2005 Bryant Family Cabernet Sauvignon
- 92 WA
- 94 WS
- 90 IWC
- Variety
Cabernet Sauvignon
Wine Spectator | Rating: 94
Elegant and stylish, with ripe, vivid black cherry, currant, wild berry and black olive flavors that gain depth and vibrancy, picking up body and complexity and ending with a long, lingering finish that keeps repeating the fruit and cedary oak themes.Author: James LaubeInternational Wine Cellar | Rating: 90
Good saturated ruby-red. Sexy aromas of currant, minerals, brown spices and oak. Chewy, sappy and broad but quite dry; this combines an almost liqueur-like quality with a slight mid-palate hollowness (the '06 has more stuffing). Finishes with substantial, slightly dry tannins. I loved this wine from barrel in March of 2007, but the finished wine doesn't show the depth or verve of my earlier sample.Author: Stephen TanzerIssue: May/June 2008Wine Advocate | Rating: 92
The 2005 continues to exhibit a European-styled finesse, elegance, and a certain austerity. The wine also shows considerable new oak, lots of acidity, which is almost atypical for this vineyard site, and a deep ruby/purple color with notes of cedar, bay leaf, cigar box, and copious quantities of black currant liqueur. It is a streamlined, classic, but slightly austere style for Bryant.Author: Robert Parker
Self | Rating: 93
Author: Billy the KidSelf | Rating: 97
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Great bottleAuthor: DelanoP
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Collector Data For This Wine
- 779 bottles owned
- 149 collectors
- Average collector rating: 95
(Out of 149 collectors)