2003 Schrader Cellars, 'Old Sparky' Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Magnum (1.5L), [cracked capsule]
Price On Request
97+RP
Critic key
RP = Robert Parker
- Rating
- RP97+
- Producer
- Schrader
- Vintage
- 2003
- Region
- California
- Appellation
- Napa Valley
- Country
- United States
- Format
- [cracked
- Volume
- 1500mL
- Type
- Still
- Color
- Red
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Product Description
Nearly as tannic as the Schrader Beckstoffer To-Kalon, the 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon Old Sparky Beckstoffer To- Kalon Vineyard is the first vintage where Thomas Brown and the Schraders were able to use all of their clones in the blend. Relatively backward and not as open-knit aromatically and fragrant as the T6 or RBS, and not as exuberant as the Schrader To-Kalon, it possesses fabulous intensity, a full-bodied richness and lots of blue and black fruit notes intermixed with graphite and cedarwood. This impressive young wine reminds me of a first growth Pauillac. Forget it for 4-5 years and drink it over the following two decades.
Schrader, Old Sparky Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
Schrader, Old Sparky Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley