Tasting notes

Nose: Ripe freshy fruit and berries lead of this highly aromatic wine. Later, the tobacco, coffee and chocolate comes through yet is well married with the vanilla. Palate: Agreeable, mature tannins elegantly convey the best expressions of the Puente Alto vines. The pleasant, long finish displays great harmony and balance in this vintage.

Rating

Wine Advocate 93 points (Jun 2007) The 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon has a spicy perfume of toasty oak, black currants, and blackberry liqueur. It has lots of extraction in its layered, structured personality and should evolve for another 6-8 years  Wine Spectator 96 points (Sep 30 2006) With a great nose of currant confiture and cocoa powder, this full-scaled Cabernet sports dark fig, currant and blackberry fruit layered with loam, cedar, tobacco, mineral and coffee. Long and authoritative finish just sails on thanks to rather regal tannins. Best from 2007 through 2016. 10,500 cases made. –JM Ranked #4 in Wine Spectator's 2006 Top 100 list.