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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.4 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 1/6/2024 & rated 93 points: A very nice wine. Has everything you want from a cab. You can tell the difference from the reserve to their other cabernet. This wine can be held alot longer. Cheers (655 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 10/13/2022 & rated 94 points: Incredible Wien. Opens up nicely. Needs about an hour of decanting. The fruit comes out and explodes in your mouth. So good. Cheers (1367 views) | | | Tasted by LiteItOnFire on 6/19/2021 & rated 92 points: Great night with friends and four wines: Scarlett Reserve, L Barton, Vieux Chateau Certan and Kosta Brown Pinot.
Decanter for 3 hours beforehand which was not enough as the wine was blocked from expressing itself - not with a tannic or structural means rather muted like many of the ‘18s I have tasted however at the four hour mark it started to showcase wonderful dark fruits that grew with complexity and enjoyment as the night went on. No formal notes as there were two of us for the four wines (wives polished off the KB while we focused on the other three. Would hold for 2-3 years before opening again. Even if you bought a stupid number of these like I did, hold for a min of 1 more year. (3199 views) | | | Tasted by pakabear on 5/29/2021 & rated 93 points: Blackberry, blueberry, plum, cinnamon, clove, anise, asphalt, great balance, light to medium body…. This is really good but I expected more based on other reviews and comments. (1925 views) | | | Tasted by csimm on 8/24/2019 & rated 99 points: Mike Smith 2018s & 2017s - Myriad, Quivet, Scarlett, Becklyn, and others (Saint Helena): Equally dark as the regular sample, the Reserve fires-off with a serious streak of minerality and a tannic backbone that immediately frame-out and control the electric fruit just waiting to explode. On the attack is a measured and chiseled delivery, with plenty of concentration and skillful extraction to create both a highbrow and a sensual shape. The Reserve behaves much like the Elysian does with its elevated locked-and-loaded application as well as conveying its succulent fruit core with appetizing appeal. Not as overtly flamboyant as the standard Scarlett at the moment, this Reserve offering ultimately impresses for its focus and knife-blade accuracy of execution from front to back. Finishes like a 6’2” German runway model’s skintight skirt; precise, stimulating, and mesmerizing.
This instantly reminded me of the beguiling 2015 Scarlett Reserve (which was a 99-100 point wine for me last time I had fun with it). The 2018 has a near-identical profile, with just a bit more spine-forward attack in its current state. This will need a few years in bottle before it will produce a like level of extravagance as the 2018 standard Scarlett now. 96-99+ points for the Reserve. (6392 views) |
| Scarlett Wines 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 SauvignonReserve The Wine News | Wine Country This Week | Wine Lover's PageUSAAmerican 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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