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Booker Red My Favorite Neighbor 2016  - First Bottle

Reviews

97 Jeb Dunnuck -
The 2016 My Favorite Neighbor is made with the intent of competing with cult Napa Cabernet Sauvignon yet at a more maintainable $80 price point. Coming all from westside Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon, mostly on clay soils, and brought up all in French oak, I'm thrilled to say that it succeeds beautifully. This deep purple-colored beauty offers an incredible perfume of creme de cassis, blackberries, graphite, lead pencil, and ample crushed rock-like minerality. Showing more nuance and floral characteristics with time in the glass as well as full body, sweet tannins, and no hard edges, it's a sensationally rich and seamless Cabernet Sauvignon from Paso Robles to drink over the coming decade.
96 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
The 2016 My Favorite Neighbor Proprietary Blend is 69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Syrah and 11% Petit Verdot. Very deep purple-black colored, it reveals intense cassis, ripe plums and wild blueberries with touches of licorice, tilled soil and black pepper with a waft of floral notions. Full, rich, chocolaty and oh-so-seductive, it fills the mouth with generous crushed black berries flavors framed by rounded tannins and finishing long and spicy.

Technical Details

  • Blend69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Syrah and 11% Petit Verdot
  • WinemakerEric Jensen
  • CountryUS
  • RegionCalifornia Central Coast
  • AppellationPaso Robles
  • Alcohol14.8%

Booker Red My Favorite Neighbor 2016

Cabernet Blends  |  US
JD97, WA96

Too late, we are SOLD OUT!

Anyone looking for pedal-to-the-metal, turbocharged Cabernet should be buying as much as possible of this (until we run out). It is, after all, $479.70 a 6-pack DELIVERED, and who can sneeze at THAT?!

 

Jeb Dunnuck sums this up quite well (full review below), and we were totally stoked to have scored a few cases of this stuff --- WOW! Booker, of course, is one of the hottest wineries in the Paso area right now (along with L’Aventure, and Saxum, and worth noting that Booker winemaker/proprietor Eric Jensen worked for Stephan Asseo at L’Aventure and Justin Smith at Saxum), and this new release vaults them to ever-greater fame. Good thing we have you covered!

 

Great price, free shipping on 6, all 100% IN STOCK --- please just act quick, we only have a bit to go around! Happy Monday!

About the Producer

The name Booker comes from the two orphan brothers, Claude and Dick Booker, who had purchased a swath of land in the late 1920s. By the turn of the century the Booker brothers had acquired over 1,200 acres on Paso's Westside. Eric and Lisa Jensen purchased 100 acres of the property in 2001 with the intent of growing the best fruit for some of the best wineries in the area. After making wine with Justin Smith (of Saxum) for five years and Stephan Asseo (of L'Aventure Wines) for two years the Jensens decided it was time to create their own expression with Booker Vineyard. The 2005 Vintage was Booker Vineyard's first release with the wines being made by owner Eric Jensen.