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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.1 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by Tonyboons33 on 12/27/2022 & rated 93 points: Previous tasting note is spot on. In a really good place right now. Enjoyed with Xmas dinner, strip roast. (500 views) | | Tasted by Odedis.Wine.reviews on 11/19/2021 & rated 93 points: This is a delicious Cabernet Sauvignon from the great 2012 vintage.
Showing a strong and delicious nose.
Full bodied, smooth and elegant, with medium acidity.
Dry on the palate and very fruity with blackberries, coffee, chocolates, tobacco, licorice, vanilla, cedar, cola and black pepper.
Good right out of the bottle and better as it opens up, and shows the complexity.
This 9 year old is very enjoyable now, and will continue to drink nicely in the next 5 years.
Nicely balanced with a great mouthfeel. Rich, yet elegant. Fruit forward with nice complexity.
Good by itself or with food. I paired it with a delicious Charcuterie board.
15.3% alcohol by volume.
93 points.
$160 (current vintage). (813 views) | | Tasted by melal41 on 12/8/2018 & rated 94 points: Finally got this one to open at friend's birthday. Basically insisted on it. Bought 4 bottles on auction and here we go. P&P with great nose emerging right from the start. Everyone at the table was impressed. I took time to take a first sip, let it air in the glass. The taste was special. Very classy wine, not big and fruity but nicely delineated, structured, very long finish. Drink or hold. I wonder how top wines from this winery taste like. (2122 views) | | Tasted by thesandersfamily on 4/19/2017 & rated 90 points: Purchased this wine based on a recommendation from a friend. Out of curiosity we decided to pop a bottle when it arrived - hopefully the remaining bottles will improve with time. The initial nose is alcohol, tart cherry and a hint of pepper, much more like a Shiraz than a cab. The sourness mellowed after about an hour. Color is ruby to garnet intone with the clarity of a Pinot - get where I'm going with this? Just didn't hit the California cab mark for me at all, nothing rich, bold, jammy or big about it. There is no information provided or to be found regarding the blend which I find odd. Too many great options at this price point for me to want more. I would love to try one of the earlier vintages to see what all of the hype was about. (2749 views) |
| Ghost Horse 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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