Sipping Fine Wine

9.2

Just love this wine, great value, can’t get enough! Belle Pente (bell-pont') means "beautiful slope" - for their 70 acre hillside vineyard & winery site in Willamette Valley. Bright Ruby red with aromas of red fruits, herb spices and hints of blossom notes. On the palate strawberry and cherry flavors, slight sweet undertones, herb notes and smooth tannins. Well balanced on a long finish ending with mineral herb notes. Nice!! Great value. — 4 years ago

Kevin Blix

9.0

Easy drinking silky 2004 — 6 years ago

Rob Mullen

9.3

Classic cab franc, just love it
Graphite and bell pepper on the nose, blueberry in the mouth
Tannins have rounded out, but enough remaining for any of you lucky souls having more of this in the cellar to hold out for another year or two — 7 years ago

Greg Ballington

Co-Founder of Millennial Drinkers Wine Blog

8.9

Dark ruby red with a purplish hue. Good dark fruits on the nose with some forest floor and truffles. Light bell peppers in the finish. Moderate tannins (5.5/10) and medium bodied. Lots of soft dark fruits and damp leaves. Medium plus finish. Great restaurant wine and solid Sonoma Cabernet. Drink till 2022. — 8 years ago

with Sean

Cody Short

9.2

Drinking really well. Wonderful notes of tobacco, lead pencil, earthy and a touch of bell pepper. — 8 years ago

Marit Wangstad

8.9

What you would expect from Silver Oak. On the nose, green bell pepper, mint, rose, and cherry. On the palate, sour cherry, strawberry, green bell pepper, medium plus tannins, but still very smooth. #lifeisacabernet #winelife #napavalleycabs #bigredwines — 8 years ago

Aaron Pott

9.0

Beautiful Left Bank Cabernet Cassis and bell pepper. Lovely texture. 81 Medoc is singing now. — 9 years ago

Mark Andrew

9.0

Nice and smooth. Citrus and refreshing. — 9 years ago

Cary Welton

9.0

For the price point, this Big Dog can definitely hunt! Soft pepper and smooth tannins, slight black cherry make this a winner with Ferrero Rocher and House of Lies. — 9 years ago

Lesa Gough

8.9

Cali Zin with refinement. Very nice. Need to get more of this. — 10 years ago

Jonathan McCarthy

9.1

Really needs some time in the decanter, wound up super tight. Funky earthy nose with sour cherry and topsoil, very fleshy, rustic body of blue and red fruits, a bit of red bell pepper, bakers chocolate, loads of pencil shavings, a faint suggestion of spruce. Really crunch skeleton with serious, almost saline minerality. Fruit fades before the minerals and earth. Really complex. Give it plenty of air and a long ponder. — 5 years ago

Robert Stackowiak

9.2

85 percent Cab with blend of complementary reds. Should age well. June 2018. — 6 years ago

Filip Rokita

9.1

Nice smooth body 😉.
Jokes aside was shocked how good this Syrah is. Full bodied, chocolate covered in cherries (yes that way around) with a hint of cherries covered in chocolate mixed in with some plums (tastes like ripen in plum barrels?). Good intensity!

Goes well with spicy food , it stands it's ground in regards to density and volume. And taste. love it!

— 7 years ago

"Odedi"

9.2

It's time for my Friday's Cabernet fix. This time, a wonderful Chilean Cabernet.

Deep purple in color with a purplish rim.

Beautiful nose of blueberries, blackberries, black currants, plums, cooked cherries, oak, vanilla, licorice, earth, spices, peppercorn, leather, bell pepper, sage, peppermint, eucalyptus and smoke.

Full bodied with medium acidity and beautiful long legs.

Dry on the palate with blackberries, black currants, cherries, figs, cloves, herbs, earth, cola, vanilla, oak, spices, light vegetables, coffee, chocolates, bell pepper, tobacco, beef jerky and peppercorn.

Long finish with firm tannins and black pepper.

An elegant, Single Vineyard, Cabernet Sauvignon from Chile, with lots of complexity and fitness, but not fully balanced yet.

Still young now, but very enjoyable by itself, and better with BBQ Meats. I paired it with a cheese platter, crackers and nice company.

Grapes are grown at the foot hills of the Andes Mountains, on stony soils. 99% Cabernet Sauvignon and 1% Cabernet Franc.

14.5% alcohol by volume. — 8 years ago

Kelly Richardson

9.1

Nice tastes of pineapple and grapefruit. Goes well with shrimp, lite pasta and a very nice pineapple salsa. — 9 years ago

Matt Beyard

9.1

Decent acidity and classic SB cat pee nose. Great with our artichokes and my grilled cheese. Great stuff. — 9 years ago

Ben Leger

8.9

Solid Cab Franc. Mushroom, coulis of red bell pepper. Soft easy mouthfeel. #chinon #cabernetfranc #bernardbaudry — 9 years ago

Jen Lorenzo

9.3

Berries and bell peppers — 9 years ago

Morgan Collins

9.4

I usually don't like Merlot but this is really delicious. Mellow subtle flavor. — 10 years ago

Nate Stiles

9.0

Really nice and soft. Well balanced and goes down easily. — 10 years ago

Patrick

9.0

Nice bottle. Rounded out fruit and tannins, great pairing with Italian. — 5 years ago

FinerTastes

9.4

Celebrating Christmas with our favorite red blend. — 5 years ago

with Sarah and Kristen

Evan Roberts

9.5

Woah best of tonight's trio, gracefully aged. Everything I want in vintage Bordeaux. Leather, bell pepper, hints of pepper and spice. Elegant finish. Oh lord this bottle went too fast — 7 years ago

Patrick Hu

9.5

Wet stones, saddle leather, bell pepper. — 7 years ago

Kathryn Innes

9.0

A great day to rosé — 8 years ago

Tim Herrmann

9.4

This bottle was in a great, great place--lots of expressive floral notes like iris and violet, still plenty of blueberry, blackberry, and cherry fruit, refreshing green notes like fresh cut herbs, green bell pepper, and pencil shavings. Aromatic, and integrated, this has richness but also a Loire-like restraint. Like a swing and a hit right from the sweet spot. — 8 years ago

Austen Ito

8.9

Melon, floral, mango nose. Nice acid, medium body. Mango, honeydew, bell pepper with light mineralaity. — 9 years ago

Beau Carufel

Winemaker/Owner Random Wine Company

8.9

1983. Needed an hour or more but then it had beautiful leather, bell pepper, and earth. The brett was pretty manageable too. — 9 years ago

Justin Timsit, MS

Wine Director, The Rittenhouse

8.9

Classic with red cherry, tobacco, dust and green bell pepper — 9 years ago

Judy Toyota

10

The best SB I have ever experienced! — 10 years ago