Reviews : J. Davies
92 points / 2006 J. Davies Cabernet Sauvignon - Wine Advocate
"The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon (79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Malbec, and 6% Petit Verdot) is a refined, gracious, elegant effort displaying loads of black and red currants intermixed with licorice, mountain flora, and underbrush characteristics. Medium to full-bodied with superb concentration, sweet tannin (especially for a 2006 mountain wine), and good acidity as well as purity, this terrific wine has a Bordeaux-like weight along with the beautiful ripeness and purity of a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Give it 2-3 years of cellaring, and drink it over the following two decades." (Dec. 2009)
94 points / 2006 J. Davies Cabernet Sauvignon - Wine Enthusiast
"This ’06 continues the winery’s recent successes
in Cabernet. It’s a lush, opulent wine. In its youth
the smoky oak stars, along with waves of blackberries,
black currants, plums and a spicy, meaty
note suggesting bacon. Beautiful now, although
tight in tannins, it should develop bottle aromatics
and complexities for at least the next six years." (Dec. 2009)
92 points / 2006 J. Davies Cabernet Sauvignon - Wine News
"Excellent color; purple to the rim. Rich cherry-chocolate scents with notes of oak and dark honey. Compact and crisp with fruit flavors of cherry and blackberry. Youthful, promising cherry-chocolate finish accented by oak." (Fall 2009)
4-Stars, Highly Recommended / 2006 J. Davies Cabernet Sauvignon - Decanter California Guide
"Voluptuous juicy briary wild berry fruit. Gentle herbal leafiness, cedar, graphite and liquorice. Long velvety finish." (September 2009)
91 points, First Place, Very Highly Recommended / 2006 J. Davies Cabernet Sauvignon - California Grapevine
"Mediurn-dark ruby; very attractive, forward, intense, fragrant, spicy, cassis and black cherry fruit aroma with hints of mint and vanilla; medium-full to full body; rich, plummy, textured, ripe black cherry fruit flavors with a velvety mouthfeel; medium-full to full tannin; lingering aftertaste. Precociously enjoyable to drink now." (Aug./Sept. 2009)
