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| Drinking window: Drink between 2008 and 2014 (based on 7 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.4 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by aaronwine on 11/12/2014 & rated 92 points: Fantastic. Seems to be holding in a nice spot with plenty of fruit and depth. (1151 views) | | | Tasted by Mdorsch on 5/30/2011 & rated 91 points: Very smooth and balanced. Excellent with steak dinner. Was better an hour after opening (2177 views) | | | Tasted by aaronwine on 4/16/2011 & rated 90 points: Very nice. As expected, much smoother and more refined than I remember from four years ago. Evolved in glass over hour and a half. Drink now. (2263 views) | | | Tasted by B&PBaker on 12/25/2009 & rated 91 points: Beautiful silky smooth (2398 views) | | | Tasted by Outplaying on 2/5/2009: Friends sharing good wines (Ann's, Avondale, PA): Chocolate, hints of bell pepper and intense fruit on the nose. Rich, with nice fruit, balanced tannins and acidity. Very good. One of my favorites of the night. (3132 views) | | | Tasted by olm2000 on 1/11/2007 & rated 86 points: too much oak for my palate...little acidic as well (1939 views) |
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From a long-term family of vineyard owners and farmers, in 1998, Ken Laird and his family broke ground for the Laird Family Estate winery and production facility. Offering one of the most technologically advanced production facilities in the region, renowned winemakers and wineries began lining up to produce and cellar their wines at Laird: Bob Egelhoff, Mia Klein, Paul Hobbs, Steve Test, Mark Aubert, Celia Masyczek, Colgin, Selene, Cornerstone and Crichton Hall to name but a few of past and current clients. Their own label offers up artisanal quality wines made under the watchful eye of none other than Paul Hobbs as consulting winemaker.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)Rutherford Rutherford,
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