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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.5 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by cblinstrub on 8/4/2021 & rated 98 points: Just wow. I remember tasting this in the tasting room in 2010 thinking it was special. I was worried sitting on a NV wine for 14 years, and was expecting autumnal fading primary fruit. Umm, it’s always humbling to be 100% wrong.
I PnP and it was a fruit bomb. Paired with a tri tip. Finally settled down about an hour in, where some acidity broke through. Tannins are fine and well integrated. A dominant plum, but blackberry and mint, with a touch of chocolate right behind it.
Need to see if I can discover another bottle. (596 views) | | | Tasted by tomoem on 10/13/2018 & rated 95 points: Had from a magnum. Huge nose of ripened berries and crushed grapes. As close to an aroma of Welches Grape juice that I found of late in a wine.
In mouth the wine is stunning. One of the great ones with rich and velvety fruits which hold with a backbone of balanced tannin and acidity. Long and lingering finish of mulberry, some asphalt, and tobacco leaf. This is a great wine. (913 views) | | | Tasted by Coachron13 on 4/26/2016 & rated 91 points: Drinking more like a left bank bordeaux than a Napa cab at this time. Earthiness is becoming dominant. Still a solid cab but the fruit is fading on it. (1218 views) | | | Tasted by sasvino on 1/13/2015 & rated 96 points: Big fruit forward cab, good balance and complexity...plenty of life to age but peak....mid 90s (2310 views) |
| James Cole Producer WebsiteCabernet 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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