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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.7 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 15 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by andrewdl on 4/14/2024 & rated 97 points: Fantastic with homemade pizza night. Great expression of classic Napa cab. (114 views) | | | Tasted by Tonythefish on 2/12/2024 & rated 94 points: Dark fruits, crushed granite and light spice came through. Opened beautifully in the glass over about three hours. Deep red in color. Finish lasted 30 plus seconds and tannins had really mellowed. (295 views) | | | Tasted by Bryanb2002 on 10/29/2023 & rated 94 points: Nice food wine, leaner style that is pretty symbolic with the immediate vicinity that it comes from in the Napa Valley growing area. Berries, licorice and a gravelly note that shows up in the back palette. A very good wine, but not a great one and when you price up high you get graded high. (362 views) | | | Tasted by Cablover1982 on 2/4/2023 & rated 96 points: Brilliant wine. Took a good 3.5 hrs to open. Pretty purple color. Incredible notes of dark berries, dark cherries, spearmint, wet earth, mint chocolate, toasted oak and melted licorice. Silky smooth palate that adds amazing characteristics while remaining so light on its feet. Good acidity, ripe tannins on long finish. Melka did a fine job. (960 views) | | | Tasted by EM_MB on 11/11/2022 & rated 92 points: 6 hour slow ox. While tannins more settled than prior bottle couple years ago, didn’t have much a wow factor. Wondering if asleep right now. Revisit next bottle in at least 5 more years. (691 views) | | | Tasted by MJP Hou TX on 10/31/2022 & rated 95 points: A tick above the 15 GIII that I opened the a few days before. One of the more cellar worthy wines under the A.M. consulting. Consumed over three days and was enjoyable at every approach.
Hold or a long decant. 95+ (1683 views) | | | Tasted by Dalex on 12/5/2020 & rated 92 points: Oak is still disjointed. This sweet vanilla massive French oak is still overpowering everything. Most likely this will integrate in 2-5 years. Underneath appears to be a wall of delicious bright but dark blackberry fruit with a backbone of a dark chocolate cake. This just needs time. (1041 views) | | | Tasted by EM_MB on 12/5/2020 & rated 94 points: 6 hour slow ox. Tannins still grippy but not overly so. Oak still a bit too pronounced, my sense is will be 96+ in about 5 years. Hold. (1367 views) | | | Tasted by SpotterLA2 on 11/16/2018 & rated 97 points: Drink 2018-2038 (2146 views) | | | Tasted by Cristal2000 on 5/23/2018 & rated 95 points: Charity Pouring - Stones, Fairchild, Brand and Immortal (Hidden Ridge) (Craft LA - West Los Angeles): As with the Stones 2, this wine is from elevation and it shows with lots of earth driven notes on the nose, combining with tobacco, spices and a bit of red cherry fruit. This is pretty killer stuff, with firm but approachable tannins, nicely layered red and blue fruit, lots of spice box and serious freshness and purity. Of the Fairchild wines I tasted, this was the longest on the finish. A real solid effort and relative to the price of Stones, a much better value. (3952 views) | | | Tasted by dclaggett on 3/7/2018 & rated 95 points: Fairchild and Benediction tasting event.
#2 wine of night for me. Dark plum/crimson, spicy red fruit core, acid and structure evident for long life ahead. (2092 views) |
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| Fairchild Estate 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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