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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.1 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 15 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Barnaby33 on 9/15/2019: It's there. A bit of fruit, a bit of tannin, nothing to rave about. I'd not buy it again. (1130 views) | | | Tasted by Vinnut on 5/25/2015 & rated 91 points: Deep, dark reddish-purple garnet in color with slight clearing at the edges. Forward, fragrant, attractive and complex nose of ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, cassis and black plums with cedar & earthy overtones, dark cocoa, some tobacco notes, dried herbs, minerals, some spices, vanilla and toasted oak in the background. Medium-full bodied with a very good concentration of balanced, smooth textured, ripe dark fruit flavors of dark cherries, blackberries & cassis with dark cocoa, herbs, minerals, earthy, spices and toasty oak in the background. Long lingering smooth finish. Drinks quite well at present and should hold onto its current plateau for a few more years although any further development would be minimal. (2782 views) | | | Tasted by Milos on 1/17/2015 & rated 89 points: Dark bright red; not showing much age. Forward blackberry, prune and iodine. The palate still show s a lot of fruit and slightly unripe but fine tannins. Moderate finish. (2838 views) | | | Tasted by Daley Cellars on 4/20/2013 & rated 88 points: Bottle was decanted for about 45 min. Could still taste some fruit. Finish was good but probably not as good as it would have been 5 years ago.
The wine looks Purple colored. The legs are Medium. It smells like Blackberry, and Prune. It tastes like and Prune. The body is Medium. The wine has Smooth texture. The wine finishes Medium. (3908 views) | | | Tasted by DecoEd on 1/26/2011 & rated 90 points: Still a good wine but has lost many of it's original complexities. Drink up. (4724 views) | | | Tasted by Gfritzh on 9/14/2008 & rated 88 points: Probably past its prime. Color still good with no brown tones evident at the edges. But the wine has lost most of its fruit and backbone. (4120 views) | | | Tasted by Luvwine1 on 8/24/2008 flawed bottle: corked (2935 views) | | | Tasted by ToddR911 on 4/3/2008 & rated 85 points: Seems to be fading. Earthy since it seems the fruit is dissipating. I'm kicking myself for not opening this sooner. (2882 views) | | | Tasted by psmith on 11/12/2007: Not showing its age, but rather green and less ripe dark fruit than a number of 1995s. Classic fruit structure, with more astringent tannins. Fine. (2150 views) | | | Tasted by Gfritzh on 5/4/2007 & rated 93 points: This was a wonderful wine. Lively but muted black cherry fruit, silky tannens and a smooth, long finish. Drinking great right now. (2100 views) | | | Tasted by La Cave d'Argent on 2/10/2004 & rated 94 points: Consumed at the Marine Room with John and Royce Campbell. Bottle taken from my personal cellar. Bright disc. Deep ruby/garnet robe with some bricking at the rim. Clean nose, showing a beautiful bouquet of plums, leather (rawhide), damp earth and black cherry. Full-bodied on the palate, with medium residual supple tannins, low-to-medium acidity and similar flavors as for the nose. Long, smooth finish. Stunning juice! (1933 views) |
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Decoy Wines 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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