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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.2 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 73 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Rossdhu House on 2/15/2024 & rated 92 points: Amazing. Drinking very well now. Standard Stag’s Leap.Has softened a lot, drink now to 1-2 years. (230 views) | | | Tasted by Lax4 on 1/1/2024 & rated 91 points: Dark Red in color with hints of licorice and vanilla. Aerated leveraging Aervana. Some sediment with wine tasting being very smooth and great finish beginning to end. (263 views) | | | Tasted by thebonnydooner on 12/29/2023 & rated 93 points: Lovely showing, nice concentration on both the palate and nose. Juicy currant and dark plum fruit. Lovely currant and dark berry nose, hint of mint. Enticing and beautiful. Nuanced and interesting as well as having juicy sweet fruit though with a dry finish. First time with Chimmney Rock and really impressed (260 views) | | | Tasted by Kozakofthewest on 10/17/2023 & rated 92 points: Love stags leap district , classy lady , strong and smooth. Will be good for another 7 years , enjoy ! (408 views) | | | Tasted by Kozakofthewest on 6/18/2023 & rated 92 points: Quite lovely ! All the good stuff out of stags leap district, the wine is in perfect place developed and at the same time can take quite a few years in the cellar. Beautiful red and dark fruits , soft pallet with resolved tannins and a hit of violet flowers. No faults can be found just not as concentrated hence a 92-93 score. Enjoy ! (623 views) | | | Tasted by WineGuyDelMar on 3/4/2023 & rated 90 points: From a Magnum I bought at Total Wine for $200 or so after having been in Mexico for 6 weeks and just wanted a nice red wine to share with my family in San Diego. Pulled the cork out two hours before dinner. Took a sip after an hour or so. Was surprised how soft this was out of a Magnum. I was a CR Wine Club Member and never found these wines long agers. I mostly drank them at 5-7 years after vintage.
That being said the wine had nice cassis, chocolate, earth, spice with medium mouthfeel. It was fairly simple lacking in depth and extraction but still very good. I would drink this wine up in 750ml bottles as it’s not likely to improve much from here as acidity is low. Still quite enjoyable but probably wouldn’t pay the money for it again. Drink up. (1250 views) | | | Tasted by Jdogreilly on 11/4/2022: Burgers (991 views) | | | Tasted by jroberts86 on 7/21/2022 & rated 93 points: Exceeded my already high expectations. Opened 2 hours before the first glass. Stag's Leap at its best. Cherry, cassis, elderberry. Some minerality. Well integrated and a medium finish. Glad I have a few more. (1162 views) | | | Tasted by srkool on 2/18/2022 & rated 90 points: First thing that I noted upon opening on the nose was a slight mint smell. First taste matched up as well then got hints of blackberry and cassis. Tannins were not strong but what I would term as medium. As I progressed on the first glass, the taste seemed a bit muted and somewhat soft. Not much of a fruit taste. Will decant it overnight and re-taste the following day. Will try to give another review. (1354 views) | | | Tasted by MJP Hou TX on 10/19/2021 & rated 89 points: There was a brief window that I thought that wine might have been worth a couple more points more but time gave that away to a pretty meh bottling. I'll be the first to admit I'm spoiled with small boutique wine but I have enjoy larger production (sequoia grove) in the past and this is just okay. At $80 retail this should've had more fruit being that it's from Stags Leap. Nose was 80% there but that was about it. Consumed over two days. (3018 views) | | | Tasted by WyoWino on 9/13/2021 & rated 92 points: Amazing how this wine has changed over the last two years. Decanted an hour before dinner and from that pour deep notes of dark cherry and cassis emerged. As dinner progressed the wine seemed to lose the massive nose of dark fruit. A very balanced wine emerges with a smooth finish with a solid tannic bite. Would imagine this wine will have a number of years left to go. Can’t go wrong opening now, but could be rewarded with a couple more years of cellaring. (1556 views) | | | Tasted by Djwinelady on 9/4/2021: Full Cab (1255 views) | | | Tasted by wineappreciation on 8/16/2021 & rated 92 points: Blackberry and oak; refined but relatively muted nose; faint but lovely fruits; smooth, silky, very long finish; subtle but excellent (1256 views) | | | Tasted by Bobcat 31 on 1/9/2021 & rated 90 points: waiting for it to age was helpful. Good bottle (1776 views) | | | Tasted by boneguy on 12/12/2020 & rated 86 points: Overall disappointing for the price point. Never opened up despite 2+hours decanted. Disappointed I have another bottle that very likely won’t be better. (1505 views) | | | Tasted by PJT on 9/19/2020 & rated 89 points: Drank over 2 nights. I enjoyed but was not at all impressed given the price. This would have been a good $25-30 Cabernet. Lacked the great Napa fruit and complexity I would normally expect from a wine in this price range. (1752 views) | | | Tasted by Rossdhu House on 8/25/2020 & rated 84 points: Drinking quite well. STD CR Stag’s Leap Cab. (1790 views) | | | Tasted by tbabes on 4/23/2020 & rated 92 points: Fill was into the neck and the cork was sound; popped and poured. Youthful purple core with no bricking. Notes of blackberry, cassis, hints of cherry and spice box. Medium bodied, ripe tannins, quite balanced, good depth and length. Almost elegant for a Napa Cab, I truly enjoyed this. (1434 views) | | | Tasted by Sanlucar on 4/9/2020 & rated 90 points: At first sip, I thought it was flawed because the finish was metallic and astringent. After an hour, it became a true Napa Cab but not quite up to par with other Cabs from Stag's Leap district. Overall I found it to be a solid wine but lacking the fruit-driven profile and terrior of most well made wines from that area. Bought as part of a collection; my cost was $40, so I'm glad I didn't pay any more. (1474 views) | | | Tasted by Winowhyno on 8/7/2019 & rated 91 points: very nice cab (2031 views) | | | Tasted by Winowhyno on 6/26/2019 & rated 91 points: Beautifully balanced...nice fruit...some graphite on the finish that will probably change over the next 60 minutes. (1910 views) | | | Tasted by novicefun on 12/25/2018: share with Lindens (2340 views) | | | Tasted by Gaylord W on 11/22/2018 & rated 80 points: No depth no body almost a bitter taste. Way over priced. Ordered at Country Club that has an extensive list. (2242 views) | | | Tasted by Skovey on 11/18/2018 & rated 93 points: Fruit forward, soft finish. Not real big (2210 views) | | | Tasted by Tyler C on 9/25/2018 & rated 91 points: Nice cab, I often get down on Chimney for their QPR, but this has great structure, nice cherries peaking through and med- tannins. I think drinking perfectly right now. (1991 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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JebDunnuck.com, California, Napa Valley: Napa’s Exuberant, Powerful 2015s (12/29/2017)
(Chimney Rock Winery Cabernet Sauvignon) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Panel Tasting
Decanter, California Cabernet 2014 PT April 2018 (10/10/2017)
(Chimney Rock, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Stags Leap District, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (1/26/2017)
(Chimney Rock Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Stags Leap District, United States) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Napa Valley Trilogy: 2014, 2015 & 2016-Part1 (Dec 2016) (12/1/2016)
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| Chimney Rock 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)Stags Leap District Stags Leap District |
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