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| Drinking window: Drink between 2022 and 2030 (based on 57 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 15 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 10/2/2023 & rated 90 points: Lots of fruit. Drink this would food, something fatty. They higher alcohol will cut through the fat. I would suggest even BBQ food. Cheers (446 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 5/3/2023 & rated 92 points: Incredible wine. Opens up nicely. Hunnicutt never fails!! :) (517 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 10/30/2022 & rated 92 points: killer (667 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 10/12/2022 & rated 92 points: Big fruit wine. Deep ruby red color. This wine does it for me. Just great representation of Napa Cab. Cheers (640 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 4/8/2022 & rated 90 points: Nice young wine. Needs some time still of course. Big fruity wine though. Low acidicy, yet tannins are med. Cheers (953 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 2/25/2022 & rated 92 points: Incredible wine. opens up nicely. I would buy more of this. Fruit is present . tannins are med. drink now - next 5 years (789 views) | | | Tasted by Stoic Warrior on 1/16/2022 & rated 85 points: Decanted 3 hours. The nose here is not bashful, but the palate is. Over time, lots of tobacco leaf and spicy oak notes. Concentrated but indescernible, very ripe dark fruits. Muddy. Fairly short finish.
2nd day: more of the same, except even less fruit evident. Frankly, it tastes as if it has been opened for several days instead of just one. The overwhelming and dominant impression I am left with is of hot, out of balance alcohol. A poor QPR.
I bought this in large part for the reputation of its winemaker, Kurt Venge, but I expected a more elegant, fruit forward, modern Napa style. Instead I am reminded of an older Napa style emulating a Bordeaux, sort of like what Andre Tchelistcheff or Mike Grgich used to make back in the 70's or 80's, but less impressive. (677 views) |
| By Jeb Dunnuck
JebDunnuck.com, Napa Valley’s 2018s (1/27/2021)
(Hunnicutt Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, Napa Valley’s Thrilling 2018s & 2019s, Parts 1 & 2 (Jan 2021) (1/1/2021)
(Hunnicutt Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Hunnicutt 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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