Billy L.

10

Bravo!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Kudos Chris Maybach & Thomas Rivers Brown, absolutely fabulous!!!
Cheers 🍇🍷

Robert M. Parker Jr. 💯
“There are roughly 600 cases of the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Materium, all of which comes from the Weitz Vineyard on the eastern Vaca Mountain hillside of Oakville at an elevation of about 1,000 feet above the Silverado Trail. This is shallow soil interspersed with loads of pebbles and stones. This wine is incredible first-growth material – a magical Cabernet Sauvignon with an opaque purple color, an extraordinary nose of blackberry and cassis, white flowers, crushed rock and minerality followed by a full-bodied majestic mouthfeel with phenomenal balance, purity and overall equilibrium. Stunningly rich and impressive, this wine will hit its peak in 8-10 years and has the potential to last 40-50 years. For those who keep track of such things, the wine was completely aged in 100% new Darnajou and Taransaud barrels.” (RP) (10/2015)
— 7 years ago

edward Simpson

8.9

Asador St Emillion lovely soft tannins..... — 9 years ago

Kimberly Anderson

9.0

Heavy cherry, licorice and baking spice. Nice vaca bottle — 10 years ago

with Chad

Charlie Beatty

Buyer wineworksonline.com

9.4

Wow 2013 Alexander Valley store bought WineWorks Marlton for 23.98 is Fabulous ! In Strathmere on Vaca! This's is the Best of what Sebastiani has done is Incredible. Great mouth feel, soft tannin. Black fruit jump out of the glass! Another WOW 94+ this Restaurant under pressure is Awesome when busy! CB 94+ — 10 years ago

with Karen

Sal Pineda

9.5

Had it at vaca. Excellent! — 10 years ago

Brian Thompson

Sales & Marketing Krupp Brothers Winery, Stagecoach Vineyard

8.9

Great choice on a 90 degree day. Citrus, green apple and lots of minerality. — 11 years ago

Carlos Perez-Abreu

9.3

Goes great w vaca frita de pollo and Maza real!! — 11 years ago

with Eduardo and Ana

Mike Anderson

Owner/Winemaker for MTGA Wines

9.5

As soon as I write a blog post about why I'm not the biggest fan of Napa Cab I start finding a few I love. Coincidence? I think not. — 12 years ago

Pipo Bonamino

9.1

Not an easy smell to describe, smoky and delightful... A must try!
I got it at Graziano in Miami!!!
The taste... Delicious. Sweet and with a strong Body. Perfect to be close by the "asador" and wait for the best piece from the barbecue — 13 years ago

Marc S

9.2

Great dark triple in a 665cm3 bottle. Chocolate, smooth bitters with some caramel. Perfect after a strenuous drive on the RN 40 — 8 years ago

Edward Chiu

9.3

Ridiculous wine with John Vaca — 9 years ago

Paul T, Missing My Beautiful Wife 24/7

9.6

Good stuff, should of taken this on vaca, — 9 years ago

ecrum

9.9

Last-day-of-vaca wine 😎 — 10 years ago

with Krss119

Adam Wills

9.0

Definitely on vaca with the pre 5pm cheeky tequila soda. — 10 years ago

Jono Riehlman

9.3

Killer wine. Love the Portuguese wines Bodega produces. Smooth tannins with rich varietal expression. Dorothy (the owner/winemaer) has crafted this wine in true Portuguese style from Cali fruit. Big props. — 11 years ago

Pooneet K

9.2

Needs time to open, and probably a bit too young. But once open, excellent with a long finish, good acid, and a full mouthfeel. Had at Asador Alameda in Fuenmayor. — 11 years ago

Daniel Rodriguez

9.7

Big, bold, spicy, and tannic blend of Grenache, Tempranillo, and Mourvèdre. Bit of tobacco, ripe dark fruit, baking spices and cocoa. One of my favorite red blends! — 11 years ago

Rob Mondavi

Owner/President of Winemaking Folio Fine Wine Partners

9.6

From the Montsant producer ever. This family has heart and the land and the wine. Solid berry and earth structure is perfect. The earth there is kinda like the super hot Vaca range area of napa at the trail and Oakville cross. — 13 years ago

Fernando Garcia

9.6

Pujol con César, Vaca, Pioja, Sharis, La Maruch. — 13 years ago

Heather Dyarmett

9.6

Had this on vaca. Great bottle of wine! Target and Trader Joe's both carry — 14 years ago

Arden Barnett

9.2

Send off dinner for a close friend who is moving to Leeds, England tomorrow. We shared this wine at the greatest dinner of our lives at Asador Etxebarri outside of Bilbao, Spain, so I thought it would be a great addition to his send off dinner. Extremely complex wine. Heavy notes of Dried dates and porcini mushrooms with a finish full of fresh rosemary, cherries macerated in balsamic vinegar and fresh cracked pepper. — 8 years ago

Mimi Parisay

9.0

So good! Just as great as the day at the winery. #Santa Barbara vaca — 9 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.5

The Backus Vineyard is on a steep hillside in the low end of the Vaca mountains...across from Rudd Vineyards and Screaming Eagle. It's a blend of 96% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot & 1% Malbec. Tonight, it's showing elegant evolution. The tannins are about at the halfway point in their evolution. It has a slightly jammy character. The fruits are; ripe to dry blackberries, spiced plum, dark cherries, touch of blueberries, black raspberries & raspberries come on late, coffee grounds, spice-box, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, mocha chocolate, a nice woody barrel toast comes through mid palate, black licorice anise, dry stems, black tea, dry florals & fresh violets, dry hay, rich semi-sweet black earth, dry crush brown volcanic rocks and the acidity is perfect. The wine is in a good place tonight with a 3 hour decant. The structure, balance, length and finish are outstanding. The finish goes on and on. It's; ruby, lush, thick, round, elegant with just the right amount of spice and earth. The first bottle in a set of three. I would have the next bottle in 5-8 years. Guessing, the last bottle in another 3-7 years depending on the showing of the second bottle. Sweet dark cassis nectar. — 9 years ago

LY

9.3

At el asador — 10 years ago

Leslie Bartos

9.0

sulky and shutdown even with a decent decant. will wait a couple of years until it's back to its lively usual self. 2001 vintage on 5/15/16 at Vaca. — 10 years ago

with Tony

Tom Kobylarz

9.4

Shockingly easy to enjoy now, this is quite a different experience than I was expecting. Though somewhat divergent from its typically firmer structure, it was great because we had it with a meal and could enjoy it immediately. The color has a deep purple-red core, with vibrant ruby edges. The nose was youthful with a medium+ intensity , showing dark red and black fruits, mocha and coffee bean. The flavors came in waves on the palate, layering with elegance and consistency to a long, fruit, oak and subtle spice finish. Not what I expected, but very enjoyable and priced much better here in Spain. @ Asador Extebarri #valbuena #vegasicilia #riberadelduero — 11 years ago

Jeanine Littrel

9.6

Fav I could find since back from Italy vaca — 12 years ago

Gayla Underkoffler

9.6

This was delicious. Dove right onto it first nite of vaca,not giving it enough time to open but one it did pow! — 13 years ago

Corinne Smith

9.7

Beautiful bold blend with legs — 13 years ago

Alfredo Baena Cejudo

9.7

La Vaca Argentina
— 14 years ago