TN: 1990 Raymond Cabernet Sauvignon

1990 Raymond Cabernet Sauvignon - came across this single bottle in my general winnowing process to reduce the number of bottles that might be ageing out. Some are indeed heading over the hill, but others are a pleasant surprise and this is one of those. Still fairly dark with a pleasant sweet fruit nose, and a good balance on palate. It presented more like a mature Bordeaux than a Cal-cab - it had lost the often somewhat blowsy early fruit and narrowed down into a well developed almost elegant cabernet based wine and it had a long clean finish. Good enough to make me wish it wasn't a lone survivor. It may have been purchased here or more likely I got it at the winery - it was in any case a modestly priced wine and it was nice that it performed above expected at the age of 36!

[David M. Bueker]

Excellent result!

Perhaps I will dig out another one of my dad's neglected bottles this weekend.

I bet that you have had mixed results - some going over the hill and others in amazingly good shape. And hard to predict ahead of time with a given wine! Oenological roulette!

[David M. Bueker]

I bet that you have had mixed results - some going over the hill and others in amazingly good shape. And hard to predict ahead of time with a given wine! Oenological roulette!

Yep, especially since he bought a lot of the older stuff on the secondary market. Good stores, but who really knows how a given bottle was treated.