Volume 32, Issue 10: August 2008
CABERNET SAUVIGNON SUBSCRIBERS ONLY In cool vintages like 2005, the wines that succeed are likely to be balanced, layered and ageworthy, but those that miss will be thin and green while those that are pushed too hard will be coarse and low in fruit. This is a vintage in which selectivity has never been more important. 1968 and 1967 Cabernet Sauvignon Retrospective SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Our look at 40 year old Cabernets finds many that are still alive and kicking. Best Buys SUBSCRIBERS ONLY You can rely on Best Buys to bring you wines that are easy on the palate and equally easy on the pocket book.				SUBSCRIBERS ONLY CONNOISSEURS' FORUMS with edtiors Charles Olken and Stephen Eliot. 2005 Lancaster Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Alexander Valley 5% Cabernet Franc; 2% Malbec; 2% Merlot; 1% Petit Verdot. A bit brooding and closed at present, this substantial young wine delivers plenty of depth and fruit extract from the start. It slowly unfolds to show plenty of dense, curranty fruit aligned with lots of sweet, slightly vanillin oak, and its incisive varietal flavors stay the course even as ample tannins come into play. A successful and serious effort in need of time in the cellar, it will not reach its best until a decade has passed. $70.00 Score: 91