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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.9 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by willfab60 on 7/17/2015 & rated 87 points: Popped and poured .Definitely fading but still was enjoyable. Too much fruit has left this wine.
Will drink the 1 bottle I have left very soon. (1259 views) | | | Tasted by spencermerrell@gmail.com on 11/27/2013 & rated 87 points: Jammy. Started off rather well but then never really mellowed. Tried a pop-and-poor sip and then decided to throw the rest through a venturi. Drank over several hours with no major changes to note. Decent amount of tannins remain - not a lot, but more than I had expected given last public reviews. This could go another year - I don't see any downside, but I don't imagine this transforming into something that I would really enjoy. Way too jammy for our tastes. (1639 views) | | | Tasted by capacious on 3/10/2013 & rated 84 points: This wine is still lacking balance. Perhaps in reading the other reviews we should have left it to breath for a while, but essentially I would take the words out of the first reviewer. I like full throttle cabs, when they are well balanced, but this one needed considerably more restraint. I have 4 more bottles. I will wait until the wine's Bar Mitzvah (1758 views) | | | Tasted by decaturwinedude on 8/2/2009 & rated 85 points: All juiced up with too much of everything. Overripe dark fruit, searing alcohol. There's a crowd for this I suppose, but it's not a crowd I'm getting with anytime soon. Can do much better with $50+, unless you like Cali Cab on steroids. (2538 views) | | | Tasted by RockinCabs on 3/16/2007: The wine was enormously tight upon opening and had copious barnyard, cherry and oak almost like a bordeaux. However as the wine opened over several hours it developed a thick cherry berry flavor that gushed at midpalate, and had a custardy long cherry vanilla ice cream finish that lingered forever. As the wine further developed the flavors really separated on the palate, and wild flavors of currants, tobacco, and casis came out on entry, and all of the characteristics of the cab were able to really push through. Excellent pairing with the Au Poive - Capital Grille NYC (2413 views) |
| Stanton 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.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)Oakville |
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