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| Drinking Windows and Values |
| Drinking window: Drink between 2022 and 2025 (based on 6 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.1 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 18 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Jonnhy99 on 9/18/2023 & rated 89 points: This wine felt like I was smelling a South American wine at some point and southern Rhone the next but never Napa. Aromas of game, bell pepper, red plum, Indian spice (turmeric), cherry, and perfume. Flavors of vanilla, black cherry, bell pepper, cherry Cola, pepper, mint, and tree bark after some time. Fine soft grain tannins with medium acidity. Fantastic with BBQ ribs. (508 views) | | | Tasted by Twopawsup on 1/21/2023 & rated 89 points: Ruby color with slow legs. Cedar, spice and berry on the nose. Cherry, red plum and bell pepper on the palate. Medium leathery finish. (839 views) | | | Tasted by xyc on 6/29/2022 & rated 85 points: One taster notes "flat" and I'll add "sterile" as in sweetish artificial tasting fruit with wood chips adding their artificial vanilla sterile component. It's supposed to be grape juice elevated by the art of winemaking not a high school science experiment. I do understand why such faux wine is appealing; avoid the obvious flaws inherent in winemaking, add enough sweet and vanilla flavor, as easy as making kid's breakfast cereal and much more profitable. (1429 views) | | | Tasted by camroc830 on 5/21/2022 & rated 90 points: Decanted for 4 hours and it needed it because this medium body wine was still a little tight when first poured. It opened fairly quickly in the glass, though, and then I got a lot of red fruit on the palate--tart cherry, raspberry. Not much depth, nuance, or finish so I'd call it maybe Hall Napa Valley cab lite. I have to say I like it because I drank it all, but it's at best a $25 experience. Not sure I'd buy it again. (1368 views) | | | Tasted by RLVas on 2/11/2022 & rated 87 points: Not bad, but I was expecting better. Medium body for cab, good initial flavors but a bit of a chemical-like after taste (1548 views) | | | Tasted by Jobu on 1/31/2022 & rated 91 points: Similar to previous note. Definitely not the biggest Napa Cab out there, but a solid QPR. (1244 views) | | | Tasted by Mlupton26 on 10/13/2021 & rated 82 points: Not bad not good. Quite flat and no real distinguishable fruit flavors. Not worth the price (1296 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 9/23/2021 & rated 89 points: Muted, smoke-tinged, red and dark fruit, wild herbs, and walnut shell. Good weight and density, very approachable now, the flavors are more dark fruited than the nose, and it develops brightness and succulence with air. Very good. (613 views) | | | Tasted by Mdb1982 on 8/14/2021 & rated 92 points: From Rutherford Ranch website:
VINEYARD NOTES
A portion of our 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced from our Heide Ranch vineyard, one of the latest additions to our impressive vineyard portfolio. Located in the eastern part of the Napa Valley Appellation, this region produces exceptional ripe fruit, giving our Cabernet Sauvignon the bold and rich flavors that aficionados everywhere have grown to love.
85% Cabernet Sauvignon
11% Merlot
2% Petite Sirah
1% Malbec
1% Petit Verdot
FOOD PAIRING NOTES
This rich and opulent Cabernet Sauvignon compliments a variety of dishes including portabello and goat cheese tartlets, braised short ribs, or a herb crusted lamb shank.
PRODUCTION NOTES
The 2018 growing season, was truly an exceptional year for ripening grapes. Winter started out with very little rainfall, which made growers worry that it may be another year of drought. When March arrived, however, it brought along the much-needed rainfall that helped fill the root zone, water table and some reservoirs. The vines came out of winter dormancy and began the season with ample water and abundant sunshine. (1036 views) | | | Tasted by Jobu on 7/18/2021 & rated 92 points: Red cherry & plum. Medium to full bodied. A little spice framed by a little oak. Really good QPR if you can find it under $25. (803 views) | | | Tasted by Border Boss on 5/5/2021 & rated 82 points: Purchased off of a restaurant list. Popped and poured.
Medium red in color. Not at all what I expected from a young Napa Cab.
The palate was one-dimensional, with a lot of tartness to the red fruit. So much tartness in fact that I needed to sip some water every time I took a sip of wine. I finally gave up and finished the meal with water. (798 views) | | | Tasted by ATLVinoGuy on 3/11/2021 & rated 95 points: Beautiful red fruit aromas. Cherry, currant, cocoa - full-bodied with silky tannins. (727 views) |
| By John Szabo, MS
WineAlign (7/18/2022)
(Rutherford Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Michael Godel
WineAlign (7/18/2022)
(Rutherford Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley red) Subscribe to see review text. | By David Lawrason
WineAlign (7/16/2022)
(Rutherford Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Panel Tasting
Decanter, Californian Cabernet Sauvignon 2017/18 panel tasting results (2/1/2022)
(Rutherford Ranch, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Cabernet 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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