Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
The inky/purple-tinged 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Coeur de Vallee is a 250-case blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Cabernet Franc. It offers up complex notes of unsmoked high class cigar tobacco, creme de cassis, subtle barbecue smoke, licorice and pen ink. Full-bodied with outstanding texture, purity and length, this awesome Cabernet Sauvignon can be enjoyed over the next 25-30 years.
Wine Spectator
Ultrarich and concentrated, syrupy in extract, but nonetheless balanced in this style, with a smorgasbord of flavors, offering tiers of black licorice, kirsch, blackberry and dark berry jam notes, with cedar and tobacco. Yet for all its up-front gush and burst of fruit, this sails along nicely on the finish. Best from 2012 through 2022.
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