Description
99 Wine Advocate
The most backward of this quartet appears to be the 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon Schrader Beckstoffer To-Kalon Vineyard. With great richness, power and intensity as well as lots of blackberry, creme de cassis, coffee and chocolaty notes, an exuberant fragrance, a certain sensuality and sexiness despite its massive richness and full-bodied, broodingly backward style; this killer Cabernet needs to be forgotten for 3-4 years. It should be drunk over the following two decades. (RP) (6/2013)
93 International Wine Cellar
Good saturated medium ruby. Cassis, licorice, bitter chocolate and menthol aromas lifted by a violet topnote. Fat, dense and sweet, with black fruits complicated by cocoa powder. Very densely packed cabernet, finishing with suave, sweet tannins. A superb showing today. (ST) (8/2006)
92 Wine Spectator
Richly flavored yet elegantly styled, with layers of ripe black cherry, currant, anise, cedar and sage, firming up with chewy tannins and returning to the cherry and berry flavors. (JL) (6/2006)
About Schrader Cellars
Fred Schrader founded Schrader Cellars in 1998. Since that time, the brand has gained renown for its incredible vineyard sourcing and its remarkably gifted winemaker, Thomas Brown. Since the start, Schrader has achieved a total of twenty-seven 100-point scores from the likes of The Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator, Jeb Dunnuck, and James Suckling.
For more than a decade Schrader Cellars has produced benchmark Cabernet Sauvignon from the most prestigious vineyards in the Napa Valley — notably the first-growth Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard in Oakville, along with Beckstoffer Georges III Vineyard in Rutherford, Beckstoffer Las Piedras in Northwest St. Helena, and newly the Monastery Block To Kalon Vineyard in Oakville.
