Bond
Vecina Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley, California, USA
Good golly. My palate is shot.
But I know great when I taste it.
Good golly. My palate is shot.
But I know great when I taste it.
I’m usually not a fan of Vecina - just too euro tasting for me. But this? I could become a fan.
I’m usually not a fan of Vecina - just too euro tasting for me. But this? I could become a fan.
Feb 28th, 2021
A recent gift from someone with whom I do business. Nice gift.
Started slow...still needed more time than a hour decant. But, really started to blossom on the second pour.
This was about as savory & herbaceous as a Napa Cabernet gets. After 19 years in bottle slightly over delivering on its RP rating.
A better Allen Brothers Ribcap wine than the 04 Cos D’ Estournel at this point & time.
A recent gift from someone with whom I do business. Nice gift.
Started slow...still needed more time than a hour decant. But, really started to blossom on the second pour.
This was about as savory & herbaceous as a Napa Cabernet gets. After 19 years in bottle slightly over delivering on its RP rating.
A better Allen Brothers Ribcap wine than the 04 Cos D’ Estournel at this point & time.
Dark ruby-red. Aromas of cassis, black cherry, blackberry, mocha and licorice. Concentrated, dense and fully ripe, conveying a much more pliant texture today than the 2002. But this is also sappy, fine-grained and nicely delineated, with its dark berry and black cherry fruit flavors given shape by a brooding element of savory minerality. Not hugely sweet, though, and clearly less liqueur-like than the 2002. Finishes with substantial dusty tannins that should carry this wine for at least another 15 years. (Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, June 2020)
Dark ruby-red. Aromas of cassis, black cherry, blackberry, mocha and licorice. Concentrated, dense and fully ripe, conveying a much more pliant texture today than the 2002. But this is also sappy, fine-grained and nicely delineated, with its dark berry and black cherry fruit flavors given shape by a brooding element of savory minerality. Not hugely sweet, though, and clearly less liqueur-like than the 2002. Finishes with substantial dusty tannins that should carry this wine for at least another 15 years. (Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, June 2020)
Sampled 4/29/2019 at “Taste of Oakville”.
Sampled 4/29/2019 at “Taste of Oakville”.
May 12th, 2019
@Benjamin Keator had his hosting at the CC tonight and it was absolutely incredible. What a night of gorgeous wines! All wines are guessed blind.
5 reds tonight. 5 Bonds. Insane. I’m not going to try and evaluate each one as if they were crazy different because honestly, I found it fairly easy to determine all were from the same producer. That being said, I guessed all 5 reds were from the same producer and waffled between a horizontal or vertical...I ultimately chose vertical (which was wrong). I guessed all were Napa cabs. This was my favorite red of the evening, and the one I think has the most potential. Not sure how this vineyard normally stacks up, but it has everything in spades. Dark cocoa, bay leaf, mint, underripe blackberry, black cherry core, and a graphite like finish. It’s young but so powerful!
@Benjamin Keator had his hosting at the CC tonight and it was absolutely incredible. What a night of gorgeous wines! All wines are guessed blind.
5 reds tonight. 5 Bonds. Insane. I’m not going to try and evaluate each one as if they were crazy different because honestly, I found it fairly easy to determine all were from the same producer. That being said, I guessed all 5 reds were from the same producer and waffled between a horizontal or vertical...I ultimately chose vertical (which was wrong). I guessed all were Napa cabs. This was my favorite red of the evening, and the one I think has the most potential. Not sure how this vineyard normally stacks up, but it has everything in spades. Dark cocoa, bay leaf, mint, underripe blackberry, black cherry core, and a graphite like finish. It’s young but so powerful!
The definition of “dusty tannins”....which I always think sounds like a sommelier in a porn movie. Bond never lets me down.
The definition of “dusty tannins”....which I always think sounds like a sommelier in a porn movie. Bond never lets me down.
Nov 2nd, 2018