Bryant Family Cabernet Sauvignon 1996

Professional Ratings

• 99 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The opaque purple-colored 1996 Cabernet Sauvignon offers a spectacular, exotic bouquet of Peking duck skins, blackberry and cassis liqueur, roasted herbs, and burning charcoal. It is phenomenally intense, with record levels of dry extract and glycerin. This hedonistic blockbuster is crammed with jammy fruits nicely buttressed and framed by adequate acidity and tannin. Drink this marvelous Cabernet Sauvignon now or cellar it for two decades. This is mind-boggling stuff!
• 95 Wine Spectator
  Aromas of creamy oak, mocha and hazelnut are intense and supple on the palate, joining a mix of currant, black cherry and plummy Cabernet fruit. Deftly balanced, this is aging nicely, with a long, persistent finish. The best of three bottles tasted.--1996 California Cabernet retrospective.