Bill Bender

9.5

It was a slow build but this reached impressive heights. A classic being classic. — 7 years ago

Steve Williams

9.3

“When a lovely flame dies, smoke gets in your wine...”apologies to the Platters. My goodness, the smoke is up front, setting up for warm plum, and dried cherry. A long, slow, dry finish. An enjoyable wine from beginning to end. “When your heart’s on fire, you must realize, smoke gets in your wine.” Shared by Mayor Bob. With Hall, Joanna. After a visit to Moose & Virginia Mack’s. — 8 years ago

Michał Ptaszek

9.5

Slow post-18.4 Saturday. First day without K (Utah spring break) — 8 years ago

Cara Fleck Plewinski

10

Light and crisp! Bought at Wine Cellars of Annapolis — 9 years ago

Marshall Brentnall

10

Delicious red from the son of Peter Lehman. — 10 years ago

Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Cafe

9.9

Classic elegance. Ultimate tranquility in a bottle with strength and substance. — 10 years ago

Matthew Beckman

9.2

6+ he slow ox decant. Still mostly primary aromas and flavored. Will be a gem in 10+ — 10 years ago

Jeffrey Lew

9.7

Ex-Chateau bottle. Testament to perfect storage. Light Amber edge with a darker core. Started off full of toast and just a whiff of brett. Slow ox for 2 hrs then poured. Amazing life for a 54yr old wine still in its stride. Light and dark fruit with seamless integrity and polish. Classic old BDX. After the initial funk blew off it kept developing in the glass. I could drink this all night long. Awesome — 11 years ago

Alex Westphal

8.9

Nett, aber nix extraordinäres. Sehr rund und tief. Kann man bestimmt zwei bis drei Flaschen hintereinandertrinken.
Qatar Airways doha berlin. — 12 years ago

Chas Worley

9.6

Lemon and ripe pear aroma. Taste of yellow apple. Very refreshing. — 12 years ago

Nick Loveridge

9.2

Cheap and tasty — 13 years ago

Severn G

9.6

A fantastic showing!

This was a pop-and-pour bottle, I wanted to decant, but was leery it could come apart quickly...Wow I was so wrong on my presumption.

Nose has loamy-raspberry, violets, charred oak, tarry-blackberry, dehydrated cherry and plum.
Palate has plum-raspberry, 'Rutherford' dust, leather, moist soils, ripe cherry, acidity is light but present, tannins are soft but still noticable. Youthful, very long finish.

Likely bottles in pristine condition, such as this, could enjoy another 10-15 years of life. We've had 70's BV GdL's that showed more advanced than this bottle, color is still a beautiful gem red/purple, no brick at all.

We bought this many years ago, as massive fans of Freemark Abbey and Beaulieu Vineyards, we have been looking forward to the right time for this bottle. I do believe that BV used to buy Cabernet fruit from John Bosché to go into this 100% Cabernet wine, and I think that '68 might have been the last year before BV went to all estate fruit. So this is a perfect collaboration of our favorites. A truly special bottle none the less.

This bottle is why you cellar great CA Cabernet and don't drink it all on release. I think this vintage could be similar to 2013, in 50 years...

We paired this with a slow and low roasted beef sirloin roast, meat temperature was closely watched, result was a wonderful medium rare finish, sliced thinly this was a great match to the wine. — 8 years ago

Nicole

8.9

I snuck aboard the space station and made my way to the holding cell where I was told the princess was being held. Upon breaking down the door, I was confronted by a short person in a diaper and odd headdress who said "I'm sorry, but the princess is in another death star".

About that time all the alarms in the space station started going off.

After some brief firefights I found myself cornered, my only escape to done down a shoot into a garbage compactor. So I did. Once in the trash compactor I met a friendly monster called a Dianoga. We shared a lovely bottle of Slow Press while the walls of the compactor slowly closed in on us.

Fortunately for me, I'm the hero of this tale and, as such, made a timely escape, rescued the princess (eventually), and managed to do it all without realizing I had spilled wine on myself. — 9 years ago

Mike Leapley Jr.

8.9

Legs for days. I let it breathe for two hours very nice drinking wine.
— 9 years ago

Johanna Peterson

9.3

Wonderful and sweet without being sugary. Bought a few bottles of this and had friends over when the 2 bottles ran out I thought they were going to protest ! Ran back to Grocery Outlet and bought 4 more bottles :-) crowd pleaser — 10 years ago

Christanna Honer

9.3

Crisp, off dry and delightful. — 11 years ago

Ryan Wineinger

8.9

Good mid price Pinot — 11 years ago

James Gordon

9.0

Like these two older versions better than the young one. — 11 years ago

B

10

Magnum 2008 Screaming Eagle Cab. Wine #4 for K's birthday dinner at Press. Really interesting to drink this after having the Harlan vertical at lunch and side-by-side with the Heitz and Martini. This 2008 much more ready to drink than Harlan. We decanted for an hour before drinking, but it was still really muscular and chewy. Was really delicious to drink while having our steak. Awesome treat. — 12 years ago

Rene Garay

9.7

Great wine with pork or chicken — 13 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.4

Beautiful, dark red, perfume fruits. Black currants, blackberries, dark cherries, black plum, black raspberries, boysenberries, lots of blue fruits, expresso, anise, leather, some graphite, sweet dark moist soils, medium intensity volcanic minerals, limestone with blue and dark red floral bouquet.

The body is full. The tannins are round and nicely soften. The structure, length, tension and balance have hit harmony with plenty of life left ahead. Dark currants, blackberries, dark cherries, black plum, black raspberries, boysenberries, loads of blue fruits, expresso roast, anise, dark chocolate, a little caramel, leather, some graphite, leather, dry tobacco, touch of dry herbs, sweet dark moist soils, medium intensity volcanic minerals, limestone and blue and dark red floral bouquet. The acidity is round and beautiful. The finish is long, very well balanced, elegant, polished and lasts minutes.

Photos of; The barn used for winemaking and to host tastings. The first harvested Cabernet grapes of the season, an old school basket press that decorates their grounds, Estate vines and a giant fan to dry the vines if needed amongst the hilltop mountains that surround the Estate. — 8 years ago

Jeff Thornhill

9.2

Very good. Great bouquet, flavor and finish. Worth the $16. Definitely a repeat purchase. — 8 years ago

Eric Egan

9.4

What a beautifully graceful wine! A bit muted on the nose (slow ox for three hours - perhaps I should have decanted) but one of the most amazingly expressive palates I have experienced for a very long time. All the elements in perfect equilibrium; one of the rare times that I would actually apply the term 'smooth' to a wine. Tannins still lightly peppery, poised acidity, and an insanely long velvety finish that kept revealing hidden layers of complexity. Like a Burgundian peacock's tail that keeps expanding, adding new layers of graceful shades and patterns to the rolling tapestry of flavour. — 9 years ago

Peter Lutz

9.1

What can I say? I love a granache. — 10 years ago

Marshall Todd Herron DPM

9.5

Tonight we are drinking Machete 2014 California red wine bottled by Orin Swift Cellars. The one with the naked lady on the front of the bottle standing beside her car with the door open. Hummmmm. Well the cork was well preserved. The color is dark and the legs are long and slow. The bouquet is blackberry cobbler. The initial palate is slamming with sweet black currant - whatever that is so Im guessing because I have never tasted a currant. However, I just ordered the juice! The flavor is blackberry and cherry! The finish is very dry with a short ending of vanilla and a tart cherry pie. Simply Devine! I want another sip! It is sweet but very dry! I love it! — 10 years ago

Peter Scudamore-Smith MW

9.1

A fine wine for 2002; very closed on nose and palate; slow to evolve and a very delicate style; camphor- cedar oak; acidity currently a primary taste; 13%; tasted in Brisbane — 11 years ago

Ninon Lecru-Chalon

9.2

Opening slow but after very nice with exotic fruits — 11 years ago

Leon Ridge-Cooke

10

Orange & honey infused straight eye whiskey — 12 years ago

Michael Slomer

9.6

Last bottle! Being discontinued at the restaurant — 13 years ago

Kiley Maitrott-Adams

9.2

Excellent tasting big nose cabernet. Fruity with a chocolate finish. Trader Joes $8.00! — 13 years ago

with Debra