Kate Hufnagel

9.5

Magnificent! — 3 months ago

Tom Casagrande

9.2

54% Carignane 26% Zin, 20% Mataro. Popped and poured. Gorgeously zingy Carignane dark cherry and blackberry Zin fruit combine but are going mano-a-mano with American oak coconutty scents. Perhaps that’ll integrate with air. On the palate there’s beautiful fruit/acid/tannin balance. Nicely concentrated. Should be really good with pasta con broccoli rabe.

UPDATE: This was a hair better on night 2. The oak had settled down a bit and the beautifully pure fruit was out front in the limelight. — a year ago

Michael Faddis

8.9

Smooth drink at the Limelight Hotel, Snowmass — 5 years ago

with Kimberly

Boris

8.9

Ruby pepper on the tongue — 6 years ago

Nicholas Norbut

9.0

Good with pork, apple, fall — 9 months ago

Aaron Tan

9.3

A note from Christmas. Befitting of the ocassion - it always feels so special to open a Vin Jaune. Something about these highly intense wines that just begs for contemplation. I found the 11' En Spois a really elegant expression of the wine, with citrus fruit and saline characters stealing the limelight. Sure it was aldehydic and leesy, as one would expect a Vin Jaune to be, but it never overpowered the juicy elements of the wine. For me, the ace-in-the-hole here was the sappy texture and "clean" linear acidity. All that with walnuts and Manchego - incredible! Just wished we had Comté then. — 3 years ago

Brittany Leamon

9.5

Incredibly nose without any alcoholic punch. The wine is drinkable with a dryness that lifts off the palate and leaves the flavor of the earth as and mild spice. The fruit is pleasant without demanding the limelight. — 5 years ago

"Odedi"

9.4

Parallel Wines Limelight Cabernet Sauvignon 2016, Napa Valley, California

It is time for my #FridayCabernetfix.

Dark ruby in color, almost Inky, with a short purple rim.

Fruity nose with chocolate notes, vanilla and cedar.

Full bodied and elegant with medium acidity and long legs.

Dry and very fruity on the palate with nice complexity.

Showing blackberries, cooked cherries, spices, cedar, licorice, vanilla, leather, chocolates, tobacco, black pepper, light tar, earth and black tea.

Long finish with fine grained tannins and cherries.

This 7 year old Napa Cabernet is already delicious, and will continue to age nicely in the next 10 years.

Rich and extracted, yet elegant. A gorgeous wine.

Good right out of the bottle, and better after 2 hours of airtime.

A great wine from Philippe Melka. Has great potential to become a 95+ point wine. Would be nice to revisit it in 5 years.

Thank you Barry for sharing this with me.

Wine Advocate 94 points.

Cabernet Sauvignon grapes were aged in French oak barrels for 19 months.

15.1% alcohol by volume.

94 points.

$250. — a year ago

Mads Møller

8.9

Vosne Romanée was in the limelight in this podcast that I am following the other day. So I har to have a taste. And I must say that it has got style. 17/5-2021 — 4 years ago

Shay A

9.3

@Delectable Wine : This is the Parallel Wines Black Diamond “Limelight”. I didn’t see it in the database.

Attended a Parallel Wines private tasting last night. Very nice and classic in style. Didn’t realize how small their production is...less than 600 total cases. This is their 20th year and Melka has been with them from the beginning.

Shockingly open for a reserve 2016 Napa cab (100% cab). It’s still flaunting dusty and chalky tannins on the finish but it’s an iron fist in a velvet glove overall. Black cherry, raspberry fig, plum, and baking spices jump from the glass. Soft on the palate. High percentage dark cocoa, mulberry and fresh cedar. — 5 years ago