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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.5 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by sam_rosato@hotmail.com on 8/5/2017 & rated 93 points: Excellent wine, tannins have softened, great lingering finish (1598 views) | | | Tasted by Barry Notes on 6/24/2017 & rated 93 points: See Schott note. (1632 views) | | | Tasted by schott on 6/17/2017 & rated 93 points: Served initially at cellar temp 55F (13C). Deep burgundy/violet - very opaque. Minimum residue in bottle. Long legs. Wonderful nose. Strong fruit - cherry, blackberry. Hints of bitters - chocolate or cola. Medium plus alcohol. Soft, plush, well integrated tannins. Long finish. Excellent now, but has much more life left in it. 92-94 pts. 100% Cabernet, Alexander Valley. (1700 views) | | | Tasted by 70Tondonia on 5/21/2016 & rated 91 points: At this point the wine is showing a tremendous amount of heat and moderate tannins and acid. It is medium to full bodied and exhibits both jammy red fruit and black fruit. Long finish. Best to decant for a couple of hours before drinking. Give this one a few more years of cellaring. (2289 views) | | | Tasted by BeaverBob on 8/3/2014 & rated 93 points: Took a while to open up, but after that look out. Some leather, tobacco, and dark fruit on the nose. A little tannic on the palette, smoothed out during the evening and drank exceptionally well. (3237 views) | | | Tasted by GTFreek on 11/7/2013: 100% Cab. Nose shows baking spice, black cherry, blackberry. Palate is delicious combo of approachable fruit, layers of black fruit, oak layers, cassis, dark chocolate, velvet tannins of medium plus intensity. Medium plus finish. Very good wine. Should really be singing in a couple of years. (2249 views) |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, The Best of Sonoma (Feb 2012)
(Rodney Strong Cabernet Sauvignon Brothers Ridge Alexander Valley) Subscribe to see review text. |
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Tom Klein
Proprietor
A fourth generation California farmer, Tom earned a business degree from Stanford and spent the first part of his career as a management consultant at the San Francisco office of the prestigious global management firm McKinsey & Company. One project during this time was evaluating a small winery in the Russian River Valley called Rodney Strong Vineyards and, in a chance meeting, he was introduced to founder Rod Strong and winemaker Rick Sayre. Already developing an interest in wine, this encounter planted a seed that would grow into a lifelong passion.
Rick Sayre
Head Winemaker
Rick began his winemaking career at the age of 19 as an assistant winemaker and cellar master at Simi Winery in Sonoma County. He had the opportunity to train under the world-renowned winemaster André Tchelistcheff, who instilled in his young trainee a deep passion for the art of winemaking and a desire to not only master his craft, but continually push the boundaries of creativity. “André taught me that a winemaker must live with his wine,” Rick recalls, “from walking the vineyards to the careful craft of guiding the wine into bottle. Even the smallest details can have a lasting effect.”
When Rod Strong decided to take a step back from the demanding role of winemaker, he called upon Rick Sayre, who joined the team at Rodney Strong Vineyards in 1979. In more than three decades in the cellars, Rick has guided the wine collection to include world-class Reserve, Symmetry and Single-Vineyard releases, an outstanding line of Estate wines and best-in-class Sonoma County wines that continue to please vintage after vintage. His voracious appetite for new winemaking knowledge has taken him around the world, including trips to the wine regions of France, Australia, New Zealand and Spain
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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyAlexander Valley Alexander Valley Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia
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