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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.2 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by hsunch@yahoo.com on 7/25/2023 & rated 94 points: I loved this wine. Super complex with great balance. Too bad I've held on to it a tad too long, it has developed a tiny bit of funk. It a distraction, still a great wine. (214 views) | | | Tasted by Topper on 3/16/2020 & rated 92 points: Enjoyed this much more two years ago. Either starting to fall apart or this was just not a great bottle. What's missing is the sweet part of the fruit. There was nice structure and gripping tannins but the overall impression was one of tartness. Not representative of bottles that I've had before but I don't have any left so will wait for the next cellar tracker to weigh in. (943 views) | | | Tasted by Rick 4 Wine on 5/7/2019: I am a bit disappointed with this wine. I realize these were still early days for Fairchild but this Sigaro does not drink as I imagine the Sigaros made in the past five years will drink a decade hence. It’s an elegant wine with much greater red fruit than purple. I didn’t find the wine as balanced. (967 views) | | | Tasted by Topper on 7/7/2018 & rated 96 points: A nice surprise. Truly beautiful wine that veered toward the complex and subtle rather than hit you over the head. Terrific mouthfeel with velvet texture, sweet tannins, restrained but delicious fruit. This was a great wine, drunk at just the right time. (1338 views) | | | Tasted by ssspore on 11/5/2016: Opened this for our blind 2006 tasting party. This one came in last for me. My first pick was 2006 Melberry Bond, second 2006 Ovid, 3rd was 2006 Scarecrow, 4th was 2006 Blankiet Estates and sadly last place was 2006 Fairchild Sigaro. Obviously they where all good. (1987 views) | | | Tasted by ssspore on 2/14/2015 & rated 96 points: Absolutely a beutiful wine. Nose was amazing: lavender, dark red fruit, tobacco, hints of vanilla, baby powder. Palate was well structured with complex and long finish. I would love to try this head to head with the 2006 Melberry Bond. I'm not sure which would win. (1925 views) | | | Tasted by Uglypinga on 5/24/2013: warm nose of ripe red fruits and baking spices. the palate is very structured but inviting with ripe fresh plums and great density. clean and delicious. i love these wines. (1935 views) |
| Fairchild Estate 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)St. Helena Appellation Napa Valley
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