Reviews : J. Davies
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 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)
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)
90 points / 2006 J. Davies Cabernet Sauvignon - Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine
"Deep, well-defined fruit and a fine sense of winemaking polish
win this mannerly, well-crafted bottling high recommendation,
and, if not among the more dramatic Cabernets to be had, it is
as precise and as well-focused as any. Ample, yet never in the
least way heavy, and fit with temperate tannins, it is the picture
of class from beginning to end and will age handsomely owing to style rather than brawn." (April 2010)
