Ron Siegel

9.3

Perfect condition btl from an owc that is in its prime with many yrs left showing red, black fruits, currant, cedar, leather, earth, licorice, menthol, spice box & tobacco. — 2 years ago

Bill Mowry

9.3

Understated cassis, mint, and leather. Nicely balanced. Beautifully paired with prime rib. — 4 years ago

with Amelia, Paul and 1 other

David Stein

9.5

Getting into prime time! — 4 years ago

with Bruce

Michael Phillips

9.2

Brownish edge restrained nose leathery and garrigue at or slightly past prime but still lovely — 5 years ago

Cory Bolton

9.6

I have an affinity to Mike Smith wines. Let this baby breathe for a couple hours and it opens up well. Prime for drinking now — bold, dense fruit flavor that you’d come to expect from a Napa cab powerhouse wine maker. Full body and long peppery finish. Still a winner in my book. — 6 years ago

Chad Thompson

8.9

Might be the bottle but just a bit past its prime. Still good - sweet core, good acid, dark fruits. — 7 years ago

CYesh

9.0

A bit past it’s prime but the bones are still there. Delicious. — 8 years ago

Leo Gentile

9.5

Deep purple with a hint of brick. Cassis and leather and meat in the nose. Pencil graphite cassis violet and a little tar. Rich jammy black fruit. Delicious. Serving with Prime grade rib roast. Sorry to have only one bottle — 3 years ago

Paul J

9.5

Very nice! 1hr+ decant. Dark red color. Prime drinking time. Nose has dark cherries, coconut, and cedar. Wine is deep and extremely smooth. Medium finish. Classic Napa Cab! — 4 years ago

with Brooke

Tom Garland

9.3

1.5 hour decant(surprisingly just a little cloudy sediment). A prodigious medium dark garnet color with little signs of aging. On the nose: funky stewed meats, blackberry, smoke, plum, minty pepper, creme de cassis. Taste: KABOOM! Rich, silky, full body wine with blackberry, earth, cedar, wet gravel, menthol and a cassis pencil lead long finish with some ashy tannins. In its prime drinking window and this 13.8% alc wine should rock another 10 years. Cheers! — 5 years ago

with Brenda

Josh Morgenthau

9.2

Blackberry jam nose with some leather, tar and leaf litter. Color is quite opaque and garnet with just a little bricking. Lots of dark ripe fruit and preserved fruit on the palate. Full body, quite rich, powdery, and tannins still quite prominent. Very satisfying. Just entering its prime- may be better in 5-10. — 5 years ago

Benjamin Keator

9.5

Unfortunately we were not able to give this a proper decant this time. Nonetheless the quality and finesse still shines through. IMO the 2003 is just now entering it prime drinking window. Tannins have softened nicely. Good fruit integration. Still needs a bit of time in the glass to open. Over the course of an hour it was only getting better and better. Wish we had had time to do a 4-5 hr decant. — 7 years ago

with Jimmy

Bill Bender

9.6

Silky sexiness. Black licorice, tobacco, bruised plum. An ethereal experience paired with prime porterhouse, black truffle and foie gras. Can’t get much better for me on a warm San Diego October night. — 8 years ago

Enrico Pallazzo

8.9

Way past it’s prime, edging towards undrinkable. Drank on 4/18/22 — 4 years ago

Dylan Thomas

9.1

Prime 47 Indy, a bit young — 4 years ago

Kenneth Hargreaves

8.9

Nice nose, good initial palette, slides off the end at this point, but, for the price point, awesome with prime NY strip — 5 years ago

Martin Sher

9.3

Perhaps a little past prime, but these two Alexes from the mid 90s are so wonderfully elegant. — 5 years ago

Philip Dobrin

9.1

A little muddled. Great nose but exhibits neither the complexity of a mature wine nor the structure of one its prime. — 6 years ago

Paul Krzych

9.1

Well worth the price. Drinking very well and perfect with prime rib. — 7 years ago

Justin Sun

9.4

A little past it’s prime - but that nose tho. Wowzers. — 7 years ago