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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.5 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by Labrador on 10/12/2019 & rated 90 points: Sadly, this was my last bottle, but it was really good. It just goes to prove that the great CA cabs reward patience. With its aromatics and taste of bright red fruit, this wine held up throughout an early dinner and into the Saturday night festivities - Notre Dame defeating usc .... again. It showed on bit of dryness at the end of the bottle. A great wine and a great victory! (1054 views) | | Tasted by danielbleier on 8/11/2014 & rated 93 points: Chappellet Retrospective at TexSom: Bright, firm plum flavors - balanced with notes of tobacco and cedar (3099 views) | | Tasted by bajayngo on 4/23/2011: What a great bottle of wine! This is what I look for in an aged cab. Beautiful sour cherry & high toned red fruits, integrated spicy mature oak throwing notes of green olives and jalapeno's, tannins still kickin on the back end but very integrated. Slight mint and earth too. Great bottle. (3714 views) | | Tasted by JFish on 5/14/2010: TN from memory. Last bottle, found hidden. Fruit seemed a bit ripe and almost port-y at first. Decanted for an hour. Very nice, mature cab. Some leather, red currants, tannins nearly completely resolved. It held up for a few hours in the decanter until it was drained. If I had more I would drink in the near term. (4474 views) | | Tasted by JFish on 10/3/2008: Paired with grilled tri-tip. Leather and soy, red currants on the palate. A bit of tannin and acidity give it structure. I would guess just past prime and will drink my remaining bottle this winter. (4475 views) | | Tasted by tplskylrk on 8/8/2008: TWATS V; 8/8/2008-8/9/2008 (Château D' Stearns): Perfect color. Now famous TWATSA quote - “Has legs like a Bulgarian ladies shot putter & smells like Cat pee strained through her g string.” Nose of a Pig styie, leather. Dark deep finish, lingering. Room to grow. OK. Bold, old. Lemon Zest late on the great finish. Gab smacking. Late 90’s was the guess. Tim – Aussie.
Performed well despite simple mid range Cab from 91. Two nights later left out uncorked still holding together amazingly. Still deep stewed fruits. Nice finish, damn. This is good. (4422 views) | | Tasted by JFish on 12/1/2007: Paired with braised lamb shanks. On the nose, light currants, cherries and leather. The palate follows the nose. Very nice and at peak and a great pairing with the lamb. (2313 views) | | Tasted by irish87 on 6/10/2007 & rated 92 points: Nicely developed, smooth. A fair amount of fruit left. Not really developing a lot of complexity. Balanced, tannins completely integrated. Nice bottle. (2417 views) |
| Chappellet 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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