2012 Rutherford Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  5/15/2020 - Kashvino Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Hints of oak, tobacco, vanilla and earthy tones on the nose along with berries. The palate is tannic with medium but leaning towards full bodied. It’s smooth and has a good finish that lasts for a bit.

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  6/8/2018 - Baron Slick wrote: 90 Points

  Bright and energetic in style this is upfront and approachable. Black cherry and dark briar fruit top notes emerge over rosemary, chocolate, and oak spice aromas. Shows nice weight, a lovely hint of bottle age, and closes with length and verve on the tightly packed finish. Tasty and way too easy to drink.

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  12/10/2016 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Bing cherry fruit and bright I am being told. And that is bright on the palate.

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  9/1/2016 - Glenn92 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Used a Vinturi to aerate the wine
  Good plum, cassis, maybe blackberry, and Zin notes on the nose
  Almost a pepper spices- sweet white pepper maybe?
  I get hints of smoke wafting by
  Easy tannin structure with solid fruit across the palate
  Could be a petite verdo splash. Nice spice at the end
  Slight under tones of cinnamon with the spice

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  8/17/2016 - Shinewine wrote:

  We are pleased to announce the release of our Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon! This bold, complex, voluptuous Cabernet Sauvignon has been sold out for over a year, leaving us and our members patiently waiting for this striking, age-worthy wine.
  Vintners have universally characterized the 2012 growing season and its abundant, high-quality harvest as classic, idyllic and textbook. After the challenges of 2010 and 2011, 2012 was blessed with moderate weather. The long, slow growing season ended with a brief heat spell and light rainfall in September and October brought fruit-laden vines to optimal ripeness, with sugar and acid in harmonious balance.
  The Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon fruit was sourced from the Oak Knoll appellation (59%) and our two estate vineyards in the Rutherford appellation, Franklin Vineyard (24%) and Abela Vineyard (17%). Perfect climatic conditions and the region's deep, loamy, well-drained soils produced dark create intensely flavored Cabernet berries.

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