92
points
Cameron Hughes 2007 Lot 172 Cabernet Sauvignon (Atlas Peak)
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$22
Another of Cameron Hughes’ terrific Cabernets at a good price. This wine will easily stand beside Cabs far more expensive, with its dry, crisply complex flavors of blackberries, cherries, currants, anise, mocha and oak.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)
91
points
Cameron Hughes 2007 Lot 175 Merlot (Napa Valley)
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$13
This is an unbelievable price for a Napa Merlot of this quality. The wine is softly tannic, dry and rich, with crisp acidity balancing complex flavors of cherries, currants, herbs, violets and cedar. Taste this against Merlots costing five times as much, and it will acquit itself well.
— S.H.
(12/31/2010)
91
points
Cameron Hughes 2007 Lot 149 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
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$22
Give this young Cabernet a good decant before you serve, because it’s a big, brooding wine that needs some air to open up. Right out of the bottle, it’s tannic and dry, and the blackberry and black currant flavors are buried under a blanket of astringency. But it’s quite a good, well-made wine.
— S.H.
(7/1/2010)
91
points
Cameron Hughes 2005 Lot 47 Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain)
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$20
This wine has the solid tannins the mountain is known for, and ripe flavors of blackberries, currants, cherries and chocolate, enriched with new oak. At twenty bucks, and with a low production, it’s a stunning value. With real elegance and even ageworthiness, it’s one of the best at its price point available now.
— S.H.
(3/1/2008)