Caldwell, Gold Cabernet Sauvignon, Coombsville

Caldwell · California › Coombsville › United States of America

Red · Cabernet Sauvignon

Critics

93 /100

Reviews

professional

Vintages

No vintages

No vintage-specific entries have been added for this wine.

Community Reviews

Reviews

93.3

Avg Score

Highest

Open in bottles for 3 hours then decanted. Just a ridiculously great nose of sinus-filling complexity -- fruits, fig, pine, a touch of menthol, some oak, the scents went on and on. I'd give it 100 points if scoring on just the nose. On the palate, this is a big wine, but so well balanced and smooth that it was a decadent treat. Dark inky color, dark fruits, round tannins, looong finish. Despite it's great depth, it was somehow lifted, …

2013 vintage

Decanted for two hours. Silky, luxurious feel across the entire palate. Dark fruit like blackberry and plum enhanced with hints of tobacco/leather.

2013 vintage

Drank at a tasting with John Caldwell. Out of magnum. Maybe the best wine of the tasting. Impressive for the vintage, great texture, long finish, and wonderfully complex.

2011 vintage

Eight hour decant. Nearly opaque ruby magenta color. Plum, boysenberry, walnut, prune, candle wax and spruce on the rich, subtly aged nose. Plush, velvety, prune-laden palate, with fine/full acidity. Full, round tannins on the medium+ finish. This is a luxurious wine that is just starting to exhibit signs of age in the nose and palate. It’s likely just beyond its peak for my palate.

2013 vintage

great nose, fruit and finish

2011 vintage

Need's more time

2011 vintage

2 hour decant. Lush and integrated . Will get better

2011 vintage

Notes of cedar. Still plenty of tannins.

2011 vintage

Six hour decant. Deep, dark, glossy, sultry ruby color. Moss, black cherry, tobacco, molasses, fresh basil, black tea leaves and the toasted barrel with hint of vanilla (signature Caldwell scent) on the wonderfully complex nose. Smooth, rich, deep palate with some nice blueberry and tobacco notes. Beautiful acidity on the front and mid-palate with mouth drying tannins on the back end. Rounded tannins on long, lingering finish.

2011 vintage

Corked.

2011 vintage

What a great wine , light on the tongue with a huge finish , decanted three hours opened up beautifully !

2013 vintage

Made of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. Beautiful dark ruby red. Nose is coated in dark berries, dark cocoa and tobacco. Heavy tannins (8/10) and super extracted with dark fruits, some plums, creme de cassis and tobacco. Full and balanced body with a long lingering finish. Drink till 2026.

2013 vintage

Walt birthday.

2011 vintage

Caramel, coffee bean, sweet cassis scents open to a ripe, plush, round, black raspberry and oak finish. This is not for oak averse tasters.

2009 vintage