Groth turned in a superb performance with its 1985 regular cuvee of Cabernet Sauvignon. It offers beautiful sweet ripe flashy black-cherry and cassis fruit toasty oak and a subtle herbaceous note. Rich opulent and fully mature this velvety-textured explosively fruity wine should be drunk over the next 5-10 years.Given the superb performances in 1983 1984 1985 and 1986 I wonder why Groth's Cabernets have become so herbaceous and vegetal in recent vintages since?

Lovely perfumed floral and cherry-berry aromas belie its age. Supple and graceful this is a delicate wine that has shed most of its tannins yet retained a tasty core of fruit. Best soon as the plum floral and berry flavors are tasty.--1985 California Cabernet retrospective. Drink now. –JL