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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.1 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 17 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by VinoGeeko on 4/24/2021 & rated 91 points: After decanting for a half-hour, we enjoyed this with some chacuterie in Notre Dame, IN. Beautiful color! The body is soft with some hints of lead pencil, dark berries, and licorice. The tone is very gentle and patient. The finish is decently long but there's is too little grip (tannin) for me personally.
IMO, is a bit past the peak. Overall, I was disappointed given the pedigree of the grapes. (691 views) | | | Tasted by ageverett on 10/17/2015 & rated 93 points: Slow ox for 3.5 hours. Gave a try - still a bit tight. Into the decanter for an hour.
Nose is pretty deep and brooding. Black fruit and black earth. Palate hits with more of the same, and some overipe plum. Developed some secondary notes (leather; black tea) as it was open longer. Finish still has quite a grip.
Have had some really good experiences with 2006 Napa wines recently, so thought this would be a good one to pair with a Wagyu strip and watching the Cubs in NLCS Game 1. Overall would say that this still has plenty of life ahead of it, and if I had another bottle would wait 3-5 years. Alas, I got this on a closeout a few years ago and figure now was the time. C'est la vie. (3551 views) | | | Tasted by RyanWu on 11/29/2014 & rated 93 points: After decanting for an hour, the tranquil smoky cedar nose dressed with cassis had calmed you down to enjoy the wine. Although the body is not a juicy style, already soften enough to drink with some hints of lead pencil, dark berries and licorice. The tone is very gentle and patient. Lasting is also impressively along and provoke mouth watering. Now is the peak of this wine. I am really blessed to experience this great wine from one of the most prestige vineyards. (3532 views) | | | Tasted by kietkopelli on 11/24/2014 & rated 87 points: If you like smokey dark chocolate then this is your wine otherwise stay away and spend your money on something else. I am with the latter group. Right off the pop the amount of smoke in this wine is astounding almost like standing next to the grill at a BBQ joint. We decanted for 1 hour but ti wasn't enough. Smoke and chocolate dominates. I struggle to find the fruit and a bit of ripe plum buried under all the ash. Tannins are still very tight.
This wine could settle in nicely in another 4-5 years but I don't have great hope for it. Not my kind of juice but others may like it. (3088 views) | | | Tasted by BKEP on 5/18/2013 & rated 95 points: Fabulous example of a Napa To Kalon cab. Had it with a rib eye and great double cream Brie, and found it absolutely superb. Dark purple. Blackberries, cherries. Opened 2 hours before drinking. (4287 views) | | | Tasted by efc on 3/10/2013 & rated 94 points: A complete wine in every respect. Deep purple in color with a heady nose of Blackberry, plum and chocolate. The tannins were fine and completely integrated. A wine of great length and full bodied. Overall, nothing was lacking. I wish I had more! (3991 views) | | | Tasted by dmoes on 10/18/2011 & rated 90 points: Very nice, but way too early. Good fruit and structure, but struggled to open. My bad. (3416 views) |
| Bacio Divino Producer web siteCabernet 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 SauvignonBeckstoffer To Kalon VineyardBeckstoffer To Kalon continues to receive worldwide accolades for its wines, particularly in the last decade. The vineyard is on a gentle slope on the western foothills of the Oakville appellation. Soils are Bale loam/Bale clay loam, and are impeccably farmed by Andy Beckstoffer’s team. We have a by-acre contract so we can determine canopy, crop load and picking dates – but rely on the Beckstoffer viticulturists for insight into this unique vineyard to guide our decisions. ... ©2012 Tor Kenward Family Wines
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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 Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Oakville |
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