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Download Fact Sheet.īlend:94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot, 1% Petit Verdotīarrel Aging:17 months 34% new French oak and 4% new American oak Region Description On the palate, the wine has a smooth entry with a rich mouthfeel and lingering aftertaste of black cherry and dusty cocoa. It seems 2004 is off to a good start and will achieved strong Laube cab rating once again.Aromas of dark cherry and berry fruit, cassis, sweet vanilla and a hint of olive. However, just yesterday Laube came out with two 97 ratings for 2004 cabs (see Tuesdays tasting highlights). As for cab, most 2004 cabs aren't yet rated. Granted 2004 was also a great pinot vintage, and it was the vintage that saw the single 98 rating. The last few years of astoundingly great California pinots and high ratings hasn't changed this.Īs for 2003, this was simply a better California pinot vintage than cab. Fact is Laube in recent years has overwhelmingly rated cabs higher than pinots. Laube has only rated one pinot at 98, but since 1997 he has rated five cabs at 98.
He has never given a pinot of any vintage a rating above 98. James Laube rated two 2002 California cabs at 99. Laube no longer can be objective when tasting California Cabs or has has embraced a Pinot palate, then perhaps it is time for someone else to cover the Cabernets from the area.<<< >Laube has become disenchanted with Napa Cabs & now loves CA Pinot>If Mr. Laube no longer can be objective when tasting California Cabs or has has embraced a Pinot palate, then perhaps it is time for someone else to cover the Cabernets from the area. If one is to be a California Wine Critic then one must be able to embrace all the varietals. I tend to think that, in general, the "old Napa" style cabs exhibit larger variation from good to bad vintages than do the "modern style" cabs.Īnyways, if you've tried it, like it and think it worth the price tag, then it shouldn't bother you in the least that others think differently, but it also shouldn't make you think that those with a different view must be out in left field or something. (3) The 70 score was for the 2003 vintage, which is widely considered a subpar vintage for Napa cab.
Some have the opposite preference - I would think it likely that a panel of French tasters would rate Stags Leap cabs higher than Laube and cult cab type wines lower than Laube. He has been tending to rate those wines lower (Montelena is another good example), while giving higher ratings to the more concentrated "new Napa" style cabs. (2) I think there is a fairly consistent pattern emerging in James' reviews regarding Napa wineries making cabernets in the "old Napa" style of the 70s and 80s: thinner, earthier, more green flavors, more delicate, whatever you want to call it. It's also possible someone may be influenced to some degree by the name and history of Stags Leap Wine Cellars and price of the wine, if that person were not tasting it blind. It's entirely possible that you just like and dislike different things in wine, and this is one you just disagree with him on. (1) James tastes wines blind and rates them as he sees them. There was unanimous concurrence among many members of this board about that wine, as well, in the thread above.
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