Cakebread Merlot

Duckhorn Vineyards

Three Palms Vineyard Merlot 2015

Dark ruby with aromas of dark red stewed fruits, blackberries, baking spices, and red currants. On the bud, it’s smooth and delicious with more stewed fruits and spices. Excellent with our aged ribeye and baked potato. — 6 days ago

Duckhorn Vineyards

Napa Valley Merlot 2023

Plum and mushroom with a touch of pepper. Good but a little earthy for me. — 13 days ago

Tenuta San Guido

Guidalberto Toscana Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2023

Dark, lush fruits. Soft tannins, but a peppery finish. Great with my Veal Milanese. — 11 days ago

Continuum

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2015

Delicious 🍷!!!! — 5 days ago

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Harlan Estate

Napa Valley Proprietary Red Blend 2004

Opened and decanted for about 2 hours

Evolved from being tight and Bordeaux like to eventually giving off some red fruits and having a kirsch like flavor

Fairly robust and a lot of depth.
— a month ago

Bob, Tom and 4 others liked this

Château Meyney

Saint-Estèphe Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2020

2020 vintage. Last tasted 5.13.26 (9.3). Another bottle picked up at $34.99 USD. Tasted over two days. Plenty of sumptuous, complementary oak in the early going that dissipates with time. Damned tariffs slid this offering from the upper $20's to the mid-$30's but still one helluva BDX bargain and a great introductory BDX for Napa/Brunello converts. Meyney killing it for affordable BDX for years. Get you some. 7.7.26. — a month ago

Ruud, Jeroen and 15 others liked this

Tenuta dell'Ornellaia

Le Volte Toscana Sangiovese Blend

MICHAEL COOPER DipWSET
9.0

Call me old school I still love #supertuscan wines — a month ago

Daniel, Doug and 3 others liked this

Masseto

Toscana Merlot 2020

Incredibly lucky to even taste this, way outside of what I'm familiar with. First thing i noticed is how concentrated the nose is, extremely aromatic, red fruit with a creamy note and oak that is perfectly integrated. Normally I can smell when an ABV is this high but not with this wine. I can't believe how perfectly balanced it is - tannins, fruit, acidity, oak is all the perfect exact amounts so that nothing stands out on its own, but it has such concentrated flavor that everything stands out at the same time — 20 days ago

Château Lascombes

Margaux Merlot Blend 2016

2016 vintage. A decade has allowed this to blossom a bit. Revealing super-subtle complexities now that frequently get lost in appraisals as they posit as fleeting impressions versus unimpeachable, primary truths. Medium body. 8.12.26. — 3 days ago

Doug, Bob and 14 others liked this

Opus One

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2010

A perfect wine. Balanced and complex. A gorgeous first hit of plum with a hint of cherry. So broad fruit at first but then settles on the tongue with a noise terror of tannin. No bitterness just smooth and lovely. Girgeous wine. 2010 vintage gift bottle from Donna and Anders — 14 days ago

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Pahlmeyer

Napa Valley Merlot 2021

KA
9.1

South Beverly Grill BH — a month ago

Marchesi Antinori

Guado al Tasso Bolgheri Superiore Red Bordeaux Blend

Dark tannins, cherries, fig jam and long minerals # — 7 days ago

Château Lynch-Bages

Grand Cru Classé Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon Blend

Phenomenal wine. Tannins are completely softened with dark fruits. Incredibly enjoyable. The 2009 still going strong 17 years later. This can easily stay in bottle another 5-10 years. — a month ago

Cakebread Cellars

Napa Valley Chardonnay 2016

#AgedWineTuesday

Golden in color.

Strong nose of citrus, yellow apples, light pineapples, spices, light cedar, earth, herbs and white pepper.

Full-bodied and elegant with medium acidity.

Dry on the palate with limes, light grapefruits, spices, light oak, earth and herbs.

Long finish with limes and almonds.

This delicious 10 years old Chardonnay from Napa Valley is still drinking beautifully. Very complex, elegant and nicely balanced.

Still showing enough fruits to balance the earth notes. Nicely aged, and will not get better from this point on.

Good right out of the bottle, and better after 20 minutes of airtime.

It's always nice to try these kind of aged wines. Good by itself as a sipping and with food.

100% Chardonnay grapes were aged in (34% new) French Oak barrels for 8 months.

14.2% alcohol by volume.

92 points.

$75.
— 18 days ago

Dave, Martijn and 10 others liked this

Cakebread Cellars

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Reminiscent of the first bottle I had 4 years ago……really good! — 7 days ago

Realm Cellars

The Tempest Napa Valley Red Blend 2023

Full body Black fruit flavors with hints of cinnamon — 18 days ago

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Realm Cellars

The Bard Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2021

Somm David T
9.6

The label I read showed 2019, my host assured me that it was 2021.

The 2021 coming along nicely and showing some beautiful development. Because of its nice integration, I believe this really was 2019. 🤷‍♂️
— a month ago

Tom, Rob and 10 others liked this