95 Wine Reviews Found

  • Varietal: Cabernet Blend
98 Points

Continuum Cabernet Blend Novicium 2022

Showing superb balance of ripe red fruit plus a fresh interplay of minerals including sage, thyme, and tarragon delight from the beginning. The alluring and expressive nose leads with baked strawberries, lavender, rose petals, and graphite. The palate is luxuriously rich, layering cherry-chocolate cake, baker’s cocoa, and flashy black and blue fruit over a firm... Read Full Review
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Eisele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Altagracia 2021

Year in year out this is one of Napa’s most acclaimed over-achievers, Altagracia 2021 edition is a particular blockbuster featuring bold + fresh dark fruit and an oh-so-creamy texture. This new Altagracia displays concentrated red and black fruit flavors, truffle, and savory spices. Silky tannins give way to notes of fennel, graphite, espresso, dark chocolate... Read Full Review
98 Points

Eisele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Altagracia 2022

Year in year out this is one of Napa’s most acclaimed over-achievers, Altagracia 2022 offers perfection for the price as it delivers similar thrills to many iconic Cabernet that require double the price. Initial aroma of espresso and rich leather lead to another blockbuster featuring bold + fresh dark fruit and an oh-so-creamy texture. This... Read Full Review
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Kenzo Cabernet Blend Napa Rindo 2017

An early contender for Cabernet of the vintage in this price category, the texture is ULTRA silky smooth preparing your pallate for thrills to come. This dazzling new releases launches forth with a flashy bouquet that includes lavender, sultry dark fruit notes and fresh oak from the French barrels. Hints of baking spices and Toblerone... Read Full Review
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Kenzo Cabernet Blend Napa Rindo 2021

Simply stated, this is a big WOW wine! Bursting with intense dark fruit and boasting a divinely silky texture, it offers a level of freshness and finesse that rivals Napa’s top-tier icons. Like recent standout vintages, this magnificent effort reveals a core of cassis, blackberry, graphite, and espresso bean, all beautifully supported by a subtle... Read Full Review
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Realm Cellars Cabernet Blend The Bard 2022

A hedonistic, collector-grade Napa blend that’s both sumptuous and refined. The bouquet delivers black cherry, plum, espresso, cocoa, anise, florals, and sweet tobacco. On the palate, it is velvety and deeply delicious; plush blackberry and dark-chocolate richness, plus impeccably balanced, finishing long with a polished graham-cracker/s’more nuance. Decant prior to 2028 and enjoy through 2032+. Read Full Review
98 Points

Staglin Cabernet Sauvignon Estate 2015

The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate has the ripe, expansive, sexy style of the vintage front and center. Loads of crème de cassis, blueberries, crushed violets, and spice all soar from this beauty, which is powerful and rich, yet perfectly balanced. At the same quality level as the 2013, it’s nevertheless in a much more approachable,... Read Full Review
99+ Points

Continuum Cabernet Blend 2022

This is the flashiest vintage of Continuum to date, providing captivating thrills from the alluring bouquet (lilies) to the memorable finish that lasts a full minute. Wow! We were awed by the intense dark fruit, notes of savory spices, and silky texture plus flawless balance which we’ve learned is Tim M’s trademark. The enchanting finish... Read Full Review
99+ Points

Joseph Phelps Insignia 2022

We’ve judged the last twenty vintages of Insignia, and the new 2022 is a strong contender for the most immediately irresistible! Aromas of blackberry, dark chocolate, mint, sweet tobacco, and violets captivate from the start. The full-bodied palate is framed by silky, polished tannins, unfolding into flashy layers of fig, blueberry, espresso bean, and a... Read Full Review
99 Points

Continuum Cabernet Blend 2016

An absolutely staggering beauty, the supremely satisfying 2016 Continuum launches forth with copious notes of blueberries, cassis, baking spices, espresso bean and graphite. This modern day classic offers a multidimensional thrill ride now (decanting recommended prior to 2021) and should offer a majestic journey over the next 10 – 15 years. Highly Recommended! Read Full Review