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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 49 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by alliegs on 9/13/2015: Smokey and full but still light. Wouldn't wait much longer on this one. Lucky it's still good!! (2288 views) | | | Tasted by ldietrich25 on 4/29/2015: It was very good. (2477 views) | | | Tasted by Winegirl1959 on 9/1/2014 & rated 92 points: It was worth waiting for. Aged very well! Wish I had more... (3005 views) | | | Tasted by QBall on 2/16/2014 & rated 90 points: Quite enjoyable. Velvety and well balanced right now. (3611 views) | | | Tasted by SCosgrove on 1/6/2014 & rated 92 points: Loved this wine, smokey and full. (3558 views) | | | Tasted by pdicorpo on 12/23/2013 & rated 92 points: The wine was perfect for drinking - it got better over the two days we enjoyed it. i wouldn't wait much longer on this vintage. (1809 views) | | | Tasted by Jamijo on 6/15/2013 & rated 88 points: Although Cakebread has become more of a celebrity than its wine credits to merit, this is a strong Syrah and drinks decently. Dark fruit and spice. (1755 views) | | | Tasted by dkeyes on 12/3/2012 & rated 91 points: This wine is NOT in its drinking window yet. It is a huge fruit/tannin/alcohol/acid bomb right now. Nearly undrinkable. Left it decanted overnight and it was wonderful next day. This should be kept for a few more years. Might be excellent in 2015. (2484 views) | | | Tasted by RJandGB on 5/23/2012 & rated 85 points: Very good but teetering on the edge of good. I think this should have been consumed a while ago. It is light in flavor for a syrah - smooth and I almost thought had a chalky taste-sort of like it was over 'fined and filtered'. Opened quickly and faded fast. We've got an '08 and we're hitting that soon. We recently tasted the '09 and it had a lot more going for it, which may simply be youth. I don't think this is made to age and ratings would have been higher on release. (2441 views) | | | Tasted by xwine on 4/30/2012: Wow! This has it all. Everything. At least everything I hate about all these high alcohol, oak-slathered bombs that seem to plague the wine industry. Nose is nothing but oak and blackberry concentrate. It goes in the mouth like blackberry syrup and finishes like someone set off an acetylene blowtorch in my throat. The "flavors" are simply gag inducing. Unbalanced and, in a word, awful. (2413 views) | | | Tasted by n2wine on 2/14/2012 & rated 91 points: Part of our valentines dinner. Really opened up after 30 minutes. Was an excellent pair with our baked hot chocolate dessert. Burnt oak on the nose. Slightly hot with pepper and dark fruits. Smooth tannins. (2561 views) | | | Tasted by n2wine on 1/15/2012 & rated 88 points: Very light bodied for a syrah. Pepper and vanilla flavors. Light tannins. Drink now. (2660 views) | | | Tasted by DSR on 2/14/2011 & rated 91 points: Another excellent effort from Cakebread. (2796 views) | | | Tasted by RobertDwyer on 12/23/2009 & rated 90 points: A perfect high-alcohol wine to hunker down with during a snow storm. Best of blind tasting among 6 new world Syrahs. Dark. Opaque purple. Big. Guessed it was Aussie, but it's not. Chalky tannins. A little hot, but like I said- perfect for a snow storm. Enjoy! (4142 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| 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.Syrah Varietal article (Wikipedia) | (Wines Northwest)
Note that some producers in the Northern Rhone distinguish between simply Syrah and "Serine", the latter described as ‘an ancient clone of Syrah, the berries of which are more oval-shaped and less deeply pigmented than Syrah’ by producer Tardieu-Laurent. USAAmerican 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 / SonomaSONOMA: The Yorkville Highlands AVA, approved in 1998, is located in the southwestern corner of Mendocino County, between Sonoma County's Alexander Valley to the South and Mendocino County!s Anderson Valley to the North. The region is 25 miles long, roughly in the shape of rectangle and bisected by Highway 128 which runs the length of the AVA. The region!s terrain is hilly and forested, with elevations ranging from 1,078 to 2,442 feet above sea level.
The distinguishing features of the Yorkville Highlands AVA are rocky soils with a high gravel content and the climate, which is cooler than Alexander Valley but warmer than Anderson Valley, and significantly cooler at night than the surrounding areas.CarnerosStraddles the southern ends of Napa & Sonoma Counties. |
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