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| Drinking window: Drink between 2016 and 2019 (based on 18 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.8 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 4 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by anderegg on 1/16/2018 & rated 88 points: PnP. Color is a deep, somewhat transparent purple, fading to a touch of red then orange at the edge. Initially no aroma. With some swirling darker boysenberry, blackberry and blueberry aroma appear with some vanilla. On the palate the wine the darker berries, some acidity, light tannin leaving a mouth-watering finish with some peppery notes. Body is light+ maybe to medium-. Drinking with a dinner of chicken in a mild, chili verde, a pot sticker pork stirfry with cabbage, steamed kale, steamed broccoli, garlic green beans, tex mex corn and some macaroni and cheese. The wine comes across as light and food friendly. Quite good with food. The wine feels like it is opening up more after about 20 minutes. (511 views) | | | Tasted by khmark7 on 2/14/2016 & rated 88 points: Delicate & lean food friendly Cabernet that would best pair with pork or lighter meats. You could call this classic styled.
No hurry with this bottle as I think it will open up with more time. Well done, and just a little light today upon opening. (953 views) |
| Barboursville Vineyards 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.Virginia Virginia Wines (Virginia Wineries Association)Central VirginiaMonticello is the proper sub region in Virginia for King Family Vineyards, not Central Region. |
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