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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.1 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 39 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Whine-oh on 9/13/2018 & rated 92 points: P n P tableside at rest. No sed. No bricking. Good to go out of the bottle. solild new world cab. Great nose and palate, no flaws. Tannins soft and just present to give wine added structure. Our wine of the nite, in a lineup of an 83 Mond Res and an 05 Reignac. Finished half way thru dinner, left wanting for more. (1010 views) | | | Tasted by Acohen on 9/3/2017 & rated 92 points: Nice mature rich cab with good cassis, currant and tobacco notes (1304 views) | | | Tasted by jhemming on 7/12/2015 & rated 92 points: Great bottle. Typical cab aromatics with cassis, dried tobacco and some mint. Bright fruit but not overripe. Balanced with savory secondary flavors. Fine dusty tannins with medium + finish and enough acidity to keep it focused. (2470 views) | | | Tasted by MillerRoad on 3/10/2015 & rated 91 points: Wow, this wine is still singing. (2153 views) | | | Tasted by Surfdoc on 9/28/2012 & rated 89 points: Fruit forward blueberry, blackberry and eucalyptus flavors with soft tannins. Finish is relatively short and a bit sharp with some alcohol heat that throws off the wine's balance. (3775 views) | | | Tasted by Rich S on 9/3/2012 & rated 92 points: Medium purple color. Intense nose of blueberry pie and cassis. Similar flavors on the palate with some vanilla oak and roasted plums. Medium acid and chewy tannins with a long finish. Really well balanced wine and paired great with a grilled ribeye. (2845 views) | | | Tasted by DuaneT on 8/30/2012: Big and fruity, fairly straightforward. Drank well on day one, but fell apart on day 2.
I would call this a "good to serve to dinner guests" wine. (2545 views) | | | Tasted by winecharmer on 8/29/2012 & rated 92 points: Wow, over a year since my last go-round with this one. It benefited from the time in bottle. Decanted 1 hour at a restaurant. Huge fruit on initial pop that mellowed and integrated nicely. Incredibly smooth on the palette with just enough tannic grip to hang with a very fatty pork belly dinner at Salt in Baltimore. Easy drinking, and probably could have kept decanting but for it tasting too good to just let it sit there. Good QPR. (2094 views) | | | Tasted by The Wine Write on 2/1/2012 & rated 90 points: Popped & poured, drank over 3 nights. Deep cherry color. Tight initially, giving black fruit and minty notes. Black cherries on the palate, with some earthiness and pepper on the finish. Nice bottle. (2210 views) | | | Tasted by curtispomeroy on 1/15/2012 & rated 91 points: Drank beautifully over two nights. Will buy again with new release. (1436 views) | | | Tasted by Jmartin on 1/11/2012: Excellent Cab. Have been loving the Sojourn Pinots and if this cab is any indication will be thrilled with those as well. (1374 views) | | | Tasted by Wine'in Brian on 12/12/2011: Did not spend a lot of time with this one as it was a pre-dinner conversation before heading out. Signature blueberry nose right off the first splash into the decanter. We drank this after about an hour in the decanter - but in hindsight, I would decant it a bit longer. Blueberry nose gave way to cedar, mint and dark fruits in the mouth, with fresh acidity. I don't see the need for long-term cellaring, but I would give it more than a little air to be enjoyed fully. (1769 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Sparty on 7/13/2011 & rated 90 points: Decanted for about an hour and a half before drinking with burgers off the grill. Aroma of black licorice, leather and dark fruits. Taste has blackberry and black cherry, pretty fruit forward with a medium amount of tannins. This seems to be drinking decently at this point, but not sure it is going to improve much over the next few years. (1752 views) | | | Tasted by winopops3 on 5/22/2011 & rated 91 points: Very nice fruit, decent complexity, moderate finish. Very balanced. (1915 views) | | | Tasted by winecharmer on 4/24/2011: Popped and poured, only because there wasn't a decanter in the vacation house. Definitely needed a long decant as it took a good hour in glass to blossom at all. Very tight, minty, and eucalyptus nose. Some sediment, and plenty of tannins and acid. Delicious over time, as the chocolate and blue fruits emerged, but definitely needed more air than I could give to it. Will reserve scoring until the next go-round. Ready to drink but with at least an hour decant. (2000 views) | | | Tasted by ScottGoodwin on 3/19/2011 & rated 92 points: Extremely pure expression of clean black and blue fruits. Blackberry, currant and blueberries. No overt oak. Nimble but full and satisfying. Still has a long life ahead. No mint or herbs or cedar - pure fruit. Some people will knock this wine as not being very complex but this is what I want in a wine - purity of fruit and a sense of place. (1963 views) | | | Tasted by winosis3 on 3/11/2011 & rated 91 points: Delicious (2336 views) | | | Tasted by ListenToMeWine on 12/25/2010 & rated 90 points: A nice fruit forward effort. Dark fruit, cassis and a nice mouthfeel. (2300 views) | | | Tasted by jjmabaseb on 11/5/2010 & rated 91 points: dark fruit, blueberry, licorice; good tannins an a long finish (2464 views) | | | Tasted by jcha24 on 9/13/2010 & rated 91 points: thought this wine lacked a bit of the intensity that i enjoyed the first time around. dark fruit on the nose and palate. developed some rounder flavors on day 2 with some chocolate hints. good bottle. (2634 views) | | | Tasted by lsnider on 7/22/2010 flawed bottle: Slightly corked bottle, the other bottle of it I had I thought was a really good cab and was looking forward to this one. Have already emailed Craig and he is going to replace the bottle. They are top notch with CS. (2814 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 6/25/2010 & rated 93 points: 2010 Pinot Days Grand Tasting (plus trade tasting); 6/25/2010-6/27/2010 (Fort Mason, San Francisco, California): Nice cassis, mint nose; rich cassis, mint, approachable palate; medium-plus finish 93+ pts. (4745 views) | | | Tasted by pchubb on 5/30/2010 & rated 90 points: very tight compared to a tasting of this i had at sojourn a month ago. with 3-4 hours it started to open a little. nonetheless still a very good cab. (3093 views) | | | Tasted by whits on 5/29/2010 & rated 91 points: nice bouquet of truffles, chocolate, and berries, rich, dark flavors of currants, blueberries, espresso, and cassis, reminds me of Washington Cabernet Sauvignon, flavorful, drinking well now, will hold up and evolve for at least five years (2933 views) | | | Tasted by dhammer53 on 5/28/2010 & rated 91 points: You have to let this sit for a while after you open it. On pop and pour, nothing special. As the evening wore on, this started to get really good. At the 4 hour mark... wow! I didn't taste the blueberry mentioned on the bottle. Maybe a bit of vanilla? This is a very smooth wine, even better than the '06 I drank last summer. I think patience will be rewarded if you hold on to this for another 2 - 3 years. I'm not sorry that I opened this since I have more of Craigs wines resting comfortably at home. (3424 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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2007 Sojourn Cabernet Sauvignon Home Ranch Vineyard Producer fact sheet
2007 brought the third bottling from Craig's Sonoma Valley vineyard - its mature vines delivering balanced structure, while maintaining the rich, blueberry character Home Ranch fans have come to love. The wine manifests a classic Cabernet Sauvignon profile with aromas of cassis and sweet green tea along with ample structure and supple mouthfeel. Once again, the wine shows blueberries on the nose and a touch of mint imparted by a stand of eucalyptus trees. 150 cases producedCabernet 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountySonoma ValleySonoma County, California, is one of the most important winegrowing regions in the whole of the United States. Vines have been planted here since the 1850s and, apart from the inevitable hiatus brought about by Prohibition, the county's relationship with wine has been prolific and unbroken.
Viticulturally speaking, Sonoma County is divided into three distinct sections: Sonoma Valley, Northern Sonoma and Sonoma Coast. Each of these has its own AVA title and encompasses several sub-AVAs within its boundaries. |
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