tough and tannic now, with a bone-dry, mouth-numbingly austere feeling throughout, and doesn’t seem to have the fruity stuffing to develop. You’ll find traces of blackberries in the gritty finish.
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Oakville Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon-Cabernet Franc - 2000
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Shockingly overpriced. Tough, dry and tannic, with raisiny flavors. Why would anyone buy this wine?
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Soft, kind of flat and thin in flavor, with notes of apples, peaches and oak, and a dry finish.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
What a beautiful opening aroma. Cedar, cigar box, and pure smoky oak mingle with ripe cassis and black currants, and an earthy mix of green olives and grilled meat. Drinking ripely sweet in fruit, with beautiful tannins, this smooth Cab drinks well now and should hold through 2015.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Still quite firm in dry tannins, with bell pepper, herb and coffee flavors, although there’s a core of cherry fruit. Doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Rather sharp and tart in green apple bitterness, and pretty acidic through the finish, although the oak and cream make up for it. But that structure works in favor of food.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very fruit-driven, this dry Cab has jammy cherry, blackberry and currant flavors, with a rich edge of cedar and cocoa. It’s a bit immature now and should develop bottle complexities over the next 6–8 years.
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