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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.1 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 25 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by MicklethePickle on 5/20/2023 & rated 95 points: Popped and poured, and what a "show-off" right from the get-go. I'll finish this later, but too excited not to note a few first impressions. Those are: blue fruit; extremely thick, rich, concentrated; cocoa nibs; menthol; huge; lasting; ripe but not too ripe; long distance runner that won't disappoint those who prefer primary fruit at its best. After this has had some air, we'll see how it evolves. For now, I'd say this was a great buy at roughly $140 when it was first released.
24 hours later, after sitting in the bottle in the cellar: still very, very primary and mostly about oodles and oodles of powerful blue-black fruit with rich charcoal, just a huge, huge powermonger of a wine. WOW. After ten years, it is incredibly young. A forty-year Cab? Wouldn't surprise me. 5-13-18-9: 95/100. (509 views) | | | Tasted by jlgnml on 4/15/2023 & rated 94 points: Wow! Hidden gem. Decanted for an hr+ and this wine delivered. Good fruit, lively acidity, long finish, pretty damn good. Drink or Hold. (562 views) | | | Tasted by jeginmt on 2/22/2022 & rated 95 points: Outstanding Cabernet. Dark ruby color. Full bodied. Dark fruit flavors, boysenberry and chocolate. Silky tannins. Long finish. My rating is conservative. (1089 views) | | | Tasted by shellylowen on 12/3/2021 & rated 93 points: Nice floral nose, dark fruits with mouth coating soft tannins, medium-full body, and long caressing finish (997 views) | | | Tasted by wendyinwlv on 8/15/2021 & rated 90 points: Our bottle was a bit strange. Opened up 2 hours before drinking. The nose was not right. Had a "wet newspaper" smell, however the flavor of the wine was great. The funky nose never went away. Would have scored it higher, but couldn't get over the smell. (1079 views) | | | Tasted by jlgnml on 7/5/2021 & rated 93 points: Dark fruit, food mouthfeel and finish. Drink. (1147 views) | | | Tasted by PapaGreenz on 6/25/2021 & rated 93 points: Excellent (877 views) | | | Tasted by shellylowen on 4/24/2021 & rated 94 points: Plum nose, blackberry and cassis, tar licorice and chock, full body with mouth coating tannins, long cocoa finish that goes on and on. Medium acidity (637 views) | | | Tasted by alimack on 1/13/2021 & rated 97 points: Excellent wine. So silky and smooth. (739 views) | | | Tasted by danielbleier on 10/24/2020 & rated 92 points: Carlos enjoyed this one the most of the 3 Cabernets sampled, bold blackberry , licorice and sweet spice. Drinking well now but should hold. (793 views) | | | Tasted by norzano on 6/6/2020 & rated 93 points: Slow ox for about 4 hours. Good nose - chocolate, olive, dark red fruit. A little dense still on the mouth. Raspberry, cocoa, briny/olive, cigar box. Has some more room to go. (908 views) | | | Tasted by comlaw on 7/9/2019 & rated 94 points: Decanted for one hour. It continued to open for another thirty minutes. Drinking very well right now. Moderate to big cab with dark and red fruit, chocolate, soft tannins and a long finish. (1160 views) | | | Tasted by Mark1npt on 5/14/2019 & rated 93 points: Drinking especially rich and well right now...classic cab nose and flavor profile. The Georges III fruit is rich and playing very well right now. This is in a perfect drinking window for those who don't want over the top fruit but don't want a washed out secondary profile cab either.....good stuff! (2564 views) | | | Tasted by jpmo on 12/9/2018 & rated 90 points: Nice wine - pretty straight forward. Soft tannins but not much depth. More time may make a difference, but I doubt it. (1436 views) | | | Tasted by brickharley on 3/16/2018 & rated 95 points: Fantastic Cab! Great structure and balance. Notes of black cherry. Worth every penny! (1587 views) |
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Vinous, California North Coast Supplement (Aug 2016) (8/1/2016)
(Sojourn Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Vineyard Georges Iii Napa Valley) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (5/3/2016)
(Sojourn Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Rutherford Vineyard Georges III, United States) Subscribe to see review text. |
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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)Rutherford Rutherford,
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