Mark Pagliaro

Winemaker Stone & Key Cellars

9.5

Beautiful velvet Cabernet paired with our Pollo Marsala tonight.! Very well balanced red fruit and smoothly silky tannins. Love Stags Leap!!! — 8 years ago

Stephen Jackshaw

9.4

This is a beautiful wine. Tannins shed, drinking like velvet and pure. Berries, cherries, some leather, and a long finish. I could sit with this and a charred steak every night. — 9 years ago

Isaac Pirolo

9.2

Dark, rich, and dusty. It's hard to avoid the power of suggestion, but this really is liquid velvet. — 9 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.4

Dark and brooding tawny purple, opaque. Killer nose of smoked meat, bacon, white pepper, red plums and stone. Rich velvet texture in the mouth. Coats the palate. Performing very well right now. — 10 years ago

Sarah O'Kelley

9.0

Such a balanced new world merlot - dark fruit & earth & chocolate. Restrained & serious. Not wearing that new world velvet cloak 😉 — 10 years ago

with M and Jesse

Craig Benner

9.1

Baby Velvet Glove. Very drinkable. #troby60th — 11 years ago

with Jim

April Wang

8.9

Raspberry chocolate. Velvet on the tongue. Medium finish. — 11 years ago

David MacMillan

9.2

Maybe the best last call wine...... 2011 is probably the best example of MD since 05-06 — 11 years ago

with Stephen

Max Rieger

9.1

Insanely good for the price — 12 years ago

Erin Belz

10

I love this red wine. To me, it goes well with maybe chili or taco salad. — 14 years ago

with Patrick

Allison Bothley

9.1

Yummy. Would drink again. Great for a glass. — 8 years ago

Thomas Lee Gurrentz

10

Liquid velvet. Probably the most drinkable wine I have had in years. — 9 years ago

Stephen Mandy

9.1

Subdued somewhat closed Bordeaux nose, rich silky velvet texture on the palate with excellent fruit and balance. Many years in its future. — 9 years ago

Joe Kaiser

9.4

15-year old California Cab Blend does NOT disappoint. This had a wonder black fruit/dark/chocolate/forest floor nose, wonderful velvet mouth feel, fine integrated tannins, long finish. The 3rd hour it hit its stride! — 9 years ago

Marek Svanda

8.9

Easy. Smells okay. But it's not. Smooth. Dark fruit — 10 years ago

Quinton L DuBose

9.0

Oaky, but not too much, very full flavor with a velvet finish. A little bit of pecan, and a tart cherry flavor. VERY good. — 10 years ago

Karen Salerno

10

I love this well named wine — 11 years ago

Lily Mirabelle Freedman

9.7

Chomped cigar, dried cherries, and velvet. — 11 years ago

Alan Childs

9.7

Big wine great balance of fruit velvet finish — 11 years ago

with Brian

Nadea Mina

9.6

East drinking, smooth, blend, fruit and chocolate — 13 years ago

Thomas Young

9.3

Mel Torme checked with Caymus before he put on his velvet outfits. — 9 years ago

Jennifer Alvarez

9.5

Berry velvet juicy delicious — 9 years ago

Judy

9.6

One of my favorites, smooth and full bodied, off dry — 9 years ago

Mike Saviage

9.8

Deep garnet with amber rims, almost opaque. A little darker compared to the 82 CB next to it. Great old Bordeaux nose. Black fruit, pencil lead, plus some light notes of wood. Chewy in the mouth at first but over the night this goes to a velvet and silky place. The WOTN for me. Quieted down at the end of the night but gave us huge enjoyment, clearly outshining the 47 and 82 served with it. Tasting all these blind and then side by side over 4 hours is pretty awesome. — 9 years ago

Pierre Arneaux

9.2

Wow. More flavor, much better than their regular cab. Silky, velvet, smooth. Chocolate. Rich fruit. Big, full flavor, lots of flavor. Not old world style for sure, not subtle. It's a big bomb. We would pay up to $75 for this so a bit overpriced to us.
— 10 years ago

Bill Bender

9.6

Fantastic bottle of wine that was completely reflective of the house and the vintage, powerful velvet covered magic carpet ride of deep red fruits...concentrated and weighty yet showed a lot of finesse. I'd say it has 15+ years — 10 years ago

Scott Miller

9.2

2003 and delicious, 30 min decant and luscious velvet on the tongue, plum, subtle oak, cedar, chocolate covered cherries. — 11 years ago

Nima Khoshini

9.2

Creamy, chocolatey, yummy — 11 years ago

Aaron Rankin

9.6

Velvet and spice and chocolate and silk and brandy soaked maraschino cherries in your mouth for a long time. Can't wait to have this again in 10 years. — 12 years ago

Parag Lalit

9.6

Clearly one of my favourites from Bordeaux. A very under rated vintage under the shadow of 2000's. Iron fist in a velvet glove is what I think of this lovely wine. Spherical, sexy and very serious.18,5 ++/20 — 13 years ago