Critics Average score from professional wine critics and publications.
93
/100
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23
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2012
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93/100
Cabernet Sauvignon
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Taster #5919
· Nov 15, 2025
91/100
Without question it’s a well made wine but at this stage lacks any real excitement. Nose has blackberries, black cherry, blueberries, a touch of violet and baking spices. On the palate the same profile as the nose. Good density, nice acids and decent tannins. So all present and correct, yet it lacks any real individuality or excitement. And when you’re paying top dollar for Napa wine, solid and correct isn’t enough. To be fair the last glass after a seven …
2012 vintage
Taster #7872
· Feb 23, 2025
93/100
Muted. Leather, graphite, black berries. Dark cherry Little tartness .
2012 vintage
Taster #8811
· Sep 15, 2024
95/100
Decanted for 30 minutes. Aromas of iron, leather, blackberry and black cherry. Flavors of blackberry, currant, black cherry, iron and earth. Ends with a 35-40 second finish with blackberry and currant notes. Heard this was more fruit forward Napa but seems more in line with Dominus.
2012 vintage
Taster #8434
· Jul 9, 2024
93/100
Decanted for 2+ hours. It's now been ~3 years since my last bottle. The wine has developed well. With enough air, the wine is ready to drink, but it still has many more years ahead of it. 93 pts. at the moment.
2012 vintage
Taster #1043
· Jun 17, 2023
93/100
Drinking well and plenty of life left.
2012 vintage
Taster #9151
· Jan 28, 2023
93/100
Inaugural vintage I believe. Well kept and showing muchike a Dominus. I might have guessed 11 as it was a little to the green side, but well integrated and built for further aging.
2012 vintage
Taster #9453
· Sep 17, 2021
92/100
Still a bit tight. Needs some more time.
2012 vintage
Taster #8434
· Sep 16, 2021
93/100
Decanted 2 hours. This bottle was better than my last one. Better balance, less heat than the last one. Still has a long life ahead. 93 pts. at the moment.
2012 vintage
Taster #9564
· Jun 30, 2021
94/100
Very elegant, understated and nuanced. Medium body. Very bordeaux.
2012 vintage
Taster #0935
· Apr 3, 2021
95/100
Finishing up the last half of the bottle left over from yesterday’s tasting. It’s just so much more open and inviting, without having changed too much in terms of aromatics or flavors. The floral notes in the bouquet are a bit more pronounced with dominant violet and lavender qualities, joining licorice, cassis and kirsch. A touch softer on the palate. Cassis, spice and black fruit with a long finish. Nearly seamless texture. This falls squarely in my wheelhouse. 95-96 for …
2012 vintage
Taster #0935
· Apr 2, 2021
94/100
Friday Night Uptown Brown Bagger (R&D's) : Blind. Deep color. Aromas of red currant, red plums, florals, vanilla and something a little green as well. Full-bodied and balanced. Flavors of red and black fruit mingle on the palate. Finishes with good length. With more time in the glass notes of black cherry and green tobacco emerge. Elegant. My favorite in this flight. The hosts had guessed that this was their Dominus, and I thought Dominus as well, but part of …
2012 vintage
Taster #0210
· Mar 10, 2021
94/100
Purple with some clearing at the rim. Bouquet of cassis, kirsch, stony minerality, and a floral note. On the palate, there is a core of fruit but it is by no means overpowering. Fine tannins and good acidity give the wine structure. Very restrained, balanced, and classical in style. Certainly not a Napa fruit bomb.
2012 vintage
Taster #2426
· Jul 5, 2020
93/100
Openeded yesterday and decanted for over one hour. The wine is very tied, mute, tannic and acidity. We put it back in the bottle and vacuumed it. 80 pts yesterday. Now after 24 hours the wine is amazingly smooth, no harsh edges, the acidity and tannic was gone and delicate notes of fruits and earth provide a pleasant mouthfeel. 93+ I think the best days of this wine are still ahead, hold 2-3 more years.
2012 vintage
Taster #9892
· May 23, 2020
90/100
Dark holiday red. Smooth, berry, cassis, spice, firm tannins on the finish—and I want to drink this at the holidays. I probably opened it too early. While it's delicious, I think I've had better cabernets at it's price point.
2012 vintage
Taster #7234
· Mar 10, 2020
Well made wine with all the proper notes. The wine lacked the complexity that a wine of this price should have. I would buy this at $100 all day, but not at close to $200
2012 vintage
Taster #8434
· Feb 11, 2020
93/100
Decanted 3 hours. Improved with air. I guess 3 hours in the decanter were perfect right now. Still pretty young. Slightly touch of heat at the finish. 92-93 pts at the moment.
2012 vintage
Taster #1998
· Jun 16, 2019
93/100
Nice bottle but wanted so much more from a Christian Moueix offering where the vineyard is right next to Vine Hill Ranch. Had a nice elegance, restraint, and classic style to it but even after a 2 hour decant, just wasn't singing. It was good but not great.
2012 vintage
Taster #6059
· Apr 11, 2018
91/100
SLDS April 2018 : Blind. Blackcurrant pastille, cherry and vanilla with some tobacco as well. Bold fruit on the palate, this is punchy and dark, and yet the structure holds up to it very well. I think there is good quality here, although it didn't strike me as being typically Cabernet in style.
2012 vintage
Taster #8434
· Apr 8, 2018
92/100
Decanted 2+ hours. This is still young as expected. A very good bottle. Not terribly complex. At the moment more friut than complexity. But i guess it might be better with more age. 92+ pts at the moment.
2012 vintage
Taster #8362
· Mar 23, 2018
94/100
This wine is delicious. Wanting a break from the more modern styled wines I have been drinking of late, and wanting something with a bit more age than the 15's that I've been enjoying, I turned to this beauty from the man, the myth, Christian Moueix. The first vintage released from these vines (located next to Vine Hill Ranch and Missouri Hopper), and boy is this in a nice place right now. Decanted for two hours and it needed a …
2012 vintage
Taster #3393
· Dec 25, 2017
94/100
This is a very soft, plush and medium bodied Cabernet. The nose is classic cassis and vanilla. The red fruit on this wine is very smooth and spicy. This is a good effort. I’ll sit on my next bottle for a few years.....
2012 vintage
Taster #9032
· Mar 28, 2017
93/100
A savory yet plush Cabernet Sauvignon that delivers concentrated fruit and ample structure - but makes me wonder if it's worth the price of admission. Dark purple in color, medium in body, nose of black cherry, tobacco, and pencil shavings. Tastes of blackberry, leather, baking spices, and cedar, with a grippy and tannic finish. Blend of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon and then other Bordeaux varietals. 14.5% alcohol. I had this next to a 2013 Napanook, which lacked the depth and creaminess …
2012 vintage
Taster #0264
· Feb 12, 2017
94/100
Big and Bold. Opulent. Still very young and will mature with age.
2012 vintage
Taster #4831
· Feb 9, 2017
89/100
I didn't want to go against consensus here was really looking forward to this but I dont get the hype this was average didn't open up after 3 hour decant - no real shape nor substance no wow factor yes it's young and Plummy let's see again in what 10 years to see if upward revise score? In the meantime for this price point expected much better there's much more better alternatives than this and much cheaper. Far too much …
2012 vintage
Taster #9662
· Jan 16, 2017
Nose is dominated by red berried fruit aromas, a whiff of alcohol, greeness coming through as well (though not in a bad way); very silky and smooth, very good mouth-feel. Lovely fruit here, impressive concentration. This is delicious with classy oak and fine tannins. Impressive for 4 year old vines.
2012 vintage