Inglenook
Rubicon Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon Blend
Rutherford, Napa Valley, California, USA
It's time for my #FridayCabernetfix.
Deep ruby in color with a reddish rim.
Fruity nose with black fruits, chocolates, cedar, licorice, light vanilla, tobacco and peppercorn.
Full-bodied with medium acidity and long legs.
Dry and fruit forward on the palate with black currants, cooked plums, cedar, peppercorn, earth, herbs, chocolates, tobacco leaf and black tea.
Long finish with fine grained tannins and cherries.
This is a delicious Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. Elegant and rich. Complex and entertaining. Fruit forward and easy drinking.
This 13 year old Cabernet Sauvignon from the great 2012 vintage, is drinking beautifully now, and will continue to age nicely in the next 10 years.
A good quality wine, with nice complexity and mouthfeel. Well balanced and elegant.
I've enjoyed many different vintages of this wine over the years, from older to younger, and it never fails to deliver.
Good by itself as a sipping wine, and will also pair nicely with a big piece of steak.
A blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Petit Verdot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Merlot. Aged in ( 75% new) French Oak barrels.
14.5% alcohol by volume.
93 points.
$300.
It's time for my #FridayCabernetfix.
Deep ruby in color with a reddish rim.
Fruity nose with black fruits, chocolates, cedar, licorice, light vanilla, tobacco and peppercorn.
Full-bodied with medium acidity and long legs.
Dry and fruit forward on the palate with black currants, cooked plums, cedar, peppercorn, earth, herbs, chocolates, tobacco leaf and black tea.
Long finish with fine grained tannins and cherries.
This is a delicious Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. Elegant and rich. Complex and entertaining. Fruit forward and easy drinking.
This 13 year old Cabernet Sauvignon from the great 2012 vintage, is drinking beautifully now, and will continue to age nicely in the next 10 years.
A good quality wine, with nice complexity and mouthfeel. Well balanced and elegant.
I've enjoyed many different vintages of this wine over the years, from older to younger, and it never fails to deliver.
Good by itself as a sipping wine, and will also pair nicely with a big piece of steak.
A blend of 86% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Petit Verdot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 1% Merlot. Aged in ( 75% new) French Oak barrels.
14.5% alcohol by volume.
93 points.
$300.
The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Rubicon is dark, supple and super-expressive. It shows higher ripeness and a stronger oak imprint than the Cabernet Sauvignon. Even so, it has aged very well. Dark plum, espresso, licorice, sweet spice and a kiss of toasted French oak lend notable complexity throughout. In this tasting, ripeness and new oak feel accented, certainly more so than when this wine was younger. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, May 2024)
The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Rubicon is dark, supple and super-expressive. It shows higher ripeness and a stronger oak imprint than the Cabernet Sauvignon. Even so, it has aged very well. Dark plum, espresso, licorice, sweet spice and a kiss of toasted French oak lend notable complexity throughout. In this tasting, ripeness and new oak feel accented, certainly more so than when this wine was younger. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, May 2024)
Flight #1 of our 1997 Retrospective. Presented single-blind; no formal notes. On the nose, this shared similar characteristics to wine #3. The most striking of which was a powerful note of finely ground cumin on the nose. Fruit is mostly desiccated at this point; the structure keeping everything together, but just. I called this to be “Rubicon”. While clearly in the sunset of its life, this showed slightly less energy than the Dalla Valle but no less charm. Drink now.
Flight #1 of our 1997 Retrospective. Presented single-blind; no formal notes. On the nose, this shared similar characteristics to wine #3. The most striking of which was a powerful note of finely ground cumin on the nose. Fruit is mostly desiccated at this point; the structure keeping everything together, but just. I called this to be “Rubicon”. While clearly in the sunset of its life, this showed slightly less energy than the Dalla Valle but no less charm. Drink now.
Drank 10/24/23.
Nice black and purple fruit on the nose with a bit of earth and funk that mostly blows off after 30 min. Similar palate with dusty tannins. This was better a few years ago, but it is still quite good. Drink now.
4/21/8/4/4 + 50 = 91 pts.
Drank 10/24/23.
Nice black and purple fruit on the nose with a bit of earth and funk that mostly blows off after 30 min. Similar palate with dusty tannins. This was better a few years ago, but it is still quite good. Drink now.
4/21/8/4/4 + 50 = 91 pts.
Old Napa Cab with suadero tacos? Yes. Oh yes.
Old Napa Cab with suadero tacos? Yes. Oh yes.
Mar 11th, 2021
Awesome, very little color development and fruit and acidity still intact. Reminded me of a good Margaux...
Awesome, very little color development and fruit and acidity still intact. Reminded me of a good Margaux...
Nov 27th, 2020Really young, it needs way more time in the bottle. It has really great bones, it just needs some time to soften up the tannins, great fruit.
Really young, it needs way more time in the bottle. It has really great bones, it just needs some time to soften up the tannins, great fruit.
Nov 3rd, 2020
Les Deux Triomphes. Lovely lean fruit. Really focussed and pretty with violets and gnarly savory stuff. Excellent
Les Deux Triomphes. Lovely lean fruit. Really focussed and pretty with violets and gnarly savory stuff. Excellent
Oct 3rd, 2019Napaulée at Press Restaurant. Very nice
Napaulée at Press Restaurant. Very nice
Oct 27th, 2018
Birth year stunner. An amazing example of Classic Cali Cabernet: moss, eucalyptus, mint, dried blueberry.
Birth year stunner. An amazing example of Classic Cali Cabernet: moss, eucalyptus, mint, dried blueberry.
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