This is a tasty Napa Cabernet. Showing black fruits, cedar, vanilla, licorice, tobacco, chocolates, mocha and coffee.
Full-bodied and smooth with soft tannins with nice length on the finish.
Good by itself or with food. Showing a nice mouthfeel with nice complexity. Spicy and tangy.
This will be beautiful in 5 years.
14.5% alcohol by volume.
91 points.
$80. — 7 years ago
Plenty of fruit. Not very complex but good body. Thanksgiving 2018 Houston — 8 years ago
So good. Smooth, not much alcohol bite. Can’t beat this — 8 years ago
This is very good. Roughly 20bucks at bevmo but part of the 5 cent lineup. Light and tasty. — 8 years ago
Unreal quality. Smoke olives, and cured meat mingled w blue fruit and herbs.... high acid. Stupid good! — 9 years ago
Really good zin. Some of the best of Bedrock — 7 years ago
Seriously good. Deep, dark fruit notes of blueberry and blackberry. — 8 years ago
Vino Volvo Airport. 2003 very good. — 9 years ago
Onoaked Bright with a wonderful nose.
Dry very good. Unique flavor — 9 years ago
Nose has mashed blackberry, ripe black current, ripe black cherry, wet saddle leather, horse barn, dried mint, fried green herbs, chopped bacon, muddy garden soil, constantly developing...
Palate has mahogany shavings, black cherry 🍒, dried garden soil, day old bacon bacon 🥓, over-ripe black currant, warm dark chocolate, (minor) baking spice with a very long and intense finish. This wine has at least a decade in front of it tonight. Perfect, supple cork on extraction.
Still quite tannic, decanted 4h, needs much more time to reveal it's true self.
My retailer commented this was not a standard CA Cabernet, more Bordeaux-like, and he was fully on point. The stink on the nose really pointed us away from CA right away.
Paired to some expertly grilled, medium-rare Delmonico steaks from my favorite, local farmer in Columbia Co. NY (Kinderhook Farm), well salted (in advance). Finished with Maldon smoked sea salt, best which exists in the world, IMHO. Also roasted beets with goat feta from VT, where I can only image goats listen to Phish and eat Ben & Jerry's ice cream daily, because only a stress free life like that could yield cheese this good.
I'd like to know the blend on this, should anyone know, I can't believe it's 100% Cab based on the stinky nose, which we appreciate. — 6 years ago
Nice tannins, great fruit flavor and spice! Needs some time to open up but very good. — 7 years ago
Real good. It would be be be tasty wif some cheez — 7 years ago

Good blend. A little punchy, but not too much — 8 years ago
$16.88 Costco Surprisingly good. A little sweet but very nice. Would buy again. — 9 years ago
Mildly obsessed with this wine. So good! I wish I could get some more. — 9 years ago
Brian
Strawberry with a little dark cherry maybe. Good balance. — 5 years ago