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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.9 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by MC2 Wines on 2/7/2023: Napa 2023: the quieter version; 2/6/2023-2/11/2023 (Napa/Sonoma California): Side by side with a Palmer of the same year to do our own mini Judgment of Paris. This was fun. Opened and decanted for sediment and then rebottled. Spent about 5 hours in a cooler before getting toted around as we walked around for a few hours before dinner. Just like the Bordeaux this was totally ready for business by the time we got to dinner. Darker fruited and still very much fruited and more secondary style and really just a special wine. From a rather large lot of old Mount Veeders and if they are all like this I am a happy camper. (1043 views) | | | Tasted by englishman's claret on 11/14/2021 & rated 90 points: Like the 79, this offers a purely black fruit profile but here it is demure and accompanied by a little dill, mint, and thyme. Clean, lightish, but nice palate. (1316 views) | | | Tasted by RockinCabs on 11/14/2021 & rated 92 points: Wow. So fresh here. Nice black fruit, dark cherry, pencil and mint. Done as a side by side with the 1979, and this was just lacked the saturation and power to get to the next level. However, on its own this is an exceptional classic Mt Veeder wine. (603 views) | | | Tasted by austinbeeman- austinbeeman.com on 1/4/2019 & rated 96 points: Tasted out of Magnum.
Masterful. A beautiful aged wine with layers of complex melted blackberry and cassis. Lots of beautiful integrated tannins and gorgeous underbrush and forrest floor. (970 views) | | | Tasted by pmevans on 12/2/2013 & rated 91 points: Didn't take detailed notes, but had at Fred's birthday dinner. Drank from a mag, still holding up well, good fruit, drink sooner rather than later especially from a 750. (2051 views) | | | Tasted by lepetitchateau on 5/2/2013 & rated 84 points: Weedy nose. Fruity but totally uninteresting wine. (1700 views) | | | Tasted by ginfizz on 8/15/2012 & rated 92 points: Brick red with clear meniscus. Minty, herbal nose with raspberries, touch of cassis, tobacco. Crisp in the mouth with good weight and concentration. Delicious. Medium finish. From a magnum. (1721 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 8/7/2009 & rated 93 points: Cabernet themed "European Lunch" (Donato Enoteca, Redwood City, California): A little cloudy, bricking, dark raspberry red color with clear meniscus; maturing, herbal, dill, cassis nose; tasty, maturing, tart cassis, plum palate with roundness, very appealing; medium finish 93+ pts. (1234 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 7/17/2008 & rated 88 points: 1978 Cabernets (and Cab Blends) - Retrospective Tasting (Palo Alto, California): Group's #2 (my #4) – 41 pts; 3 1st place votes, 3 2nd place votes, 3 thirds, 0 last places – Dark brick red color with pale meniscus; nice tobacco, mint and tart cassis nose; mature, tart red fruit with an herbal edge and high acidity; medium finish 88+ pts. (1300 views) |
| Mount Veeder 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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