Ron R

9.4

I just found this hiding in our cellar, given the age on the wine, I thought that this would need to be dispatched with urgency. I could not have been further from how it actually presented.
The nose is lively and almost raucous. Loads of cherry jam and cinnamon. The palate is dense and compact, showing absolutely no signs of aging. Cherries, cedar and sweet jam are joined by powerful tannins. I’m floored as to how well this has presented. Kudos to the winery. — 2 months ago

with Anne-marie

Peter Sultan

9.1

New Years bottle. No notes; exuberant red fruits, in balance. Still, I preferred a Bourgogne red at the table, as this not suited to my palate, feels somehow monolithic & uni dimensional — 4 months ago

Leslie

9.2

The wines bold flavors and tannins went beautifully with steak. It is a beautifully bold Bordeaux blend with ripe integrated tannins. — 5 months ago

Ericsson

9.2

Starter from Inglenook lineup and must say it is a middle of the road between an old world v a classic fruit forward Napa Cab. Crowd pelase for sure. — 7 months ago

Canon Thomas

9.4

Scavenged this birth year wine from Cal Poly Pomona’s wine cellar. Actually super clean and lovely! — 9 months ago

Monique Blanchard

9.4

Celebrating with Angela great cab — 3 years ago

Chris Koupal

9.4

Big fruit. Delicious! — 4 years ago

Kristin the Wine Girl

9.1

Just love the Bordeaux blend. Cab, cab franc, Merlot, petite Verdot. Jam on. — 6 years ago

Nathan King

9.3

Complex & luscious with lengthy finish . Notes of dark fruit and clean oak. All components of this wine thrive in harmony. Excellent product — 8 years ago

Christian Damiano

9.4

Locavore wine tasting — 10 years ago

Karen Prettol

9.8

Really good! Fruity — a month ago

Severn Goodwin

9.1

Blind dinner, open theme, at Little Cat Lodge, Hillsdale, NY.

(From our cellar.) — 3 months ago

Doug Scott

9.6

Roses, ripe red fruit, blackberries, chocolate, wet earth, leather. Full bodied, mouth coating texture really stands out especially first day. Very smooth tannins, sage-savory rich finish. — 4 months ago

Steve Belmonte

9.5

Amazing smooth vino. Melted in my mouth. Oh my! — 6 months ago

Paul K

9.3

Checking in on this. More tobacco, earth, and, espresso than I recall. I recall purity of red and black fruit. Rating a little lower, but nothing out of place. Evolution going well. Think in a transition period. Check back in a year. ttyt — 7 months ago

Marc Melser

9.4

We had the 2013 Vintage on 5/2-3/21. This was a terrific full bodied, well balanced wine. Tastes of blackberry, plum, kirsch and vanilla on the palate. The tannins were smoothed out. A great example of the Napa floor. — 3 years ago

Pooneet K

9.1

Really a very nice Napa Cabernet from a great vineyard site in a good drinking place age wise. On cork pop the oak was too overbearing - that sort of oaky sweetness that I don’t care for. But decanted for a couple hours as a result and quite nice after that. Deep violet in the glass. Deep dark fruit notes. Unmistakably Napa, for sure. Some glycerin feel. But a long finish with just enough acid to keep it together. I don’t often drink Napa cab, but on a fall day with burgers it’s hard to complain. — 4 years ago

Kevin Pansky

9.0

Fruit forward, smooth tannins, and great finish. — 6 years ago

Alex Tso

10

Zomg AMAZING — 7 years ago

Robert Shannon

9.9

Superb full body with mellow tannins & fine finish; pairing with rare prime tenderloin, asparagus & corn on the cob watching TPC Tourney. — 9 years ago

with Philip

Conrad Green

9.1

A slightly off hint of butterscotch on the nose. Dense dark fruit with stone and poised. A shame about the nose as the fruit is great — 2 months ago

with Paul and Ara

Jay Kline

9.2

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.
— 3 months ago

Brent S

9.0

Questionable QPR — 4 months ago

Charlie Tapp

9.1

Dark red fruit, bramble, cocoa powder and cola. — 6 months ago

Nagib Nasr

9.0

Citrus, pleasant and wonderful as a starter wine. — 9 months ago

with Piers and Tripp

Ming L

9.3

A charming left bank blend with a high percentage of CF for 15’. Blueberry, cassis, espresso, dried herbs, and lavender. Hint of crushed rocks too. Medium to full body. A harmonious palate with round gentle acidity, lush texture, and grainy yet polished firm elegant tannins. Lingering lightly candied finish.
Finesse and classy, yet so approachable. — 3 years ago

Severn Goodwin

9.2

Nose has over-ripe stinky cherry, dry leather, moist leather, old horse pasture, tomato leaf, blackberry, dried blueberry, dried mint, saturated oak and old cigar.

Palate has blackberry, partially dried cherry, dried raspberry, (minor) moist garden soil, wet raisins with soft tannins and a long finish. Decanted 4H and it's finally starting to really open up.

Mid-shoulder fill on this particular bottle, remaining bottles are looking better. Quite reminiscent of older Bordeaux in the nose/palate traits.

(BTW I love the old labels when they used to underscore the Cabernet Sauvignon, for me it's always been Cabernet Bosché, history in a bottle!) — 4 years ago

Brandon T

9.1

Bit of a fruit bomb. Solid but not a ton going on here. — 6 years ago

with JRM and Sam

Rob Sternthal

9.2

This is another fruit forward jelly bomb. I'm seeing a theme on 2012s. I love this stuff. Still a little tannic. Maybe decanting will help. — 8 years ago

Nick Del Grande

9.1

Dry with some earthy tones. — 10 years ago