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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 22 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Jahull03 on 12/5/2019: In my view this is tasting young with plenty of life ahead - certainly fruit and oak rounding out a dark tobacco cab palate. Plenty of tannin and I didn’t feel anything was missing - though there is a touch of heat.
Maybe other tasters are right and it’s on its last legs - but that’s not my impression at all. I think this is halfway there and will be better as the fruit and oak integrate. (773 views) | | | Tasted by AllRed on 6/22/2019 & rated 89 points: 4th Saturday group uptown tasting (M&R's): Double blind. Perfumed and bright, with blackberry, cherry and raspberry as well. Dark fruit, spice and plum with a medium+ finish. Starts to show some alcoholic heat as it sits. Guessed Napa cab sauv. (1194 views) | | | Tasted by Mark1npt on 6/28/2018 & rated 89 points: Pnp cold out of the chiller....dark, dark ruby in the glass with a narrow medium ruby edge. Nose is somewhat restrained with a sweet floral/fruit mix (rose petal/violet?) component. Entry is mid weight on the palate, plenty of dark red berries, smooth integrated tannins with a touch of oak, dark chocolate and some mild menthol at the end. There is some acidity left to cover perhaps another 2 years.
An hour in, with the wine warming to room temp.....a little bit of lead pencil/briar emerges, the red fruit darkens a little more and a very faint oxidative dark plum/raisin emerges. A nice wine but not much depth nor many layers there. Just a tad flat. (1986 views) | | | Tasted by garrigue65 on 9/9/2017 & rated 88 points: Mono demenional with some out of balance alcohol. Perhaps needs a long decant (1529 views) | | | Tasted by Bonsingers on 3/25/2017: Great with lamb! (1887 views) | | | Tasted by galewskj on 1/29/2017 & rated 89 points: Couple's Dinner (Jason's House): Decanted at least an hour, drank a small glass over about an hour at a tasting. This bottle seemed to be a serviceable and straight-up cabernet. It did not have much sophistication or complexity. The couple that brought it reported that a previous bottle was a much better showing. Nothing wrong with this, but this bottle didn't deliver on its expectation. 88-89 (1595 views) | | | Tasted by Rezy13 on 6/14/2014: Saturday Night New World Double Blind, $40+ (Bin 75): Very dark core with garnet rim; green pepper, tobacco, cedar, plum skin, piney, some glycerin, leads with fruit rather than oak; ripe yet good structure, red and black currant, tannic, ash and smoke on the finish, slightly spicy; very good. (2845 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 8/15/2013 & rated 92 points: Very dark ruby color; appealing, ripe black currant, blackberry nose; creamy textured, ripe black currant, blackberry palate; medium-plus finish (98% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Merlot; 28 months in French oak, 83% new) 92+ points (408 views) |
| St. Supéry Producer web siteCabernet 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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