Vintage Selection Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

We assumed it had gone bad and we were right. But still fun to drink from my birth year.

Big dog’s birth year! Celebrating Rimple’s birthday. Love that guy. Btw this wine has plenty of time left

Wow...balance and finesse of still primary fruit, racy acid and melted tannins.

Wine is definitely showing it’s age but I have certainly tasted wines with less life and fruit.

Anyone who says California wines don’t Age has never tasted anything like this. It was incredibly fresh and youthful. The color was bright and clear the nose was floral and inviting. The fruit was still alive and only slightly muted. Tannins were velvety smooth.

Plenty of life left and still quite fresh maintaining some if it’s fruit. Dried red currants, saddle leather, soy, dried herbs, cedar and a long silky finish. Terrific bottle.

Chosen for dinner by John Brecher and Dorothy Gaiter in honor Open That Bottle Night. Very beautiful for about 10 minutes before it began to fade. Dipped whiling talking wine politics and feminism with Karen MacNeil the other fellows at The Professional Wine Writers Symposium. What an honor to get to share in this with peers!

Tasted blind. Tawny color, translucent with clear rims. Old wine nose with notes of cola, dark berries, black cherry and a little mint. Starts dry in the mouth with wispy fruit, but with air time, the fruit comes on stronger and you get that old Cal Cab power. Guessed old Cal Cab, but was off a decade on the vintage. With a `65 birth year I get few chances to have something decent from anything grown that year. Very nice.

Spice, cedar, more CA like relative to the elegant 1966

Past peak but really yummy. Baked fruits, tobacco, green pepper.