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| Community Tasting Notes (average 96 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by bobh22314 on 1/6/2024 & rated 96 points: Note much in the way of notes Full mouthfeel soft tannins and a long finish. Ready now if you like big fruit driven wines. Maybe better in a couple of years but delicious now (331 views) | | | Tasted by Mdagator on 12/5/2023: Wonder deep color with lovely nose. Finish is fantastic. Decanted 90 mins. Would recommend a few hrs or more time asleep in cellar. (286 views) | | | Tasted by tomoem on 10/14/2023 & rated 96 points: Aromatically I get slight cherry fruit with a tinge of tobacco leaf and chocolate. In mouth the wine is soft with black currants, plum skin, slight amounts of ripe blackberry and that new french oak wood presence despite being 8 years in bottle. The mid palate is where this really shines with the viscous weight of the juice simply enveloping the mouth with coating berry flavors. This has tremendous weight with layering of tobacco, chocolate and plum leading to a long finish and really balanced tannin's. Ready to consume right now. (479 views) | | | Tasted by srwatters on 6/26/2022 & rated 95 points: Removed the cork and left in the cellar for five hours before blind tasting. Still too young. Outstanding potential showed as it continued to open up while consumed over the next few hours. Will let the remaining two rest for a few years. (1543 views) | | | Tasted by AGELVIS on 3/28/2022 & rated 97 points: Four hour decant. Very deep ruby magenta color. Dark fruit, wild strawberry, truffle and caramel infused dark chocolate, tea, and subtle marshmallow and orange rind on the nose. Very smooth, tongue drying palate. Firm, full tannins on the long finish.
Very elegant and refined. Didn’t necessarily need more than two hours of air, but four didn’t hurt. Birthday wine for my wife/girlfriend (it’s the same person). ;) (2220 views) | | | Tasted by Mark1npt on 11/14/2021 & rated 95 points: 95 bordering on 96 for me, personally. 3rd day of our latest Jaimepalooza and the livers are hanging low. 6+ hour decant, pretty decent strength to the classic cab nose. One of the better noses tonight, maybe some sweet violet? Very well balanced but not opulent, not extracted or over the top in any way, just balanced sensibly. (3038 views) | | | Tasted by AGELVIS on 11/14/2021 & rated 97 points: Seven hour decant. Deep, yet bright magenta color. Strawberry shortcake, blackberry compote, sweet violet, honey toasted pecans, and subtle baking soda on the elegant, complex nose. Very smooth, dry palate, with nice, grainy acidity. Plush tannins on the longish finish.
Mark - Thanks for opening this beauty for us (or for Carol). ;) (2240 views) | | | Tasted by 1964vintage on 4/16/2021 & rated 96 points: Double decant and this sings like an angel. Beautiful wine. (2136 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 11/14/2019 & rated 95 points: Matching power with elegance, the nose, with its licorice, vanilla, blackberry and smoky, fruity personality is just great. On the palate, the wine is about its purity of dark fruit and balance, rounded out by silky tannins. This is already disarmingly easy to drink today. (4529 views) | | | Tasted by Somm David T on 8/18/2019 & rated 97 points: The best vintage of the 13, 14, 15, 16 vintages I’ve had.
The fruit is stunning. Ripe, ruby, lush yet restrained. The acidity is perfect. Blackberries, strawberries, black cherries, black raspberries, black plum, melted chocolate, beautiful, baking spices, coffee, sweet, soft tarriness, diamond, fine earth and minerals, bright blue, red & purple florals. Acidy is perfect. The structure, tension, length and balance are stunning this early. The well balanced and polish finish is gorgeous and persists nicely. (2591 views) |
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Vinous, Napa Valley’s Extraordinary 2016 Cabernets (Dec 2018) (12/1/2018)
(Seven Stones Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Brilliance in Napa Valley: 2016 & 2015 Cabernets (Jan 2018) (1/18/2018)
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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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