A Wine Enthusiast 96 at $75:
This tightly wound wine offers masses of black fruits strapped in by firm, sandy tannins that will need further time in the bottle to resolve and soften the texture. Black cherries, black currants, dark chocolate, graphite and cedar all chime in on the palate. The wine has the concentration to match the tannins. Best from 2028–2040.
Their top Quixote Cabernet ever – and rated up there with many of the Shafer Hillsides and Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cask 23s! (Indeed, they rate this over some vintages of Shafer hillside that other critics gave 100-point scores!) And it rates over every Cliff Lede Stags Leap Cabernet ever…among MANY others of note.
No wonder this one sold out everywhere else…and for more,
Frankly, I can’t believe our supplier still had any of this. (And I think they didn’t realize they did, either. Finding unexpected treasures is so much fun!) In any case, we jumped right on it.
