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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.5 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 22 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by JonnyG on 12/25/2023 & rated 93 points: My first of six. Ripe and modern, a bit one dimensional but nonetheless delivers, with delicious blue and black fruit, some bramble and pepper. A touch of heat. Fully mature but should hold for a decade. (334 views) | | | Tasted by gteran76 on 7/23/2023 & rated 94 points: 45 minutes double decanted and consumed about 2 hours later with friends at Flemings. This is a big Napa Cabernet, one of those that can cut through a big and fatty Tomahawk!
Everyone at the table loved it. (500 views) | | | Tasted by Elkcims on 2/27/2023 & rated 95 points: 3 hour S/O, drank over 3 hours. Saved half for next day.
Big bold, low acid, soft tannins, black currant, earth tones. Although enjoyable, I decided a few years ago to stop buying this as it lacked complexity and didn’t merit the $175 tariff. It might be worth it today considering the 25% inflation in NV pricing that’s occurred in the past 1-2 years. Still it was an enjoyable bottle and didn’t change on day 2. (614 views) | | | Tasted by gteran76 on 3/18/2022 & rated 94 points: From my bedroom to the fridge (opened) for about 2 hours, then decanted for 1 full hour and placed back in the fridge for about 10 minutes while we finished getting ready to leave to the restaurant...
This wine is a beast, big and bold classic Napa with high tannins and restrained in the fruit department (which contradict my previous statement that is a "classic Napa", but I'm referring to the Napa Cults).
At this stage in its life the wine is a bit tannic still, like most of the 2010’s from Napa, while the long exposure to oxygen helped the wine and don’t think it’s shining at this moment. We took a quarter of the bottle back home and finished by 10pm (around 8 hours after it was opened) and the wine went downhill…
94+ HOLD. (1007 views) | | | Tasted by Red Sox Fan on 9/26/2021 & rated 94 points: Failing to heed my own advice, I barely waited a few months to open another bottle, not the few years I had recommended. My impatience was rewarded by a wonderful Cabernet with complexity and a long finish. The wine was somewhat cloudy and an extra bubble of tannin showed up regularly in the finish or it would have merited another point or two. (1043 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Warrior 1 on 4/25/2021 & rated 93 points: I feel like this wine went through a few awkward years and is now finding its legs. Pretty fruit and seems balanced throughout. What seems unusual with this wine is its acidity. It is all over the board. Depending how you swirl it in your mouth, you can find yourself amazed or offended. I believe its still needs a few years to completely resolve and then my money is this wine is a real winner. Fruit is still fresh and tannins are really refining themselves. Drink now and you'll enjoy, wait (IMO, 2 years) and you will be happy. (1011 views) | | | Tasted by Red Sox Fan on 4/5/2021: Almost a year ago, this wine was “slightly one dimensional” and then opened up nicely after 3 hours. This bottle never really opened up. I have several more bottles and will try to wait a couple of years to see how this wine evolves. (883 views) | | | Tasted by gteran76 on 4/2/2021 & rated 94 points: My selection for the CWG-D based on the assumption that my friends never had the wine and possibly never even heard of it.
Everyone like it but it didn’t fooled anyone, they all said Napa Cabernet. One at the table confused it with Verite Le Desir, possibly for the 5% Cab Franc.
The wine is ruby in color, bold body, dark fruits, strong persisten tannins, long finish and still unidimensional. 94++ HOLD. (758 views) | | | Tasted by rwstorer on 2/9/2021 & rated 92 points: Great nose of rich red fruits and graphite. Medium weight, with flavors of red fruits, spice and a hint of vanilla. A well made wine, but I should have let it air for a few more hours as it really started to come together after 90 minutes. (679 views) | | | Tasted by Red Sox Fan on 5/24/2020 & rated 95 points: After a 60 minute decant, this wine was a deep, rich, fruit-filled but slightly one-dimensional. Medium-long finish and perfectly integrated tannins. Three hours after opening, it had become more expressive with a strong beam of raspberry-orange followed by herbal flavors. Really interesting. This is a youthful wine and I look forward to seeing how it evolves. Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and for any service members who happen to read this let me say that I’m very grateful for the service of so many who have made it possible for me, my wife and friends to enjoy petty pleasures like fine wine and great food. And great pleasures like freedom of speech and the right to vote. THANK YOU. (627 views) | | | Tasted by rwstorer on 12/9/2018: Drinking well after a 4+ hour decant. (1025 views) | | | Tasted by ageverett on 9/30/2018 & rated 93 points: Stood up for an hour and then gentle decant for about 90 minutes. Drank over 2 hours.
Herbal tones dominate the nose and the palate. Fruit has given way to thyme, mint and black pepper. Medium weight and finish. Did not really evolve over the 2 hours we enjoyed it. Very food friendly with roast/carrots/potatoes.
Imagine I would have guessed this for Bordeaux if tasting blind. More recent vintages (all tasted within a year of release) seem to be more Napa in profile, so will be interesting to see how they age. (1694 views) | | | Tasted by Geaux Tigers on 7/19/2018 & rated 93 points: Decanted 4 hrs, drank over 2 hrs. Beautiful nose on open, but zero on the palate. Hit its stride at 5 hrs. More Bordeaux than Napa at first with faint fruit but herbal notes dominating. Red fruit started to take over at 5 hrs and really improved the overall experience. This would be a great food wine in another 5 years. 10-15 years of life left. 86 at open, 91 after 4 hrs, 93 at 5 hrs. (1632 views) | | | Tasted by Wine Warrior 1 on 4/29/2018 & rated 92 points: Double decanted for 4 hours. This is a well made wine that didn't show as well as it has in the past. Dark fruit, tobacco, and spice run throughout but the wine is showing extremely linear with little depth. Tannins and fruit are balanced, but leaves me wanting more. This wine had unusually high amount of sediment in the bottle. Plenty of fruit left but I'm hoping this will develop tertiary flavors otherwise I missed its best days. (1301 views) | | | Tasted by Tim Heaton on 5/17/2015: Hmm, what to say? This is a prodigious wine, pretty in its way. The creaminess/low-acid style, while not my preference at all, worked if for no other reason than it was a great study in contrast to the other wines that were open: 2001 Rafanelli Terrace Select, and a 2000 Amarone. Certainly has its own identity in tonight's company, but I can see this one-note style (that note is 'delicious'), growing somewhat tiresome (i.e. boring) by the second glass - for me, anyway. Monolithic, with blueberries and lavender; all too subtle notes of soil, of place. The back label says "non-interventionist winemaking" (deep pause) that has me scratching my head as there really is no 'grown' component to be found, just a 'designed/styled' one. 15,0% abv.
Double-decanted for sediment, served non-blind 4 hours later. (4150 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 10/26/2014: Knightsbridge Bordeaux and US Cabernet Tasting (Northbrook, IL): Tasting, brief note. Impossible to mistake for anything other than Cali Cab. Fun, forward and ultra lush, I just found it slightly monolithic. But I understand why others really enjoy this style. (4063 views) | | | Tasted by AllRed on 10/26/2014 & rated 90 points: US Cabernet/Blends and Bordeaux Tasting (Knightsbridge): Red & black fruit with a woody overtone. Palate follows the bouquet; plum on the finish. (3725 views) | | | Tasted by T.O.Wineaux on 2/22/2014 & rated 96 points: A bit early but just a fabulous cabernet at this point in what I believe will be a long lifetime. Nose contains tobacco, blackberry, and boysenberry with a hint of cocoa. Palate is highly structured with intense dark fruits and cocoa dust. Finish sails on for over a minute. A classy and distinct style of wine. I'll wait a couple years for this to integrate even further. (3511 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 8/25/2013 & rated 94 points: Licorice, truffle, smoke, fresh brewed espresso and blackberry aromas pair perfectly with the polished, silky textures and rich, fresh, sweet, black cherry and ripe boysenberries found in the finish. This wine will definitely improve with a few years of bottle age. This is a really nice style of California Cabernet Sauvignon. (4579 views) |
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| Seven Stones 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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