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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.7 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by tjross on 4/29/2018 & rated 93 points: Drank a bunch of these last April while bumming it for a month in St. Helena. Thought it was a tasty wine then but the year smoothed out the rough edges, resulting in a better balanced wine. (3109 views) | | | Tasted by dclaggett on 12/21/2017 & rated 92 points: 14.8% abv. Dark plum purple, light rim. Massive in glass, Long slow staining of tears. Nose of brambly valley floor fruit, flowers, cinnamon buns, black licorice. Full mouthfeel, deep and full tannins all over. On the palate more dark fruits, cocoa, clove orange peel. Needs time or 4hr decant. (2654 views) | | | Tasted by #1Winelover on 11/3/2017 & rated 93 points: Haven't tried Behrens Family Wines for quite some time, and I was very impressed with Spare Me. The quality of the wine and the price paid was unbelievable. Not decanted, the color is rich purple and the fruit packs a punch! Mostly red with some black fruit (cherry, raspberry and blackberry), sweet tannins and slight traces of chocolate on the finish.
We had 4 bottles of wine and everyone kept coming back to this! 93-94 points and ready now. (4065 views) | | | Tasted by tjross on 4/21/2017 & rated 92 points: Similar notes to previous bottle. A bit too acidic, but overall a pleasure. (3822 views) | | | Tasted by tjross on 4/18/2017 & rated 92 points: A big wine at a nice Napa price. A bit acidic on the finish and in need of time or decanter hours, but otherwise a pleasing wine. (3766 views) |
| Behrens Family Winery 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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