I opend this wine after opening a corked 1999 Pegau CDP .

Out of the gates the wine showed a wonderful nose of black currants, smoke, vanilla, and spice. Super dark and concentrated black/purple color. Tasting revealed nice extraction and gobs of black currant with licorice and loads of spicy vanilla. Full-bodied mouthfeel quickly gives way to a hollow midpalate then a sweet oak laced finish that lasts for 15-20 seconds. Needs a year or so to flesh out and come into balance. 88-89 points

Seek1:

If you're lucky, you can get your money back on the Pegau. We opened a bottle of the 99 at the Vino Con Brio tasting, and it is shutting down hard. Better to get the money back than commit infanticide.

Back on topic: I will let the S2 sleep, thanks for the notes.

Mike

Just got 3 this past week. Thanks for taking the plunge, seek. So this is not a 93pt. wine for just $18. Damn!

jb

We just bought 3 bottles- opened one Sat night. Definately more complex, polished and intense than the regular Cab- I agree with Seek's notes above- I'd give it a 90-91, I also got chocolate and mint notes on the finish. Unfortunately we paid 23.99 a bottle... but still a good wine for the $$.

Seek1: I also paid about $18.00 (3 or 4 bottles). Would you stick with 3 or 4? Or, given a chance, Buy more @ about $18.00?

Sorry LCC, I must have missed your post. I have one bottle remaining and that is where it will stay. I might want to pick up one more to have for a few more years out beyond my next one, but that would be the limit. Just another $20+/- bottle of wine with decent quality.

Thank You. I go back-&-forth with this 1. Just may stay with the current holdings. And, move on to something else.

Just bought last 2 cases of this stuff wholesale thru my restaurant....all other varieties are nowhere to be found.Havent had it yet , any tips on decanting this wine or drinking straight out ??? Cost me $ 15 per bottle

i would decant for at least an hour. i found it to be better the second night.

I drank this over a 5 hour period and it did show best after the first hour and it stayed steady from there out.

Parker gave this a 93. And, it is doing OK in the secondary market. Buying a few could make sense.

Had this one yesterday. Opened for 5 of us so didn't get much of a sample. Let me start by saying I didn't decant and the wine was actually a little on the colder side probably 55-57 degrees which I think muted the wine a little and it perked up as it warmed in the glass. Concur with seek, Dark wine with nice fruit, vanilla and spice with a long sweet finish. I would give this one 90-91pts, and definitely 3-4 pts better than the regular cab which has more minty notes and not nere the layered flavors of this one. I think a good buy for under $20.

Finally tried one of my four bottles of this last night. Very well done, but not worth the 93 pts RP gave it. I thought it was an 89 with a chance to crack 90 with some bottle age. Still a great value though. Parker may have overrated all the MP wines, but it is hard to argue with the QPR they provide.

jb

We opened our first btl of this on Friday night, tasted after 2+ hours in the decanter. No formal notes as this was a social occasion, but imo Parker was right on the money with this one - worth every one of those 93 points and every one of thos $19.00 I paid. Glad I have 13 more in the cellar

This was rated by Wine Spectator in the last issue. They called it a 90. It appears that this forum agrees with Harvey.


HS also rated the "9", he gave it 93 points.

TCK

TCK,
At least WS ans WA are within 3 points of each other this time!

We just scored two additional cases of this from WineEx, which received a 10-case shipment Wednesday. Plan to have a bottle tonight.

Zachy's is showing this on their website for $29.99 for any one interested.

That's outrageous.

Yes it is high compared to what most of us here paid, but I have seen it much higher.........like $40-45. That's outrageous.