Bright, dense garnet with thin clear edges. Completely milky, but somewhat my own fault, as I did something I rarely do: purchased it, drove home and opened it. Still, with 48 months of barrel age (according to label), one would think sediment in bottle would be nearly negated. I mean: do the math. A 2010 spending 4 years in barrel would be bottled less than 6 months ago. And was it not racked during those four years? How would it have developed sediment since November, 2014?
Big gummy-bear fruit nose laid over a Saran-Wrap-ish sort of plasticine milk chocolate dipped in carrot juice. The fruit is so tired, so run over, so completely oxidized on this poor thing. Way way way down inside is a teensy speck of minty briar but I am tired of trying to find something good to say about this bottle. HOW is this one of Paso’s top Cabernets?!?! This ranks up there with Le Cuvier, Carmody-McNight, Rotta and CORE in the *Completely over-wrought, mussed up, stop fucking with it, trying too hard, dirty cellar, sloppy winemaking, leave-it-in-barrel-another-year-that’ll-fix-it* category of wineries.
In the mouth, fat and uninteresting. Completely one-dimensional and boring. There is no complexity, no life, no layers of ANYTHING, just fat vapid mono-chromatic maderized fruit plopped on a leaking car battery and ran through with an oak limb. The banana-peel finish trying so desperately to be mis-took for tannin is all that remains of the fruit and you are left with the bitter reminder of that time you judged the County Fair Home Winemaking Competition. This is embarrassing cab.
2010 HANSEN VINEYARDS ‘Limited Release’ Cabernet Sauvignon Paso Robles 14.6
Stephen McConnell 