This is the beginning of reports for a very special weekend in Napa Valley in 2018. I have thought often regarding publishing this but waited so as to clean it up a little and again to remove any names to protect the innocent so to speak. Most of the wines are available though many in the auction market and they are not the lower priced wines I strive to report on. But if you read all the articles I am certain it will add significantly to your wine knowledge. Frankly many of these wines are for myself and a lot of friends worth the cost but also are special occasion wines not to be enjoyed frequently.
Hundred Acre Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 RP 99
The week started with dinner at Gott's in St Helena California hamburger stand which is a unique experience in and of itself along with our hamburgers we had the Hundred Acre 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon. What a complete decadent combination. It's a great wine. The bouquet and taste had licorice Cassis and leather. It was very well-balanced and had a nice prolonged finish and Rich fruit flavors along with the ones mentioned above. Clearly a superior wine. Of Interest we went to Dean & DeLuca the next morning and they had a ton of it sitting on the shelf so it's apparently pretty popular.
Scarecrow Vertical
After dinner back to the house and an embarrassment of riches. A big thank you to our hosts for a epic 3 year vertical of Scarecrow where the lowest rated wine was 99! Go figure. To me they of course were fairly similar as you might expect. For me the 2014 was the star and I detected both in the nose and taste a hint of black cherry which to me is unusual for a cab. The others in our group seemed to prefer the 2013 as it was the first empty glass for most of us. Here are Robert Parkers description which I found to be right on track.
2013 Scarecrow RP 100
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "The prodigious 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, including fruit from some of the oldest Cabernet vines still in existence in Napa. This full-bodied classic displays notes of forest floor, earth, crème de cassis, blackberry liqueur, licorice and some pen ink. It is dense, full-bodied, prodigiously rich, massive in intensity, yet relatively light on its feet. This great ballerina of a wine has extraordinary ripeness but pulls back from the edge before going over the top. There are 1,000 cases of this classic, which should age effortlessly for 30+ years.
2014 Scarecrow RP100
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "The utterly perfect 2014 Scarecrow Cabernet Sauvignon (1,500 cases) has everything one could possibly want in a Cabernet. Inky purple-colored to the rim, with a glorious nose of white flowers, crème de cassis, hints of blackberry and boysenberry, some licorice and forest floor are followed by an enormously concentrated wine with fabulous purity, a skyscraper-like mid-palate and texture, a length of nearly a minute, and stunning flavors, with flawless integration of acidity, tannin, wood and alcohol. This is a great, great wine and certainly one of the Cabernet Sauvignons of this vintage. Drink it over the next 25-30 or more years.
2015 Scarecrow RP 99
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "Produced from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon leaps from the glass with gorgeous floral notes of red roses and lilacs over a core of black and red cherries, crushed black currants and baking spices plus hints of iron ore and dusty earth. The voluptuous, rounded, soft and sexy fruit slinks across the palate with incredible seamlessness and expression. Make no mistake, it is full-bodied and decadently powerful, but with a myriad of aromatic nuances, finishing long, layered and boldly perfumed
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