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| Drinking window: Drink between 2015 and 2019 (based on 9 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.5 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 18 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by jlhkiss on 10/8/2017 & rated 93 points: Opened and decanted an hour before dinner of seared pork loin. Needed about 1.5 hours to fully open up. Brambly blackcurrant, blackberries, red cherries, tobacco, and herbs on the nose. The palate is full, square, and concentrated, with a hard acidic frame, bringing blackberries, plums, dark cherries, dark chocolate, espresso, dried leather, mushrooms, and cherry cobbler into the finish, which is lengthy but still sharp and slightly hot. This was a lot more lively than expected so probably has a few more years yet. Best with air. Drink before 2020. Technical score: 92. Enjoyment score: 93. (827 views) | | | Tasted by jlhkiss on 10/24/2015 & rated 92 points: Decanted for 1.5 hours prior to dinner of seared filet, grilled asparagus, and garlic/onion hash brown potatoes. Inky black color with a violet hue. Nose brings intense pipe tobacco, lush cherries, wild herbs, and caramel sweet baking spices. The palate is full, sweet, voluptuous, and extremely juicy, bringing black cherries, chocolate mocha, brambly blackberries, sweet cassis liquor, more tobacco, and dried leather. The finish concludes for 30-45 seconds with a nice quenching pucker of candied raspberries and elegant, soft tannins. This wine feels like it may be entering a peak window over the next 2-3 years, though I suspect it might age well further. Its strength is in the subtleties, definitely made in an old-world, finesse-type style. We really enjoyed it. Drink now through 2020. (1386 views) | | | Tasted by spencermerrell@gmail.com on 10/11/2014 & rated 93 points: Opened for "New World Wine Tasting" - blind wine event with min $25/bottle. Decanted at 6:15pm and tasted 8:30-9:30. Group reaction was that we had picked a bottle too nice for the min :-).
I actually didn't enjoy it as much as I had previously- probably due to paring. Wine could easily benefit from aging for 2-5 yrs. (2332 views) | | | Tasted by Rezy13 on 10/11/2014: New World Blind Tasting Group $25+ (Bin 75): Dark core with garnet rim; currant, bay leaf, slight stewed cherry, spice, almost mushroom; soft texture, menthol, good structure; tasty; liked the complexity; the ripeness of the fruit says to drink sooner. (2141 views) | | | Tasted by Our Cellar Jen and Gregg on 12/26/2013: Had this with Christmas dinner 2013, enjoyed by all.. Better than Domina Cab! (2761 views) | | | Tasted by prasm on 10/11/2013 & rated 90 points: From a Tasting Room 50ml sample. Nose: Medium expressiveness, dark fruit, dark flowers, earthiness, and a little smokiness. Palate: Medium-full bodied, nice dark fruit attack with spicy undertones, nice mid-palate density and balance, back-end really comes together nicely. Finish: Medium-plus length sense of delicious spicy dark fruit and earthiness. (2238 views) | | | Tasted by tmhouse on 5/4/2013 & rated 92 points: Good nose, though rather subtle. Took quite a while to open up. Palate is well integrated and very smooth. Good balance of oak and spice with dark berry undertones. Reasonable complexity that leads to a finish that is a little too short. All in all, very good, but left me wishing for a little more length. (2069 views) | | | Tasted by merryberry on 5/26/2012 & rated 91 points: Intensely dark ruby with garnet highlights. Spice, cassis, violet, and oak nose. Full boded, blackberries, tobacco, green olives, black cherries, integrated tannins, smoke, dark chocolate, and a dry medium finish. Well balanced and quite delicious. (2480 views) | | | Tasted by spencermerrell@gmail.com on 2/25/2012 & rated 92 points: Love this wine. Wasn't going to open up my 2007's for a few years after the experience in aging my 2003 until 2011. Will improve with a few more years in the cellar but drinking very well right now. (2530 views) | | | Tasted by Metanoia on 6/8/2011 & rated 86 points: From a 50ml tasting bottle. Deep, deep maroon. Nose of tart cherry and blackbery, with some floral notes quickly overwhelmed with a huge dose of cedar, vanilla and a bit of coffee. On the palate, medium+ bodied with well... a two by four on the palate. I really had to pay attention to taste the fruit, which was there, and definitely mountain fruit, which I love. Cedar, vanilla, more cedar, toasty oak/chocolate, a bit of tart cherry and again coffee grounds, with a bit of a hollow midpalate since my tastebuds were just demolished by the oak. The acidity comes roaring back with soft, smooth tannins and a medium acidity driven finish.
Not my style, way too much oak covering up what could have been great mountain fruit. (2161 views) | | | Tasted by bjecjohnson on 6/8/2011 & rated 91 points: APPEARANCE: Beautiful magenta
AROMA: Pencil shavings and graphite are obvious. Also get slight hints of currant.
TASTE: Blackberries and black cherries with big tannins. Smooth and very nice on the palate. (2447 views) |
| Palmeri 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 SauvignonStagecoach Vineyard On weinlagen-infoUSAAmerican 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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