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N°10 Cabernet Sauvignon Reviews

Score: 93 | January 31, 2024 | Wine Advocate

Mainly St. Helena fruit, with a bit from Oakville blended in, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon No. 10 is based on clone 7, one of the valley's top performers. It's a bit more concentrated and muscular than many of the other JCB wines, its cassis and vanilla notes picking up appealing hints of licorice. Full-bodied with a creamy texture, the tannins become more perceptible on the long finish.

Score: 94 | December 20, 2023 | James Suckling

An aromatic and refined nose of dark berries, dark plums, dried herbs, bay leaves and some mild spices. Full body with plush tannins. Creamy dark berries at the center with hints of chocolate mingling with the spices and herbs. Layered and well-structured with a focused, long finish. Try after 2025.

Score: 97-99 | February 16, 2023 | Jeb Dunnuck

In comparison, the 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon JCB #10 is a bigger, richer, more unctuous effort that reveals a dense purple color as well as a smorgasbord-like array of ripe blue fruits, chocolaty oak, violets, and ripe herbs. It's full-bodied and concentrated, yet still holds onto a terrific sense of finesse and elegance, and the tannins are beautiful. Both wines are brilliant.

Score: 95 | October 27, 2022 | The Wine Independent

Deep garnet in color, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon No 10 bursts with notes of baked blackcurrants and stewed plums with hints of sauteed herbs, pencil lead, and crushed rocks. The full-bodied palate is rich and powerful, coating the whole mouth with firm, rugged tannins, finishing long and earthy.

Score: 94 | June 1, 2022 | JamesSuckling.com

Aromas of black cherry, blackcurrant, plum and black tea. Full-bodied with silky tannins. There is mineral character to the solid core of black fruit, helping to give freshness and transparency. Persistent and well balanced. Best after 2025.

Score: 97 | March 10, 2022 | Jeb Dunnuck

Per the always charming Jean-Charles, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon JCB #10 is made to be 10 times as big, and while the #1 release is a seamless, finesse-driven wine, this is more opulent and hedonistic, with an awesome bouquet of black fruits, smoked tobacco, graphite, and lead pencil nuances. It’s a monster of a wine, yet somehow stays beautifully balanced, light on its feet, pure, and graceful. It’s another beautiful wine in the lineup that will deliver the goods over the coming two decades or more.

Score: 94 | January 1, 2022 | Vinous/Antonio Galloni

The 2019 JCB #10 is an opulent, full-throttle wine packed with super-ripe red fruit, sweet spice, white chocolate, blood orange and mint. Readers will find a classic Jean-Charles Boisset Napa Cabernet built on texture and density.

--Antonio Galloni

Score: 98 | January 27, 2021 | JebDunnuck.com

Also all Cabernet, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon JCB #10 is slightly deeper purple-hued and offers a more blockbuster styled bouquet of blackcurrants, dark chocolate, scorched earth, and graphite, with full-bodied, richness, beautiful purity, great tannins, and a balanced, layered, age-worthy style. It needs 4-5 years of bottle age and will evolve for 30 years or more.

Score: 96+ | February 26, 2021 | The Wine Advocate

Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon coming from the west side of St. Helena, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon No. 10 has a deep garnet-purple color and delivers a stunning nose of warm black plums, cassis and baked black cherries with hints of underbrush, black truffles and tree bark plus a waft of cinnamon stick. The full-bodied palate has a rock-solid structure of firm, grainy tannins and bold freshness supporting the densely packed black fruit and earthy flavors, finishing on a thought-provoking mineral note. 126 cases were made.

Score: 92 | January 1, 2021 | Vinous/Antonio Galloni

The 2018 No. 10 offers up an attractive melange of sweet floral and spice notes to play off a core of ripe red berry fruit. This mid-weight wine is a bit tight today, but like all of the 2018s it is done in a heady, flamboyant style.

-- Antonio Galloni

Score: 96+ | February 26, 2021 | Wine Advocate

Made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon coming from the west side of St. Helena, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon No. 10 has a deep garnet-purple color and delivers a stunning nose of warm black plums, cassis and baked black cherries with hints of underbrush, black truffles and tree bark plus a waft of cinnamon stick. The full-bodied palate has a rock-solid structure of firm, grainy tannins and bold freshness supporting the densely packed black fruit and earthy flavors, finishing on a thought-provoking mineral note. 126 cases were made.

Score: 98 | January 27, 2021 | JebDunnuck.com

Also all Cabernet, the 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon JCB #10 is slightly deeper purple-hued and offers a more blockbuster styled bouquet of blackcurrants, dark chocolate, scorched earth, and graphite, with full-bodied, richness, beautiful purity, great tannins, and a balanced, layered, age-worthy style. It needs 4-5 years of bottle age and will evolve for 30 years or more.

Score: 92 | January 1, 2021 | Vinous/Antonio Galloni

The 2018 No. 10 offers up an attractive melange of sweet floral and spice notes to play off a core of ripe red berry fruit. This mid-weight wine is a bit tight today, but like all of the 2018s it is done in a heady, flamboyant style. -- Antonio Galloni

Score: 96 | October 29, 2018 | Wine Advocate

100% Cabernet Sauvignon aged in 62% new French oak for 20 months, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon No. 10 is very deep purple-black in color with lovely espresso, baked plums, stewed cherries and crème de cassis with earthy notions plus hints of sandalwood and sautéed herbs. The palate is big, rich, bold and decadent with velvety tannins and wonderful freshness, finishing long and spicy with some meatiness coming through. 222 cases produced.

Score: 93 | March 27, 2018 | Vinous/Antonio Galloni

The 2015 No. 10 is one of the more polished wines in the range. The No. 10 isn't quite as flamboyant as some other wines in the range, but it more than makes up for that with its persistence and shapely feel. Sweet red cherry, pomegranate and bright floral notes are some of the signatures.

Score: Double Gold | January 30, 2018 | American Fine Wine Competition
Score: 94 | December 29, 2017 | Wine Advocate

The very deep purple-black 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon No. 10, made up of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, has an earthy, savory nose with notes of truffles, dried herbs and black fruits. The full-bodied mouth is powerful, firm and chewy with a lively backbone and long earthy finish. 192 cases were made.

Score: (95-97) | December 29, 2017 | Wine Advocate

The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon No. 10 (a barrel sample of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon) is very deep purple-black colored with a nose of crème de cassis, chocolate box, beef drippings and black truffles with mocha, menthol and tapenade hints. Full-bodied, rich, firm, powerful and concentrated, this blockbuster of a Cabernet has fine-grained tannins and a long finish. 150 cases produced.

Score: 95-97+ | December 29, 2017 | JebDunnuck.com

Notes of blackcurrants, smoked herbs, chocolate and gravely minerality emerge from the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon JCB #10, and it’s a full-bodied, opulent, blockbuster style wine that ticks all the right boxes. With awesome purity, fine, polished tannin, terrific concentration, and a great finish, it will benefit from short-term cellaring and keep for 2+ decades.

Score: 98 | December 29, 2017 | JebDunnuck.com

Made as a counterpoint to the JCB #1, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon JCB #10 shows the more powerful, concentrated, structured side to Cabernet. Blackcurrants, crème de cassis, vanilla bean, scorched earth, and a hint of background oak all emerge from this big, rich, opulent beauty. With fine tannin, full-bodied richness, and a surprisingly elegant, weightless texture, it’s a gorgeous 2015 that will benefit from short-term cellaring and keep for 25+ years.

Score: 95+ | October 29, 2015 | Wine Advocate

Another majestic effort from Boisset is the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon JCB No. 10. This is 90% Cabernet Sauvignon from Oakville and 10% Petit Verdot. The wine shows terrific floral notes intermixed with blackberry and blueberry fruit, blackcurrants as well, subtle earthiness, a full-bodied, multilayered mouthfeel and a terrific finish of close to 50 seconds. This is a stunner and there are 235 cases of this unfiltered classic. Drink it over the next ten or more years.

Score: 92 | December 1, 2017 | Wine Enthusiast

This broad-shouldered, full-bodied wine shocks and awes with its clove and black pepper notes that are as savory as a fine steak, with which it would pair brilliantly. Oak and tannin form a shield of power that girds the black fruit for further battle.

Score: 94 | October 26, 2016 | Wine Advocate

The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon JCB No. 10 is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, mostly from the westside of St. Helena. This wine spent 19 months in 50% new French oak before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. There are only 210 cases of it, but it is a sensational effort. With an inky black color, notes of blackberry, blueberry, cassis, licorice, graphite and incense. It is full-bodied, layered and a big, juicy, succulent mouthful of Cabernet Sauvignon to drink now and over the next 20+ years.

Score: Double Gold | January 28, 2016 | American Fine Wine Competition
Score: 90 | December 31, 2015 | Wine Enthusiast

This is a massively dense, extracted and dry wine, entirely varietal and brooding in style. Tobacco and leather form its core, with the fruit elusive and pushed backward. Smoky oak penetrates the thick walls of tannin, forming a combustible, lengthy finish.  — V.B.

Score: 90+ | November 1, 2014 | Wine Advocate

There are fewer than 100 cases of the 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon JCN No. 10, a tannic, muscular, dense effort made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from Clone 4. A backward, muscular wine built for long-term aging, it is more structured and masculine than most 2012s. It was difficult to evaluate because of its massive structure.

Score: 91 | May 1, 2014 | JamesSuckling.com
A solid wine with currants, mint and berry character. Medium to full body, soft tannins and a juicy finish. Opens on the palate with air. Drink or hold.
Score: Double Gold | February 6, 2014 | American Fine Wine Competition
Score: 90+ | October 1, 2013 | Wine Advocate
The 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon JCB No. 10 reveals a strikingly pure, black currant-scented nose with lots of high quality wood in the background, and good framework, structure and intensity. Young and exuberant, it shows lots of upside potential, but it is currently closed with high tannins as well as wood. However, there is a lot of impressive raw materials evident.
Score: 95 | August 1, 2013 | Wine Enthusiast
The word massive barely begins to describe this Cabernet Sauvignon. It aims to compete with anything from Napa Valley, and does so largely successfully. The palate offers waves of ripe blackberries, black currants, dark chocolate and smoky oak flavors. What’s harder to put into words is the elegance and balance. Despite its serious heft, the wine feels comfortable…