Scavenged this birth year wine from Cal Poly Pomona’s wine cellar. Actually super clean and lovely! — 7 months ago
Drank at wine bar in Dulles — 2 months ago
#AgedWineTuesday
This is a delicious Napa Cabernet Sauvignon with some nice age.
Full bodied and bold with medium acidity.
Showing blackberries, black currants, plums, cooked cherries, figs, cedar, chocolates, vanilla, licorice, spices, tobacco, herbs, light earth and peppercorn.
Long finish with fine grained tannins and cherries.
Nicely balanced and fruit forward. Rich and flavorful.
This 18 year old still has a lot of life in it, and will continue to age nicely in the next 10 years.
I've had a few vintages of this wine and it is always delicious.
14.5% alcohol by volume.
93 points.
$200. — 6 months ago
Christmas Day Wine, with the ham!!
— 3 months ago
The wines bold flavors and tannins went beautifully with steak. It is a beautifully bold Bordeaux blend with ripe integrated tannins. — 3 months ago
Nearing its peak but my god what a supple, leathery beauty — 7 months ago
Best merlot I’ve had in a long while. Plum, cherry blackberry. Oh so good — 3 years ago
Jay Kline
Flight #1 of our 1997 Retrospective. Presented single-blind; no formal notes. On the nose, this shared similar characteristics to wine #3. The most striking of which was a powerful note of finely ground cumin on the nose. Fruit is mostly desiccated at this point; the structure keeping everything together, but just. I called this to be “Rubicon”. While clearly in the sunset of its life, this showed slightly less energy than the Dalla Valle but no less charm. Drink now.
— 2 months ago