Sipping Fine Wine

9.2

Deep Ruby with aromas of dark berry fruits, sweet spice and cedar. Flavors of blackberry, cherry and currant, smooth with vanilla, oak and leather notes. Dusty tannins on long finish ending with espresso tones. Has room to age. Tasting Sample. — 6 years ago

Michael Mathews

9.3

Massive dark earthy tones. Cedar, dark toasted oak, deep terroir on the nose and palate. Very dark inky color. Incredible legs.....long long finish. With such a limited production, you just know this gonna be big and gorgeous and something extraordinary. This can lay for years.....thankfully many bottles still in the cellar. Will only get bigger with the time.... — 8 years ago

with Jeff, PJ and 5 others

Tony Capone

9.3

Decanted for about an hour, and it just flowered, still drinking beautifully, eucalyptus, mint, cedar, spice, this is a big wine, some plum and cherries on the nose, finished with a dark chocolate, the mouth feel was silky. Fabulous! — 9 years ago

Nicholas Livingston

9.4

Trefethen 1993 Cabernet Sauvignon, Oak Knoll District, Napa Valley | A pulchritudinous Napa Cabernet Sauvignon from a legendary house which at 22 years on is gloriously balanced and still full of ripe fruit but at an en pointe equipose in a Bordelaise expression a la Saint-Estèphe. Plenty of red currants, lingonberries, dried cranberries, black currants and blackberries but at this age these are underscored with a vetiver aroma, a pheromonal appeal, and a welcomed edge of currant leaf, cedar, allspice and a penetrating life start to finish. — 11 years ago

Brian Messineo

9.2

Pop and pour. Loads of red fruits and cedar. Has an interesting sweet candy like note that runs through it. Not sure if this is something that integrates with more time or if it’s just the nature of the fruit from this vineyard. — 6 years ago

Willie Carter

9.3

Deep, deep ruby. Wide brim with cherry accents. Beautiful aromatics of stewed plums, milk chocolate, cedar, and ripe red cherries. Yes, you can make the claim that this yet another Merlot that drinks like a Cab and you wouldn’t necessarily be wrong. For me, this is a quintessential Napa Merlot, big and bold with more than enough finesse to separate it from Cabs. Medium to full bodied with round tannins and medium acidity. Just enough fruit on the palate with black cherry, more plums, and cherries. The savory aspects come into play with forest floor, black olives, and oak. Wonderful length and spice on the finish.
— 8 years ago

Brad Hemmer

9.2

Juicy dark fruit, dark chocolate, cedar, leather, smooth, building tannins. — 9 years ago

Jane Day

9.5

Drinking now. Quite stunning. Black currant and other dark fruit with cedar hints. — 10 years ago

Peter Marks

Master of Wine, Educator Constellation Brands

9.4

Intense black currant, plum, cedar and spice. — 11 years ago

Paul K

9.1

A little to pronounced sweet vanilla. Give it time to settle down. — 6 years ago

Ainsley

9.0

Black currant, cedar, leather, cocoa nib and green bell pepper notes supported by supple tannins and med acidity. — 7 years ago

Kapyrick Wine

9.7

V12. Beatiful wine. Cedar, soft smoke, and violet nose. Bright , rich, blackberry, blueberry and plum fruit. Soft, round, peppery,
slightly tannic and chewy finish. Well balanced. — 9 years ago

Kenta Hayashi

9.1

Understated but beautiful minerality. A bit of kerosene and cedar. Yet, fresh with citrus notes and ends on a fleeting moment of smokiness. — 9 years ago

JP Pierce

9.1

Minerality and length with cedar and Rainer cherry and dry grass. — 11 years ago

Michael Thambuswamy

9.3

At Hakkasan — 13 years ago