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| Drinking window: Drink between 2013 and 2023 (based on 2 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by dave smigielski on 8/29/2014: Pop n Poured with dinner. enjoyed over the course of 1.5 hours. This was tried first, then we tried 'Simone' Simone was approachable from the pull of the cork and we finished it before Sydnee started to open up. As with previous notes, the dark fruit and tannins are there and still a bit edgy. As her namesake ages and the rough edges smooth out, so will this wine. Hold for 5+ years. I will revisit again in another year. (2109 views) | | | Tasted by GalvezGuy on 6/8/2014 & rated 91 points: Decanted one hour. Nice nose of red and black fruits along with nice whiff of spices. On the palate, pure fruit with red plum, blackberry, cinnamon, tobacco, and spicy oak. Finishes with substantial grip. Probably needs another year or two to fully integrate the oak, but this has a very old school Napa feel to it. (1808 views) | | | Tasted by Eric on 4/30/2013 & rated 88 points: Faintly herbal notes on the nose, perhaps sporting a touch of slightly raw oak. A red fruited palate, seamless and pure, licorice and vanilla, moving to spicy cinnamon red hots. Wonderfully dusty tannins that gently coat the palate without clamping down too hard. For me the oak is quite prominent at this stage, but there is a lot of lovely raw material here. I still have half a bottle to revisit after a day of air. (4333 views) | | | Tasted by Tim Heaton on 2/21/2013: PnP generously shared by beachrooster. My notes are consistent with aagrawal's experience. This is unmistakably Napa, but I mean that in the best of ways. Classy, spicy, herbal, delicate and harmonious. A very tasty wine that should hit peak in roughly 2-3 years. As with the other wines I've tasted from Decalier, this project's underlying fruit has an excellent purity and shows skillful blending. Give this 2 hours aeration in decanter if drinking anytime soon. Drink thru 2021, reccomended (2518 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 11/17/2012 & rated 89 points: Fall 2012 San Francisco Vintners Market (Fort Mason Festival Pavillon, San Francisco, California): Very dark red violet color; menthol, tobacco, loam nose; rich, poised, tobacco, loam, chocolate palate; medium-plus finish (1073 views) | | | Tasted by aagrawal on 8/25/2012 & rated 93 points: Dinner with Mike Grammer (Pera, San Francisco): Spicy, herbal (like some cab franc), black pepper; clean, precise palate, very young, tannic; nice clean finish. This was excellent, and I preferred the Sydnee to the Simone. (3687 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 8/25/2012 & rated 90 points: WineBerserkers Offline with Mike Grammar (Pera Restaurant, San Francisco, California): Very dark red violet color; tart black currant, clove, blackberry nose; plush, ripe blackberry, black currant palate; needs 1-2 years; medium-plus finish (1701 views) | | | Tasted by Loren Sonkin on 3/4/2012 & rated 91 points: Lots of great Cabs, Syrahs and others NVW&C (Napa Valley Wine & Cigar): This is young but very good. A project of Dave Smig (Decalier) named after one of his daughters. Soft texture but very tannic at this stage, give it a few more years. Lots of black cherry fruit and a bit of gravel. Tight layering. I would like to revisit it, its hard to get a good handle on a wine this young and tight in this type of setting. I don't think a lot was made but worth checking into for sure. (2961 views) |
| By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (11/17/2012)
(Five/Five Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Sydnee 85% Ink Grade, 15% Gerlach Ranch) Very dark red violet color; menthol, tobacco, loam nose; rich, poised, tobacco, loam, chocolate palate; medium-plus finish 89 points | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (8/25/2012)
(Five/Five Wines Cabernet Sauvignon Sydnee 85% Ink Grade, 15% Gerlach Ranch) Very dark red violet color; tart black currant, clove, blackberry nose; plush, ripe blackberry, black currant palate; needs 1-2 years; medium-plus finish 90 points |
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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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