Eisele Vineyard, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley

One-hour decant. Dark purple. Notes of black plum, menthol, and a little raisin. Woodsy. Possibly could have used more air, as it improved over the evening. Good but not great; but awfully pricey given the quality.

2014 vintage

Pnp half of bottle, drank over two hours. Drank remainder following day. Really opened up first hour after opening, so I'd recommend an hour or more decant. Second day was softer, but held up well. Drinking well now, definitely has many years ahead, probably decades. I think it will continue to improve with more age. Medium-full bodied Eisele Cab, with dark red color, very light browning at edge of rim, deep broad midpalate, very long saturated finish (lasts well over …

2014 vintage

Stunning. Dark fruit, fine tannins, so well balanced

2014 vintage

Refined Napa Cabernet with blackcurrant, graphite, and tobacco. Full-bodied with great balance and aging potential.

2014 vintage

Very nice, and better with a short decant. Notes of blackberry, dark plum, sweet tobacco, and cedar. Still youthful and lively.

2014 vintage

Let it decant for about an hour, drank with a Tomahawk. Had notes of menthol which I wasn’t a huge fan of. Lots of dark fruit. Smooth tannins. But of a different Cab Sauv style.

2014 vintage

3 hour decant. Dense nose of black currant, black plum, tobacco leaf, white oak, and a little dry herbal touch. Palate starts with mouth-coating, concentrated sweet black cherry pie and more black currant with lots of vanilla bean, then turns savory with dried thyme, pipe tobacco, silty gravel, and a strong medicinal note. Lush tannins with rich black fruit, milk chocolate, white pepper, anise, and sweet French oak driving the long finish. Perfectly balanced and delicious. There’s enough here to …

2014 vintage

Commanderie Event: Bordeaux vs Napa: Common Ownership (Demi, Mpls) : Very dark red color. Drank a glass single blind over an hour in a flight with a 2014 Latour. Splash double decanted and slow-O for 2.5 hours. Pencil, wood, youthful, power, intensity, dark fruits, gravelly minerals, oak, firmer tannins and structure. While there's more evolution here, it still feels more youthful. I was fooled by the complexity and structure here.

2014 vintage

One of the better Cali cabs I’ve tried. Beautiful nose of menthol and was well balanced on the palate. Quite Delicious and needed a two hour decant. Drank alongside the 87 which was interesting as it is now Latour rather than J Phelps as owner. Definitely a more elegant style of Eisele now and I like it.

2014 vintage

Oaky, dark fruit and full of cassis. I try to reserve cassis for Opus, but the 2014 is not far behind.

2014 vintage

Thirty minutes in the glass before tasting. Deep dark magenta color. Brown sugar, strawberry jelly, and bay leaf. Very dry palate, with good acidity. Full, lower intensity tannins on the longish finish. #1WineLover and I a wonderful tasting here at Seavey, although most of the wines were not my style. All the reds lean toward Bordeaux. The property is beautiful, with a working farm.

2014 vintage

This wine at ten years has gone from a dumb phase to something close to perfection. What a transformation.

2014 vintage

First of three bottles, Mothers Day, 2023 Stood up in the cellar for 2 hours Popped the cork, slow ox for 2 hours Decant for 2 hours Dark fruits, medium to full-bodied, seamless, superfine tannins. In a great spot. Thoroughly enjoyed with a prime filet. Ps call your mom, don't text!

2014 vintage

Very good. But not quite as good as we were expecting. Maybe needs a couple more years?

2014 vintage

As close to a perfect wine as I’ve had in a while. The nose is not described in bouquet but rather in emotion…it is brooding. The flavor profile is rich and unctuous. Even oily. The mouthful is thick and gritty. Deep, dark black fruit and oh did I mention this wine is perfectly balanced and has a sensational finish. Long long long.

2014 vintage

Birthday wine, paired next to a 2014 Checkerboard Kings Row. This wine is still not hitting peak. Both my fiance and I preferred the Checkerboard which had a more fruit forward approach to it, very voluptuous. This in my mind, leaned a bit more austere. Well made wine, but better in 3-5 years.

2014 vintage

Decanted for 3+hours. On the nose dark fruit, floral bouquet and you can sense the purity of the fruit. Loads of cassis, dark chocolate and mouth coating tannins. The finish goes on and on. What strikes me is the purity of the dark fruit - blackberries and black currant that creates this powerful wine which can be cellared for another decade but worthwhile opening before the 2015, 2016 vintages.

2014 vintage

Return to Napa; 3/6/2022-3/13/2022 (Wineries and various restaurants) : Again that lovely old school restrained style of wine making. Darker fruits. More heft to it than the Caravinas. There's tannin here and a bit more structure and a wine that is made to lay down for some time.

2014 vintage

As good as any wine in recent memory. Seductive, structured rich, and balanced. Loads of cassis, chocolate and some savory, black tea notes. Dry but round mouthfeel Majestic finish.

2014 vintage

Martel Tour des Vins 2021 Day 2: This is not my style of wine at all and I struggled to enjoy it, or even understand when I'd want to actually drink this. It's so big, so concentrated, so oaky... there's no subtely, no balance, no personality. The complexity and nuance is overwhelmed by all the richness. To be quite honest, if I was to give this a rating it would be sub-90, because as much as this wine might be …

2014 vintage

Ready to go with brief decant. Really well made, fantastic balance. Not a fruit bomb. Paired great with hearty, homemade chili. Will be even better in a few years.

2014 vintage

Was expecting better - rather underwhelming

2014 vintage

Expressive, fruit-forward Napa Cabernet. Big red fruit, herbs, and a bit of mocha at the end. Open for business after a short decant, but enough stuffing to go another 10-15 years. Very nice.

2014 vintage

Decanted for an hour and then we had it over 2. Frankly not much evolution during that time. This was the perfect wine for what we had, BBQ of rich in fat , 7yr ex dairy simmental with a good 60d dry age on it. Outside, coal and on a sunny 20C in covid lock down London. Any other wine would have failed, would have lost its presence and also a softer wine would have been charmless. Alas this 14.6% …

2014 vintage

'14 Napa Cab Friday Night Coravin Tasting : Some earthiness and iodine aromas with a bit of saline as it opened up. Blackcurrant and tart cherry with a short finish. Not a lot going on with this wine and with the lack of structure not sure how much it will improve. A bit disappointing. The body seemed to fade from this as time went on so maybe this would have been better earlier on right from the pour.

2014 vintage

This was my 4th of 4 and best. PnP, probably would do a quick decant if I did it again. Effusive nose, oak dominant on opening but quickly resolved. On the palate, again a fair amount of oak but balanced out with some air. Nicely balanced, medium-bodied. Nice bit of menthol on the nose and palate. Modest finish. Haven’t been a huge 2014 fan, but the restraint on this bottle made the vintage work better. Lots of life left on …

2014 vintage

Napa April 2019; 4/6/2019-4/9/2019 (Napa, CA) : Just a hard wine to drink right now, you better be patient enough to cellar for 15 years for it to come around. There’s nice fruit but it’s very tannic and acidic without much else coming through.

2014 vintage

Over the past few years, the wine has started filling out, adding more flesh and fruit. Along the wine, the has also taken on additional polish to the tannins and nuances of smoke, earth, dark red fruits and forest leaf notes. You can already enjoy this beauty now, while waiting for the bigger, more powerful 2015 and 2016 to develop.

2014 vintage

Tart on entry, light tannins. Lighter style overall. Some heat on the finish. Menthol. Flavors of red and blue fruits with a short finish.

2014 vintage

Compact currant and clay nose. Very full-bodied with chunky, tough tannins and high alcohol. Dark, toasty finish. 3.5/5

2014 vintage

Deep, bold Napa cab. Surprisingly smooth given how young it is. The fruit wasn't too overpowering and the tannins are already coming forward on the palate. I'm sure it will only get better with age; I bought 3 more bottles so I can enjoy more of it over the years.

2014 vintage

Eisele Vineyard Tasting (Gordon's) : Medium-dark red. Soft tannins. Pleasant but not all that interesting.

2014 vintage

Initially 91 with Bordeaux (on steroids) and a bit of Rhone ripe sunshine funk. Maybe 92. After an hour it still falls into a nicely extracted and thoroughly enjoyable lushious place.

2014 vintage

Für Peter Keller im NapaGrill gedacht. Leider mit Korken.

2014 vintage

2017 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/16/2017-10/25/2017 (New York City, NY) : This opaque Crimson Cabernet Sauvignon includes a 1% dollop of Petit Verdot. Effusive of dark currants, blackberries, licorice, espresso and savory herbs, it is a full-bodied, freshly acidic wine possessing mouth-coating tannins and substantial creamy oak. With a solid middle palate, seamless alcohol (14.8%) and a lengthy finish, all this needs is some cellar time to allow its components to integrate. The substrate is all there. Drink 2022-2040.

2014 vintage

Tasted at the Eisele Estate in the cellar. Since the purchase by Pinault, the production has gone down to 1,600 cases and the fruit sourced only from the vines closest to the creek, which have shallow soils with a rocky underground. The vineyard is located just off the Silverado Trail in Calistoga not too high in elevation but with utmost vineyard management to make sure the fruit stays fresh. The red berries with a créame of cassis show through the …

2014 vintage

Cedar and dark berries, hints of licorice and vanilla bean are out in front. The wine is tannic,masculine and semi strict in character. There is good fruit in the middle here, but it takes effort and time to find it. Perhaps time in the cellar will help flesh out the wine, adding more of its typical, soft, lush personality.

2014 vintage

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