Last Thursday life deception
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:26 am
Last Thursday was my monthly tasting group, with the theme of California Cabernet Sauvignon. 6 bottles were over 50 $cad, and the two first wine cheaper.
First, at the end of the tasting, we always do a tour of everyone to do each our top 5 wines of the night. Last Thursday, for a first time for me, i did a top 2 only! And let say my favorite wine was the one I brought, but rated it only 91.
My 2004 Freemark Abbey Bosché was very good. More elegance and acidity than the others, good blackberries, coffee, berries, earth, some oak, but all in a medium convenient way. Mellowed, medium long, very good to excellent... Only. Tn 91.
Second favorite was the meritage blend 2005 St-Supéry Elu. Rich in a Californian way, but still having some freshness in the good merlot berry fruit, mixed with the darkberries from the Cab. Blackcurrant cream, light cookie, purple flower, very good. Tn: 90.
All the other, I did not care very much.the other "promising" wine that night was the 2013 Inglenook 1882, but it was soooo closed on the nose and limited in mouth, couldn't make my mind. The 2013 Frei Brothers or the 2014 Beringer Knights Valley were thick, syrupy, spicy, very sweet fruit. The 2005 Heitz Bella Oak was more looking like a non fruity Chilean wine, with extreme aromas and flavors of mint, eucalyptus, pine tree. Fresh, final is eucalyptus and oak, i never understood that wine, of what the producer was looking for. Last one, i taste it 3 sips and it was enough. I couldn't believe some people rave about that wine. The 2014 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon is a wreck. Black purple color, nose of hyper concentrated fruit, that concentrate every negative aspect of the fruit. Sugar, candy, cola, strawberry cola, lush vanilla, super soapy, tiring to drink, thick syrup, forget about any freshness or structure, undrinkable and without soul. Don't know if this will "age gracefully", but I will never know as I really thought life is too important to drink wine like that. Make more red wines tasting like that, and i will quit my wine hobby easily. I just can't believe you can ruin some nice Cab Sauvignon like that.
So dstgolf, i think i would exchange that Californian Cab tasting with your Mouton tasting, anytime!
Nic
First, at the end of the tasting, we always do a tour of everyone to do each our top 5 wines of the night. Last Thursday, for a first time for me, i did a top 2 only! And let say my favorite wine was the one I brought, but rated it only 91.
My 2004 Freemark Abbey Bosché was very good. More elegance and acidity than the others, good blackberries, coffee, berries, earth, some oak, but all in a medium convenient way. Mellowed, medium long, very good to excellent... Only. Tn 91.
Second favorite was the meritage blend 2005 St-Supéry Elu. Rich in a Californian way, but still having some freshness in the good merlot berry fruit, mixed with the darkberries from the Cab. Blackcurrant cream, light cookie, purple flower, very good. Tn: 90.
All the other, I did not care very much.the other "promising" wine that night was the 2013 Inglenook 1882, but it was soooo closed on the nose and limited in mouth, couldn't make my mind. The 2013 Frei Brothers or the 2014 Beringer Knights Valley were thick, syrupy, spicy, very sweet fruit. The 2005 Heitz Bella Oak was more looking like a non fruity Chilean wine, with extreme aromas and flavors of mint, eucalyptus, pine tree. Fresh, final is eucalyptus and oak, i never understood that wine, of what the producer was looking for. Last one, i taste it 3 sips and it was enough. I couldn't believe some people rave about that wine. The 2014 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon is a wreck. Black purple color, nose of hyper concentrated fruit, that concentrate every negative aspect of the fruit. Sugar, candy, cola, strawberry cola, lush vanilla, super soapy, tiring to drink, thick syrup, forget about any freshness or structure, undrinkable and without soul. Don't know if this will "age gracefully", but I will never know as I really thought life is too important to drink wine like that. Make more red wines tasting like that, and i will quit my wine hobby easily. I just can't believe you can ruin some nice Cab Sauvignon like that.
So dstgolf, i think i would exchange that Californian Cab tasting with your Mouton tasting, anytime!
Nic