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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.8 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Mattjcrawford on 12/23/2016 & rated 94 points: 1.5L Flag Bottle - popped and poured. This one took awhile to open up but was excellent after about an hour and a half. Drink up of you have any of these special bottles - love Sherwin! (2036 views) | | | Tasted by Bob in NC on 12/25/2015 & rated 95 points: A most delicious wine that is drinking great right now and went perfectly with our Christmas dinner rib roast. (1959 views) | | | Tasted by ArtF on 12/31/2011 & rated 95 points: Dramatic way to welcome the New Year with family. Might improve a little over the next few years, but drinking very well now with just a pop and pour. Great with steak. (3643 views) | | | Tasted by KHILL on 1/20/2009 & rated 95 points: A big, earthy, spicy cab. Tannic and a little oak. Drank today for new President. Worth the price for today. (3855 views) | | | Tasted by Frank Murray III on 11/9/2008: Great, so I break ground on a wine in CT that lacks any TN history, of course, it has to be a cab. This was a beautiful bottle, etched with a colored american flag and gold lettering. Really classy. As for this magnum, was brough by Dean, who indicated he almost brought the 2001 instead, which I think would have been a better call, adding the value of age. This 2004 was pretty tight. My notes say "good future ahead" but the wine needs to energe out of the structure and youth. Cedar, plum, berry and currant. If you want to drink one of these, give it air or better, age another 3-4 years. (3735 views) |
| Sherwin Family Vineyards 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)Spring Mountain DistrictWikipedia article on the Spring Mountain Distric AVA. |
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