Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cask 23 Cabernet Sauvignon 1991

Professional Ratings

• 96 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The superb 1991 Cask 23 Proprietary Red Wine appears to be one of the truly outstanding examples of this expensive proprietary red wine. The wine's saturated dark purple color is followed by a huge, unevolved but sexy nose of toasty new oak, dense, black-cherry and jammy cassis fruit, and vague scents of underbrush and spice. Extremely rich and concentrated, it offers intriguing blackcurrant and coffee flavors, full body, remarkable harmony, and a finish that lasts for nearly a minute. Still young, unevolved, and less flattering at present than the more open knit 1990, it merits cellaring of 2-4 years.
• 92 Wine Spectator
  Smells complex and keeps introducing new flavor nuances, with an array of stewed plum, coffee, currant, black olive, roasted pine nut, red plum and red licorice. Shows a mix of youthful and mature flavors.--'81/'91 California Cabernet retrospective. Drink now through 2006. 2,500 cases made.