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Each of the Nickel and Nickel Cabernets is exceptional, the one listed above is one of my favorites: Start drinking Rock Cairn now and over the next few years.
It is aged for 17 months in approximately 50% new and 50% one-year-old French oak barrels. Rock Cairn is complex and powerful, with myriad layers of flavors [...]
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Each and every one of the Nickel and Nickel Cabernets is exceptional, but the one listed above is one of my favorites; drink it now and over the next several years (although at 10 years, it still should be wonderful),
It is aged for 17 months in approximately 50% new and 50% one-year-old French oak barrels. [...]
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Nickel & Nickel Cabernet Sauvignon Martin Stelling Vineyard Oakville Napa Valley 2005 – From two acres of the very best vineyard in the entire Nickel and Nickel lineup (as well as being the primary vineyard for Far Niente Cabernet Sauvignon), this wine was made under ideal weather conditions. A very showy wine, this vintage displays [...]
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Revana Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2005 – Still the best value from heralded winemaker Heidi Barrett, whose early Screaming Eagle Cabs are bringing $3,000+ a bottle. Owned by esteemed Houston Cardiologist Dr. Medaiah Revana, this is his best offering yet. Once again, not a blockbuster, but a wine with seductive flavors. A sensuous experience. Beef [...]
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Far Niente Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2005 – This winery seems to be making better and better reds. The Chardonnay has always been great. Gil Nickel set out to make a Chateau Latour in Napa, and it took a while, but since around the 1990 vintage, it has just gotten better and better. Dense [...]
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Kuleto Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2004 – Great vintage in Napa. A wine of complexity and hillside intensity. Already top notch, the understated fruit should blossom into greatness with another year of bottle age (even though winemaker Dave Lattin has already held it for an extra year in the bottle prior to release in [...]
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Chappellet Signature Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2005 – A winery, that for me, has improved with the advent of the second generation (Carissa, Cyril and Jon-Mark Chappallet). Intense, ripe fruit from Chappellet’s renown Pritchard Hill Vineyard. Steak or rack of lamb. $45
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