Nickel & Nickel, C.C. Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, Rutherford

Nickel & Nickel · California › Rutherford › United States of America

Red · Cabernet Sauvignon
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LWIN 1342815
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91 /100
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25
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Taster #5416 · Oct 20, 2025
92/100
Very good with oak, vanilla, spices, cassis, baking chocolate, leather and cedar chips. Medium plus finish. Powerful effort.
2005 vintage
Taster #0211 · Jul 6, 2023
91/100
Decanted 45 minutes and through the remainder of the evening. Paired with Tomahawk and strip loin steaks. Nose were somewhat muted for the better part of the evening as I think it took a while for it to open up to ultimately yield blackberry, vanilla spice, and some charred wood. The palate is dry with medium acidity and medium fine grained tannins not overly ripe and working their way into the wine. Finish was medium plus. ? Drink now and …
2016 vintage
Taster #5969 · Apr 28, 2023
93/100
Pretty garnet color. Blueberries and raspberry on the nose. Certainly shows Rutherford minerality. A little of that Rutherford “dust.” This wine can still use more time to develop and smooth out. Enjoyable now, but has potential to be even better.
2016 vintage
Taster #7129 · Jan 2, 2023
71/100
Over aged
2005 vintage
Taster #6484 · Nov 25, 2021
91/100
did well with our dinner. no tannins smooth finish
2016 vintage
Taster #1119 · Sep 21, 2021
95/100
Was worried i might have waited too long but the beautiful fruit was still there along with secondary notes of oak, leathef, spicebox and still enough acidity to lift it into a long finish
2005 vintage
Taster #4735 · May 9, 2021
92/100
From a group of N&N bottles that we didn’t originally store well the first couple years until cellaring. Have been holding off drinking these expecting they were turned. Could not be farther from the truth for this bottle. Deep ruby purple color with a just hint of brick. Not too much sediment considering it’s age. Slow legs. Licorice, tar and blackberry nose. Almost effervescent with a nice acidity. Licorice and black fruit palate. Long finish with a suede texture.
2005 vintage
Taster #4173 · Aug 11, 2020
92/100
Dark red fruit with great body and tannins.
2016 vintage
Taster #9708 · Jul 25, 2020
95/100
7-25-20. Echo Palm Beach. Loved it. Jammy East to drink. Laura really liked.
2016 vintage
Taster #9708 · Aug 14, 2019
94/100
8-14-19. Ulu. Hawai’i! Loved it!
2016 vintage
Taster #5641 · Aug 28, 2018
90/100
Big but smooth
2005 vintage
Taster #5641 · Aug 5, 2018
Yum
2005 vintage
Taster #1960 · Aug 3, 2018
Flawed bottle
2005 vintage
Taster #0935 · May 14, 2017
Second Sunday Group: 2014 Volnay (Jeff's (hosted by Peter)) : Perfumed- almost floral- along with grapey dark fruit and brown sugar notes. Medium tannins with flavors of dark fruit and plum. Enjoyable with dinner.
2005 vintage
Taster #4343 · Jan 25, 2014
92/100
See last week's notes.
2005 vintage
Taster #4343 · Jan 17, 2014
92/100
Bright red fruit mingled with dark fruits, hint of oak and vanilla. Reasonable acidity, nice finish. This has to be near it's peak. Glad l have an unsealed OWC in the cellar!
2005 vintage
Taster #4343 · Sep 21, 2013
92/100
Beautiful light garnet color, tart fruit nose, light bodied, and very balanced. surprisingly smooth and long finish! Drinking excellent now.
2005 vintage
Taster #7622 · Sep 3, 2013
94/100
Anniversary dinner. Worth every sip.
2005 vintage
Taster #8888 · Feb 15, 2012
88/100
Nice fruits and tannins. Well balances and enjoyable.
2005 vintage
Taster #0212 · Dec 2, 2011
91/100
Nice finish, some oak.
2005 vintage
Taster #7260 · Oct 19, 2010
91/100
Great wine. Still great fruit.
2005 vintage
Taster #4491 · Aug 19, 2010
91/100
Awesome cabernet as all Nickel and Nickel are. Great fruit, lasting finish. BUY!!
2005 vintage
Taster #0965 · Jun 4, 2010
90/100
Decanted 2+ hours. Bright red fruit at first followed by vanilla and oak and finishing with darker fruit and smooth tannins. All this under a blanket of bright acidity, which adds length to the finish. May gain more elegance with time and will probably show well with rich food.
2005 vintage
Taster #8710 · Nov 28, 2009
90/100
A good cab. Usual cab fruit flavors. Balanced. Well integrated tannins. Medium finish. Not great QPR at close $90 a bottle.
2005 vintage
Taster #6029 · Oct 3, 2009
90/100
Cabernet Finale (Wine Exchange. Orange, CA) : Drank as part of a Cab Sauv tasting and it had been decanted for several hours. Pencil and raspberry on the nose. Lots of acidity with medium tannins. Needs some time to integrate, but should be a good one in a couple of years.
2005 vintage
Taster #5854 · Jul 22, 2009
Obvious CA cab nose with red currant, plum and vanilla nose with just a touch of earth. Dusty red fruits on the palate with a decent finish. Very soft on the palate with virtually no tannin.
2005 vintage
Taster #1224 · May 30, 2009
89/100
"Anniversary" Weekend at Rob & Lisa's; 5/29/2009-6/1/2009 (Scott's Valley, CA) : Popped and poured. The nose showed ripe, and fresh red fruits, anise, and a green herbasciousness. The taste was full of blueberries and plums with some red currant. Nice balance of fruit with the chewy, sweet tannins into the very ripe, round fruits on the finish. I think this is a very well made and approachable Cabernet, however there is nothing here that makes me want to run out …
2005 vintage
Taster #4858 · May 30, 2009
87/100
Very dark color and showing lots of that nice ripe California Cabernet fruit on the nose. Smooth and easy to enjoy but lacking a bit when it comes to the finish. I would have liked to have seen a little more structure and tannin to clean things up on the end. Overall very nice and an easy crowd pleaser but for the price, you can do better.
2005 vintage
Taster #7780 · Mar 17, 2009
90/100
Family Wine Makers: lead pencil, tab, cedar, rich big cassis mth. touch swt, lower a’s, touch flabby.
2005 vintage