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Wine Advocate # 195 (June 2011) Review of 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon, Paradise Hills Vineyard

Blankiet Estate Proprietary Red

Review by Robert Parker

Rating: (95)


This is a great effort from Blankiet that has turned out beautifully, with a silky personality, voluptuous texture, beautiful nose of roasted herbs, burning embers, smoked meat, spring flowers, and plenty of blackberry and cassis. Almost La Mission Haut-Brion-ish in its character thanks to the minerality and smokiness, the wine is full-bodied, rich, concentrated, and has shed its once-considerable tannins, which are relatively rapid-paced. That said, as drinkable and complex as it is already, this wine still has another 20 years left in it.

 

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