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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.3 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by OldHick95 on 11/8/2020 & rated 93 points: Tonight, the vanilla and warm baking spices were a bit more pronounced, no doubt because of a variety of food it was accompanying. You can really appreciate the way the oak compliments the cherry and chocolate core of the wine. (950 views) | | | Tasted by OldHick95 on 8/29/2020 & rated 93 points: Smooth and excellently balanced. Red fruit juice. Toasty sugar flavors like overdone sugar cookies with vanilla and warm spice. Gentle cherry and milk chocolate on the finish. Marvelous. (863 views) | | | Tasted by tb76 on 6/17/2017: Medium ruby, blackberry, blueberry, eucalyptus, vanilla, spice, plum, fig, smooth, moderate tannin, low acid, personally I would drink on the early side and enjoy in its youth. 90 (2174 views) | | | Tasted by ScottPreston on 1/1/2016 & rated 93 points: I thought this wine was spectacular despite a tough vintage. In a blind tasting i might mistake for Paulliac. Great nose that balances tar, charcoal with great dark berries. Great balance on the palate with a 15-20 second finish. I didn't decant. I think this wine would warrant a higher score even than a 93, but i do question its ability to age gracefully in such a tough vintage. (2471 views) | | | Tasted by Achim on 5/28/2015: A nice treat after a long trip. (2774 views) | | | Tasted by Martin Redmond on 12/21/2014 & rated 93 points: Ruby color with lifted appealing cassis, black cherry, violets, tobacco, caramel, sweet spice aromas along hints of eucalyptus, and cedarwood. On the palate, it's medium-bodied, persistent and fresh with a silky texture and black cherry, plum, cassis, graphite,tobacco, and spice flavors. Long finish. (2549 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 10/31/2014 & rated 91 points: Bright dark ruby-purple color. Nose of deep currants and black cherries along with cola, damp earth, sweet violets, caramel and clove. Juicy acid on the palate, moderately firm tannins, a smooth and enticing mouthfeel. Flavors of roasted figs, bright currants, black cherries, laced with smoke, graphite, tobacco, caramel, roasted chestnut and anise. A smoky herbal note on a long finish. Rich and age-worthy yet it’s smooth, fresh and food-friendly. 18 months in 75% new French oak barrels. (2409 views) |
| Phifer Pavitt Producer website
Proprietors: Suzanne Phifer Pavitt and Shane Pavitt
Winemaker: Ted Osborne
Vineyards: Phifer Pavitt sources its grapes from Temple Family Vineyards’ Lakespring Ranch in Napa Valley. Vineyard manager Arthur Spencer designed and planted this vineyard ten years ago and farms it organically, producing small, intensely flavorful berries. The vineyard sits at 670 feet, in loam soil, with the vines spaced at 7x5. The farming incorporates many features which support its organic dedication---barn owl boxes, indigenous legume cover crop for beneficial insects and soil fertility, ladybug plantings and night harvesting.
The Winery: Phifer Pavitt Wines is a dream of Suzanne Phifer and Shane Pavitt, who moved to the Napa Valley in 2001 and over the course of several years of ‘date nights,’ hatched the idea of their own Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
Production: approximately 300 cases a year
Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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