Chateau Smith Cabernet Sauvignon 2009, Columbia Valley
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Critic Reviews (2)
The affable, character-full wines of Charles Smith are always a pleasure to encounter. This cabernet is plump with...
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Simple, ripe, fruity and oaky, with chocolate-vanilla flavour and firm, hard, wood tannins. Average length. Basic...
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Community Reviews (3)
Full bodied with rich dark fruit and spice flavours and aromas. A touch too much alcohol, but still and enjoyable wine.
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Can I have the bottle that Harvey Steiman from WS had?
Not a bad $15 wine sold here for $25. Nice concentration, black fruit, tar and, yes, vanilla. Feels a bit disjointed. Celebrity equivalent: Nick Nolte after the police arrest.
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If you run out of vanilla extract, you could probably substitute this wine. There's some black fruits and some spice, but you have to work to get past the vanilla to smell/taste them. Maybe in two years it will be better integrated, but it's almost undrinkable at this point.
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