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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.6 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 16 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Kmgordon on 1/9/2013 & rated 90 points: Smooth tannins. Currant and plum. Very long and satisfying finish. Drink now. (3642 views) | | | Tasted by Richard Levine on 5/29/2011 & rated 90 points: Black with long vegetable tannic woody finish. The 1% cab franc helps. Improved as sat in glass. (4365 views) | | | Tasted by flashvictor on 8/27/2010 & rated 92 points: Deep ruby color leads to a text book Napa cab nose of dark fruit, currant, and vanilla. Initially very tight palate but opened up nicely after about 2 hours to reveal beautiful dark cherry, candied plum, vanilla and a hint of tobacco. Finish lasts 35 seconds. At a very good place now and I suspect has at least 5 more years at this plateau. One of best wines I ever tasted for Cakebread. (4567 views) | | | Tasted by johnclark on 12/23/2007: Has matured nicely. It finished very sooth. I havent had a bottle in 2 years and the softening is great. (5714 views) | | | Tasted by csconlan on 11/17/2006: Very Nice. Still could wait a little. (5924 views) |
| Cakebread Cellars Producer website
Over 30 years ago, Jack Cakebread came to photograph the Napa Valley for a book and while there, he casually mentioned his interest in one day owning a vineyard to some family friends who had a ranch in Rutherford. When he returned home that afternoon, the phone rang and it was the family friends offering to sell their property. He headed back up to the valley that same afternoon to make his best offer, and Cakebread Cellars was born. As the Cakebread family reflects upon the many profound changes in the wine industry over the last 33 years, such as innovative farming techniques and new methods of reaching out to consumers, they note that their key values have remained the same. Dedication to making the highest quality wines and a commitment to family has followed a continuum as their first small vineyard has grown into a thriving internationally distributed wine company.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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Howell Mountain Howell Mountain |
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