Rubicon Estate, Cask Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley

Color: medium plus, ruby, hint of garnet ring Nose: cherry, blackberry, oak, mint, Palate: medium body, medium length finish, medium plus tannins. This has a few more years to go! Beautiful semi fruity gem.

2003 vintage

Very enjoyable, but seems to be thinning out a bit with age, more medium bodied now. Still plenty of Rutherford fruit flavors.

2003 vintage

Cabernet bouquet leapt out the bottle. Fill just under cork. Stored in a cold cellar for seven years. Deep red. Lovely smooth tannins with black fruits dominating. Excellent balance. Bought on an off chance at a closing down sale. For various reasons have drunk relatively few Californian wines and looking at reviews of 2003 vintage not expecting much. Quite wrong! Time in hand but no reason to keep.

2003 vintage

Opened for 1 hour from a magnum Definitely peaking or even on slight decline. Acid is very well integrated into the wine and the tannins are round and soft. Most of the fruit is gone, but you do have some juicy overripe blueberries still there. Almost a bubble gum type flavor along with minerality, iodine, sea water. Really enjoyable wine. Good mouth feel. Drink them if you have them.

2003 vintage

One of the best in 2020, wonderful balance of fruit acid and tannin's. Drinking very well.

2003 vintage

This wine has a wonderful balance of fruit, acid and tannin's. In a great place right now.

2003 vintage

One of the best in 2020, wonderful balance of fruit acid and tannin's. In a great place right now.

2003 vintage

One of my favorite cabs, almost out and don’t produce this anymore Great bold juicy cab

2004 vintage

The palate features dark fruits, with mostly earthy flavors of tobacco, eucalyptus, and forest floor. There is a medium body and lively acidity which form the backbone of a mature, balanced wine.

2004 vintage

Strong dark chocolate (70% cocoa or more) with a ton of black cherry, deep earthy flavors of black mushroom, eucalyptus / mint, and moderate oak. And it has a very long finish (30 - 40 sec), which amazed me. I have enjoyed this exact wine (2004 Cask Cabernet) many times from Magnum, but this 750ml was much better and more evolved than anything else that came before. At peak maturity right now and surprisingly delicious. This Napa Cab is made …

2004 vintage

Fruit still present nice and smooth tannins which are mellowed but still in background. Nice cab. Still in good shape. Excellent bottle of nice aged cali cab

2003 vintage

Still has an abundance of life left in it

2004 vintage

Drank with Todd Levi. Still has some staying power. Mocha, cherries and with mellowed tannins.

2004 vintage

Clear deep purple color. Clean nose of medium intensity with aromas of cooked blackberry, cooked plums wet stone, vanilla, earth and leather. Wine is fully developed. On the palate it is dry with medium plus acidity, medium tannins, medium alcohol, full body, medium plus flavor intensity of dried blackberries, dried cherry, leather, chocolate. Finish is medium. Very good wine, drink now, will not benefit from further aging.

2003 vintage

Great cabernet! Now down to my last bottle. It was a perfect bottle for early in 2019.

2003 vintage

Extremely well balanced wine with a touch of fruit. still has some time left. will wait a fewe years prior to having some more

2004 vintage

This is a great Cabernet. I am sad to have only 2 bottles left from the case I purchased in 2007.

2003 vintage

Very dark red color. PNP, split bottle over 2.5hrs. Wow, I'd been waiting for a good reason to open my last bottle of this. I figured hunting weekend with my dad was just the time. The 03 has always been one of my favorite vintages over the last 15 years. Wow, this was a gorgeous bottle. Won't fool anyone, this is California, but at 14 years, this still humming along and showing elegance and balance. The fruit jumps, bright and …

2003 vintage

Drinking beautifully right now, lots of dark and red fruits on the nose with some hints of mocha. On the palate the wine has depth and structure to give you something to think about with every sip but it was soft and smooth. I did not decant this so there was significant sediment at the bottom. This is ready to go from the get go, the wine held up over 3 hours. I don't recommend putting this in a decanter, …

2004 vintage

Fruit forward for something that's been laying down for thirteen years. Smooth and well balanced. Continues to reinforce to me that any decent wine needs a good ten years after bottling.

2003 vintage

This wine was enjoyable but may have lost some of its character. Cask never lacks for tannic structure and this was no different. Still somewhat grippy. it has developed some nice secondary flavors. Probably better 2 years ago, with the exception of the tannins.

2003 vintage

Drank with Robin and Mitch and Kelli Jo Graves at 1912

2003 vintage

Good, extremely mellow and mature. Drink 'em if you got 'em. Don't sit on these any longer.

2004 vintage

Cherries and plums with an earth and cedar finish

2004 vintage

Friday Afternoon; 1/22/2016-1/23/2016 (Rocknroller's (Kevin & Vicki's Place)) : Very dark red/purple color. Decanted for 2 hours; drank 2 glasses over 3 hours. Its been almost 3 years since I had this last. This bottle was back to where the others had been and probably near peak now, but showing no signs of slippage. Really well integrated, this has probably been my favorite vintage of Cask over the last 10 years, though I have not tried the most recent ones. …

2003 vintage

Nice fruit but a bit simple. Stone fruit and currants with a bit of cedar and leather on the finish.

2004 vintage

Blueberry, blackberry, lavender and cedar. Lovely layers and a smooth, satisfying finish. This 2003 is holding up nicely. Paired well with some seared ahi and an arugula salad.

2003 vintage

in really good shape with earth and dark fruit well integrated doubt this will be getting any better with any more cellar time

2004 vintage

Peaking now! Decanted an hour and was perfect with/without food. Smooth with med long finish. Full bodied and well balanced.

2003 vintage

cork crumbled but I was able to extract it all without corrupting the wine. Great flavor, aging has really mellowed the tannins. Still a bit tart but a nice strong cab with a smooth finish

2004 vintage

Gave to Ben

2003 vintage

Ben took to dinner

2003 vintage

After 12 years cork was dry and fell apart at time of removal, strained and decanted for two hours, wine was excellent, dark color, plenty of tannins it had lost some of its boque, if you have some it's time to consume

2003 vintage

Great Cabernet! Very smooth.

2003 vintage

This wine is drinking really well now. Didn't decant, but probably should have, as it opened up really nice over the course of a couple of hours.

2003 vintage

Such a beautiful wine: well integrated oak and fine tannins. Lovely.

2004 vintage

Dark berries and a little oak on the nose. Secondary notes not showing much as of today. Good concentration and surprisingly nice acidigy. Tannins are fine but still prominent. Tannins starting to integrate. A touch of bitter which I found pleasing, but length and complexity are not very high. The wine is unapologetically Napa.

2003 vintage

Very dark red color. PNP, drank 2+ glasses over 3 hours. Lovely nose with creme de cassis, blackberry, fruit of the forest pie, chocolate, dust, dry earth,and mineral. The palate is full bodied, layered, velvety texture, elegant, creme de cassis, blackberry, dark cherry, fresh ground spices, subtle earth, subtle oak and very round tannins with a long finish. This is in a great place now and should continue to drink well for at least 3-5 years. 93+ to 94pts.

2004 vintage

Cork crumbled, but did not affect the wine one bit. Lovely nose with plenty of berry tones. Full and lovely on the palette with a great balance and faint tannins. Still has a little time to go, but driniking beautifully right now. The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle.

2004 vintage

Sweet flowered cherry-blackberry nose; well integrated and full bodied; good composition and texture; nicely developed; sweet lingering blackberry finish.

2003 vintage

It has been a while since I last opened one of these, and it has continued to get better. A good amount of fruit still there but other flavors and aromas have started to come out as well. This was very good as a pop and pour with some aeration but was even better the next day.

2004 vintage

The bottle requires at least one hour of decanting to open up, but open up it does. Very beautiful wine with hints of blackberry, pencil lead and eucalyptus. Still has some nice fruit but tending towards the secondary flavors. Got better over the night and I thought it was stunning.

2004 vintage

PnP and let breathe incrementally 45 minutes to 5 hours. Elegant, finessed and understated with fruit seemingly receding and tertiary flavors emerging. Bright red berries and blackberry on the nose, but less noticeable on palate with some leather blended in. Mid-bodied with dry fine grained tannins, moderate acidity and medium finish. Decent, but was expecting more. May have opened this a bit past its prime.

2004 vintage

Absolutely stunning after being decanted for an hour. Opened up beautifully!

2004 vintage

Wow!!!!! This wine is drinking pretty close to perfect. The tannins are soft. I decanted this wine for about 30 minutes and bam - lets of red fruit.

2004 vintage

Getting better with time. It didn't take long for it to open up. Nice vibrant red fruit, mocha, creme de casis, and dried herbs. Really enjoy where this is at right now, so don't really want to gamble on where this might go from here so I'm gonna drink up.

2004 vintage

- Ruby color with medium forming legs. It's unbalanced and has flavours of cherry, strawberry and cloves with a medium body. Narrow texture with a medium finish.

2004 vintage

drinking well with good fruit

2004 vintage

If the aroma of this wine is "Rutherford Dust", I need some more dust in my life. Give it some time to open up, and you'll be rewarded with a glass full of dirt... in a good way, of course. Fruit is definitely muted at this point (a touch of cherry), but the tannins are still around and there is some decent acidity. Certainly better with food. QPR eh. 90-92.

2004 vintage

Beautiful aromas of black cherry, black tea, and a little toasted vanilla. Silky soft on the medium body with cherry, cassis, and creamy vanilla. Drink now as the acidity is almost absent. Soft tannins

2004 vintage

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