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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.9 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by castle.rob@gmail.com on 5/13/2023 & rated 94 points: Deep purple color
On the nose, blackberries, plum, chocolate.
Vanilla cream, strawberries, and raspberries on the palate
Medium plus acidity and medium plus tannins
This wine is really enjoyable. Complex, dry, and a good mix of fruit and earthy flavors.
2023-05-12 St Petersburg FL, Cora's first visit (448 views) | | | Tasted by Winechat63 on 2/11/2023 & rated 92 points: Perhaps best freemark we’ve had. Deep purple cork. Starting to soften. A swirl supplies a good spice flavor. Probably hard to find more, but would. It will be good for at least another 5 (446 views) | | | Tasted by Spsmatthews on 2/2/2023 & rated 91 points: Big fruit - blackcurrant, dark cherry - with secondary aromas and flavors starting to come through. Medium/full bodied with plenty of tannins still offsetting the fruit. Nice balance of fruit and herbs. Not too much oak. (514 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 10/16/2019: Structured, savory, darn that is good Napa Cab. With a ton of tannins. Which makes it work. (1968 views) | | | Tasted by Vtdarush on 7/27/2019 & rated 94 points: Two hour decant. Big black fruit immediately hits your mouth, matched with firm tannins that should ease down over the next few years. Loved it today, but am excited to see how it unfolds in five years. (1570 views) |
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(GREAT source of Addt'l Info)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)Rutherford Rutherford,
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