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| Drinking window: Drink between 2010 and 2017 (based on 4 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.2 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 20 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by PMJak11 on 3/10/2017 & rated 91 points: Give this baby some air!! Tight nose and extremely high in OH, but gets better with air and time. Nice strawberry fruit and solid finish. (937 views) | | | Tasted by wineshaman on 2/6/2015 & rated 91 points: Brought from 53 degree cellar, decanted 2 hrs, drank over 4 hrs. Nose was flowery, with hints of minerals and graphite, on the palate there was a Bordeaux like structure of fruit, minerals, earth, nice balance,and good acidity, tannins are mostly integrated and this ready for consumtion. Nice food wine! (1349 views) | | | Tasted by johnwine on 8/13/2013 & rated 90 points: A bit disappointing and one dimensional. (1735 views) | | | Tasted by oenophilemoose on 5/15/2013 & rated 92 points: Fruit forward, mild tannins, wonderful mouth feel and finish. Even my non-Cab drinking spouse enjoyed this one. (2034 views) | | | Tasted by Motz on 4/27/2012 & rated 90 points: Not really my thing, but it's a big...even massive wine, incredibly fruit forward, as in sour cherry and blackberry flavored alcohol with a lot of acid. This being said, it is made ok. No real flaws because it was clearly made as a FRUIT BOMB. Also, I tasted a little Rutherford type earthiness behind all the fruit. Again, it's really acidic, especially for being eight years old. (2040 views) | | | Tasted by sasvino on 3/25/2012 & rated 93 points: Well I can't disagree the bigness and sweet notes i.e. vanilla, cocoa ... suggested in our ratings, with that said, I still like this one alot, and has gained some balance and complexity over the last couple years, its a been a few years since I rated it and its sadly my last bottle. I think its probably peaking now, maybe another year or so. Definitely a big bodied fruit forward spring mountain cab but I thought it was better balanced than meets the eye. Solid complexity and did get much better over a 3 - 4 hour drinking period and gained a bit of elegance. I did sense come tobacco hints of earthiness in the midpalate but no doubt the sweet notes stand out. For those fruit forward big cab types, this one will be enjoyable. Sticking with low 90s. -S (1485 views) | | | Tasted by Cantina Hill's on 12/17/2011 & rated 90 points: layered, great complexity, plus tannins, a little out of balance with the strong tannins, fruit matured like a great Bordeaux, if not for the tannin out of balance it would be one of the best Cabernets I have ever had. (1122 views) | | | Tasted by johnwine on 1/29/2011 & rated 92 points: Spring Mountain Cab with a classic structure and wonderful concentration of flavors. (937 views) | | | Tasted by pdrago on 3/8/2010 & rated 88 points: Same as previous notes. Well made (I should say "manufactured" these days) but just not my style. (1319 views) | | | Tasted by pdrago on 1/21/2010 & rated 88 points: Nice enough of a wine, but definitely not my style. This has all the markings of a 2x4 Napa Cab. Over-extracted, excessive Vanilla notes, sweet currants, jammy berry fruit, and not 1 hint of anything remotely earthy or savory. This wine also has almost zero acidity to balance the fleshy, viscous body. Tannins are integrated nicely though. Overall, this is a very 1 dimensional product and almost exactly what I expected. (1291 views) | | | Tasted by Frijole on 7/27/2008: plum red, tan brown tones, silvery, slightly brickish hue, medium clarity
Nose: roasted cherries, licorice, dark chocolate, oak, mustard, earth
Pal: roasted cherries, espresso, tar, chalk, touch mint, earth, tannins, dark chocolate
Feel: full
Finish: long
TC8 (357 views) | | | Tasted by sasvino on 4/24/2008 & rated 93 points: Another stellar cab from Terra, needs time to develop but overall structure is great and with several layers of flavors. Jammy in nature on the front, blackberry and sweet cherry, midpalate had a sweet vanilla and cocoa, earthy feel, finish was solid and deep. Its a elegant full bodied cab. Big fan. 93 now likely to improve with time. (1698 views) | | | Tasted by jjclips2 on 2/21/2008 & rated 92 points: And I thought I liked the regular Cab. This is a blockbuster. So much richer and more extracted than the regular bottling. Thick juicy black cherry and cassis with loads of creamy chocolate and vanilla. Not shy on the oak either, offering spices and vanilla. Soft acidity and firm tannin structure. Wouldn't mind seeing this in a few years to see what happens. (1838 views) | | | Tasted by hutch on 2/20/2008 & rated 91 points: Wine Exchange Tasting: 1st vintage of this wine, I believe, on what appear to be very young vines. the nose is slightly tight. On the palate, this wine is big, with big grainy tannins taking a prominant role. The fruit is blackberry in style, and there's some earthiness to this as well that surprised me. Impressively big, and if all goes well, could be a great wine in five or ten years. 90-92 (2341 views) |
| Terra Valentine 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)Spring Mountain DistrictWikipedia article on the Spring Mountain Distric AVA. |
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