External search
Google (images)
Wine Advocate
Wine Spectator
Burghound
Wine-Searcher
Vintages
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
From this producer
Show all wines
All tasting notes
|
| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.8 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 23 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by slapsht007 on 12/25/2022 & rated 81 points: This was sooooo good! Not going to say anymore. (430 views) | | | Tasted by ScottPreston on 6/20/2022 & rated 93 points: For those that like a more elegant style vs flabby fruit bombs. Still a touch young, but probably just entering its window, should drink well over the next decade. Great velvety black/blue fruits. Very well made. (517 views) | | | Tasted by Teaky on 4/10/2020: Nose is of raspberry, blackberry, cedar and mint nose is almost port like, flavors are big, nothing subtle about this, bramble, some strawberry, black cherry, some leather at the end, very fine tannins, low acid, is nice. With the first whiff of this you know this is a Napa cab. It’s big and bold and has a long finish, reminds me of a beringer private reserve I once had. Don’t think this is one to age, is probably at its most enjoyable now. (1221 views) | | | Tasted by OldHick95 on 2/14/2020 & rated 91 points: Aroma is dark ripe plums and a whiff of spearmint and tar. Chewy tannins tend to obscure soft strawberry and tart cranberry flavors which are very enjoyable when you find them. Black tea acidity lingers on the finish. (1147 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 7/27/2018: July 2018 Switchback Ridge Visit (At Phifer Pavitt): Bitter chocolate, currant and good structure. And, it gives me a sense that there is Cab varietal here, as it's not weighed down by bigger, modern touches. The red and back fruit pops nicely. Enjoyed this wine. (2825 views) | | | Tasted by GoBlue2002 on 2/4/2018 & rated 90 points: Napa Valley Tastings; 2/3/2018-2/4/2018: Tasted at the Phifer Pavitt tasting room.
Tasted with the 2014, which we both preferred.
Mocha, slightly chewy, brighter red/dark fruits. Needs a few years to round out.
Me - 91, Wife - 90 (2308 views) | | | Tasted by Petrusha on 2/3/2018: Visited winery in Napa, fall 2016.
one of our absolute favorite wines (1951 views) | | | Tasted by W2WineGuy on 10/31/2017 & rated 88 points: I want to really like it, but just not getting me there. Soft, very jammy, not a long finish. On second day, chalky and acidic. Good, not great. Love the story, so of course, the wife likes the wine! (1953 views) | | | Tasted by brianofthevine on 7/22/2017 & rated 88 points: Slightly disappointing to what I was expecting. Very jammy red fruit up front which almost overpowers the back end of the wine. (1783 views) | | | Tasted by tb76 on 7/3/2017: Deep color, good dark fruit, blackberry, plum, fruit is highlighted with acidity and tanning taking a back seat. Enjoyable wine if you are a fan of this style. 90. (1256 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 |
|
