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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.3 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 4 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by tomoem on 11/12/2023 & rated 90 points: It is a decent wine from the Coombsville AVA in a year of utter failure. That said it is a much better wine than the vintage might reveal. I get no smoke whatsoever. The wine is weak from a "powerhouse standpoint" and more reserved and delicate than I would have expected. I am getting coffee bean as the label suggests, plum skin and some cranberry. Finish is cedar wood driven with creaminess making the primary finishing note. (504 views) | | Tasted by rbfleming on 4/1/2023 & rated 91 points: Boysenberry, cocoa and spice. What fun! (704 views) |
| By Antonio Galloni Vinous, Napa Valley: The Frantic 2020s & Stunning 2021s (Feb 2023) (2/1/2023) (Robert Craig Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Affinity Napa Red) Subscribe to see review text. | NOTE: Scores and reviews are the property of Vinous. (manage subscription channels) |
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Visits to Robert Craig Estate - Harvest Party 2009 - http://www.mcnees.org/winesite/napa/napa-09/napa-09-craig/napa_harvest_09_craig.htm Howell Mountain Estate Visit - 2008 http://www.mcnees.org/winesite/napa/napa_08/napa_08_craig.htm
Tribute to Robert Craig -https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2019/09/robert-craig-tribute.html 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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