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Member #55,028 signed up 6/21/2008 and last accessed 9/14/2015
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2004 Corison Cabernet Sauvignon
6/21/2008 - corks wrote:
Responding to Ben's question about the relative "weights" of the Corison Cabernet and the Corison Kronos Vineyard Cabernets- Kronos Vineyard, my estate vineyard, is one of the last old Cabernet vineyards in the Napa Valley. Situated between Rutherford and St. Helena on the "bench" (alluvial gravelly loam, "Rutherford Dust"), it was planted in the early '70's, so is over 35 years old. Growing on St. George rootstock with pitiful yields (1.5 tons to the miserable acre, 13-year average) it produces wines of amazing color, complexity and intensity, all under 14% alcohol. As a winemaker, it is a gift. As a business, I don't know anyone else that would put up with it.
The Corison Cabernet has been sourced from the same 3 vineyards, also between Rutherford and St. Helena on the same soils as the Kronos Vineyard, for 23 years. I'm involved in the farming, but I don't own the dirt. They also yield wines that are both powerful and elegant, but with brighter, less brooding fruit. The vines are younger, as they have all been replanted due to Phyloxera. My guess is that they will produce more concentrated fruit as they mature. In California we have had very little opportunity to experience wine from old vines.
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