Nickel & Nickel John C. Sullenger Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 1999

Professional Ratings

• 92 Wine Spectator
  Enormously complex, with currant jam, black cherry and nicely integrated mocha and vanilla flavors from toasty oak that are mellow and ripe, with lingering chocolate overtones. Supple, round tannins frame the concentrated finish, showing a trace of heat.
• 90 Wine Enthusiast
  This smells like Bordeaux, from the cassis and earth all the way to the foresty aromas that some might even call green. The palate is a smooth ride of currant, plum and bitter chocolate, all with a cool, herbal underbelly.
• 90 Connoisseurs' Guide

  Still offering a good look at the distinctly curranty fruit of Cabernet as it arrives at its twenty-third year and a wine that exhibits a good deal of aged complexity while possessing surprising stamina and energy, this nicely developed offering has the structure and light tannic grip to keep for a bit. While it is far from fragile and in no danger of precipitous decline.