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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.2 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Curt Jacques on 8/31/2023 & rated 94 points: Over a decade since the last tasting note, and four years since I drank it last, this wine is absolutely singing. Integrated sinky tannins, fruit is still showing, and a never-ending finish. I have one bottle left.
Hats off to Stu, Jack, and Doug, all legends. (135 views) | | | Tasted by grapemaven on 6/6/2012 & rated 88 points: This wine is shutting down. Jury is out as to how this will age if it is anything like the Continuum which is hit and miss depending on the vintage. (4820 views) | | | Tasted by elamasters on 12/3/2011 & rated 89 points: This is the ninth bottle of this I have opened, and the past three or four just have not been as good as the first few. It seems to have lost a lot of the complexity and depth that the first bottles had. It seems more thin on the palate. At first I thought it was just bottle variation, but each of the last few bottles has been consistenlty the same. Perhaps it is just shutting down for a while. I think I will let the remaining four bottles sit for a few more years before opening another one. (5075 views) | | | Tasted by babnik on 8/2/2011 & rated 92 points: Balanced and delicious... elegantly walking the line between Napa boldness and Old World sophistication. Ripe plum, cedar, tea leaves, restrained oak, medium weight and finish. Drinking well right now but there is no rush... this wine will be long lived. (5711 views) | | | Tasted by amateurwino on 5/5/2011 & rated 93 points: A very tasty cab - wasn't as old-school as the winemakers' "this is your father's cabernet" manifesto seems to imply, at least to my palate, but this reminded me quite a bit of some good vintages of Mondavi Reserve cab that I've had in the past. The fruit is full and lush without being over the top, and leans toward the purple fruit end of the spectrum. There's a bit of peppery spice here too, giving this some zip. Tasted over 4 days, and the deliciousness lasted throughout, boding well for at least medium-term ageability. Fruit is from the Lewelling Estate, but personally I preferred this wine compared to the 2007 Lewelling cab. Balance-wise, makes me think a bit of the 2006 or 2008 Rivers-Marie cabs as well. A really nice find for cab lovers. 92-94 points. (5657 views) | | | Tasted by elamasters on 2/19/2011 & rated 94 points: This is really one of the very best cabs I've had in recent memory. Perfect balance and great complexity. Refined and finessed. Layers of flavor without too much weight. (5851 views) |
| Trivium 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)St. Helena Appellation Napa Valley
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