Yonah Mountain Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Katherine's

This was a wonderful wine. There is just something special about an aged wine. When I first opened the wine was a little tight, but after decanting for 4 hours it was outstanding. Full of fruit and just the right amount of acid, it paired perfect with the filets on the BGE. Luv in life in sunny Florida... Cheers !!!

1997 vintage

At Common on Broughton

2009 vintage

Pride reserves are always good. Really good fruit but the 2009 was a little hot which was throwing it off balance a little for me. Still a good effort here.

2009 vintage

Drinking excellent.

2009 vintage

Had the most random craving for a wine I used to like a decade ago: the Pride Reserve Cabernet! Super telling modern Napa nose of boysenberries, blackberries, plums, red licorice, leather, vanilla, spices, and slate. Well crafted and aromatic, but unfortunately way too sweet and hot on the palate for my liking nowadays. As the Napa folks call it: hedonistic.

2009 vintage

PnP, no decant needed. Beautiful nose with black fruit, earth, cassis, anise , leather and oak. Full bodied, well balanced. Layers of flavor with black berry, earth, leather, cassis, cedar, spice. Long smooth finish with silky smooth tannins. Showing really well now.

2009 vintage

Bottle was amazing. Balanced. Well preserved.

2009 vintage

super expressive. I thought this might have been an 08 Verite cab blind. It's powerful, candied, soft, but has plenty of weight and substance without feeling confected. Big in the classic mountain fruit sense.

2009 vintage

Awesome. Decanted 1 hour+, still has much life yet but drinking wonderfully now

2009 vintage

Still has many years left, wish I waited. Restrained compared to the ‘05 we had a few months ago. Going to sit on our remaining bottle.

2009 vintage

Outstanding in every way. Still has some youthful energy though fully mature. If that makes any sense. Loved it.

1997 vintage

Concentrated with rich black fruit. Last review complained that it lacked necessary acid balance, but this one seems a bit more balanced. This wine still has years left in it; not fading at all.

2009 vintage

This is a big, creamy, berry infused, oaky mouthful. Still youthful but maturing. Bursting with juice. Full mouthfeel but not heavy. Oh so smooth. Really impressive for its style. Happy to drink before we head off to Napa. But I can not drink this style often. (93)

2009 vintage

Pop and pour. Firm and bright, this still has evolution in store although delicious now. A powerful crowd pleaser with great structure and purity.

2009 vintage

2 hour decant…OMG..excellent

2009 vintage

Decanted 2 hours and drank with a strip steak Absolutely great

2009 vintage

Great weekend with the Varners! Dinner at their house the night after Tum Tum (Birmingham, Alabama) : With the Varners in Birmingham, wonderful dinner at their home. Generous contributions from their cellar. This was a treat to open. Medium garnet, mild thinning. Bordeaux like nose, red fruits, violet, graphite.. Elegant palate, dusted red fruits, black cherry, cedar, balsamic, cola (?). Great persistence through the mid palate. Tannins resolved. Texture was smooth throughout, notable. Medium weight, long finish. Truly outstanding wine …

1997 vintage

Big, bold & beautiful. Still going strong with a good many years ahead. A great steak wine.

2009 vintage

Very nice wine, good fruit and also nice acid balance. Some tannins still but not sure this improve that much more. Medium-long finish.

2009 vintage

Finally there. Decanted twice and consumed 6 hours later. This has gracefully aged such that the powerful leather and tobacco fruit doesn't blow a hole in the side of my brain like my previous bottles. The tannins aren't quite silky, but mildly grainy and worthy of more aging. Doesn't have quite the complexity that I expected after 25 years. Could easily spend a few more years in the bottle, but the palate will clearly become more muted with time. Drink …

1997 vintage

Very nice. Darker, aged color. Good palate feel good finish. On its way down. Drink

2009 vintage

very nice on night one with two hours of air, on night two similar but with a little extra kick of dark fruit intensity... not quite as friendly on night two... I like my cabs with some red fruit and this was mostly dark fruit... big structure here, maybe could benefit from another 5-7 years??... often hard to tell if the fruit is leaving or hiding with 20 year old CA cabs

1997 vintage

Drinking flawlessly after a one hour opening. Really beautiful wine

2009 vintage

Drinking a special bottle tonight to celebrate our beloved Vizsla-Samantha. She passed away this week and we miss her terribly.

2009 vintage

Nice and smooth, with good mouthfeel all the way through the finish. Medium weight. A bit light on the acid. Lots of subdued fruit with the edges rounded off.

2009 vintage

From a magnum. PnP: Beautifully open with aromas of dark cherry, cassis, loam and graphite. Very concentrated and lengthy palate with stewed cherries, cedar, tobacco leaf and chocolate. Vibrant acidity with complementary fine grained tannins to really round out the wine. Lovely. Will follow. After 24 hours slo ox, really no change. Would say it’s on the earlier side of its drinking window; but where I like my Napa cabs.

2009 vintage

Weekend in Westport; 8/25/2021-8/29/2021 (Westport, CT) : This was really nice. Great old world style. Drinking in a pretty perfect spot at the moment. More secondary notes. Decent fruit. Clearly well liked as it was one of the bottles that got completely finished early.

1997 vintage

Decanted three hours. Totally accessible now with the decant, the palate shows bright, dense black fruit that lovers of fruit-forward Napa Cab will enjoy.

2009 vintage

P&P. Good fruit and good mouthfeel on a hot night with burgers.

2009 vintage

Really good -- drinking perfect

2009 vintage

Double decanted for 2 hrs, deep ruby, black cherries with some vanilla on the nose, black cherries on the palate, med. tannins, long finish; outstanding, drink or hold

2009 vintage

I hesitantly purchased a couple of magnums of this from Garagiste recently; hesitancy was tempered by my past positive experience with the great 1997 vintage in California and presented in magnum format. Great decision in retrospect....an absolutely gorgeous wine. Stood up a couple of hours in advance, used an Ah-so cork puller, decanted shortly before a dinner of smoked beef tenderloin, etc. Deep clear, ruby color, garnet edges, no noticeable bricking. Aged, classy, perfumed, complex and elegant Bordeaux like nose: …

1997 vintage

From the first sip upon opening to the last drop, this wine is phenomenal! Garnet in color, no bricking, but it needed to be strained twice for the sediment. Black Fruit,chocolate, cola and of course the always present eucalyptus. IT filled the palate and exploded into a long incredible finish. I've drank wines that cost 3-4 times this one and most pale by comparison.

1997 vintage

At its prime to drink if you like aged wines...gone is the flavor complexity and body and in place is focused linearity that is reminiscent of a nice older Bordeaux structurally. Flavor profile also nods its head toward France with some leather, barnyard nuances and herbal mint cherry. Some people in our group did not appreciate the wine as much as I did as a lot of the fruit and body has gone..but I think the length, elegance and evolution …

1997 vintage

Showing extremely well! Very rich with fully integrated tannin. Beautiful nose of red/black fruits (red currants, blackberries), chocolate, tobacco and leather. Long finish.

1997 vintage

A bottle brought by a friend to our house from a purchase he and I made together a few years ago. This was the best bottle so far with some significant variation. He decanted it around 5pm at home and we drank it from about 7-9pm. The wine was a medium to dark garnet and showed only a little bricking. The nose was full of black fruit, chocolate and earthy leather. It had an extremely rich and mouth coating feel …

1997 vintage

Tampa Spring Break III; 2/16/2018-2/18/2018 (Tampa FL) : 6/17 wines tasted double blind. This one was really quite a surprise for me as well as others I believe. Would have been sure this was a Bordeaux from the 90's. Some browning on the color. Very restrained and elegant on the palate, with leather and cedar notes coming through the mature dark fruit. Quite interesting - first time with this producer.

1997 vintage

Tampa Spring Break (the third); 2/16/2018-2/18/2018 (Various Tampa locations (Seasons 52, Capital Grille, Berns etc.)) : Wine #6: I would have sworn this was old bordeaux. It has that leather and cigar and library character that I associate with that part of the world. In a great drinking window right now. Don't think it's getting better and prob will eventually start to fall off so drink up. Went great with the lamb chops.

1997 vintage

Loved the elegant profile of this wine- floral, cedar, rose, and blackberries. The perfume wasn't as expressive as I had hoped for, and the palate was rather light and fading. I've been trying 90s Spottswoode for the last several years and still haven't found one that performed better than the 2001 normal and Elivette cabs, which is my favorite vintage. For Bordeaux fans, Spring Mountain's flavor profile is closer to old world than typical Napa cab blends IMO.

1997 vintage

Delightful and still at peak. Decanted this magnum for an hour before drinking. Pronounced tobacco, saddle leather and spice. Tastes better than it did back in 2002.

1997 vintage

gave it two courtesy sips and sent it straight down the elevator

1997 vintage

This is similar to my previous tasting note. The tobacco and leather dominance of the palate was not so crushing compared to the previous bottle. This was much more enjoyable on day 2 when the flavors seemed to be more in harmonious. This has a decent, though not great, backbone and I when I try the next bottle 5-10 years from now (2021-2026) it might prove very interesting.

1997 vintage

Opened to celebrate. Crumbly cork. Cherry red on a medium body. Notes of cherry, cedar, iodine, elderberry. Still has some life, although thinning a bit. Lively acidity, and tannins that have smoothed out with time. Nice mature profile- this bottle seemingly a little bit better than the last one. Red fruit dominated with decent finish although I would recommend consuming in one setting. Updated: Forgot this was sitting for nearly a week with one glass left in the bottle under …

1997 vintage

Cali Cab at its best aged to perfection...drink up.

1997 vintage

Lots of ripe, dense and powerful fruit with some pronounced new oak spice. I liked the fruit quality a great deal, but found this slightly hot on finish.

1997 vintage

Nice dark ruby color. A bit less fragrant than my last bottle, but stiil it has a rich chocolate, oak and dark berry nose that is appealing. Flavors were rich and typical Cali cab reflecting the nose. A notch less complex and less aromatic than the last bottle, though still not like some other tasters have experienced. Pleasant, round and velvety. Perhaps this is as good as it will get but it shouldn't decline too precipitously.

1997 vintage

drinking well. definitely mature. no more reason to wait as it won't get better.

1997 vintage

There is no sign of some of the negative elements some others have noted. Double Decanted at 4 pm and drunk from 5-9pm. Deep dark ruby color. Nose of minty licorice, vanilla/oak and black currant. Flavors are fairly complex with a strong chocolate covered cherry element but I think will evolve favorably with more time in bottle. Mouthfeel is rich with well integrated tannins.

1997 vintage

On day one this was a freight train of flavors of leather and tobacco that ran me over. On day two this locomotive was still rolling at full speed. But there was a stunning lack of body and feel that was a very odd juxtaposition. With silky smooth tannins, I'll be drinking the remainder of my collection by 2015. I'm just not sure what to expect in 10 years.

1997 vintage

still amazing

1997 vintage

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