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| Drinking window: Drink between 2022 and 2029 (based on 2 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.2 pts. and median of 87 pts. in 17 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by RockinCabs on 1/30/2024 & rated 87 points: Drank over two nights, and this really started to come apart on the second day. There is an initial richness, dark berries, graphite and floral note that is quite nice. However it really fray's as it opens and the jammy fruit element others have noted takes over. (469 views) | | | Tasted by Goofienewfy on 8/13/2023: Decent but nothing to write home about or to hold onto. Got some plumb, vanilla some oak but a little underwhelmed. (514 views) | | | Tasted by manny651 on 7/15/2023 & rated 87 points: good second bottle, agree not the qpr that was advertised, but still a nice smooth cab with black cherry palate, lacks tannins and body (442 views) | | | Tasted by YaBoi_CarloRossi on 6/17/2023 & rated 80 points: Halfway decent but light aroma of berries. Pretty flavorless. Going to use my other bottles as cooking wine. Don’t think I’ll buy an NDA wine from wine access ever again after this. (532 views) | | | Tasted by Rbhan12 on 9/8/2022 & rated 86 points: Similar experience as prior note. A total waste of calories. (1427 views) | | | Tasted by JT4 on 7/14/2022: Good everyday cab (1296 views) | | | Tasted by sean7711 on 4/14/2022 & rated 92 points: Upping my score 1 point since last tasting a few months ago. We had this bottle after finishing a 2019 Outpost Cab. While not as good as the potential on that bottle, this one was more ready to go than that bottle. It gave off some red jello notes on the nose (girlfriend's tasting descriptor!). More red fruited, but accessible. Good weeknight wine. (2173 views) | | | Tasted by JT4 on 4/2/2022: Very good everyday Napa Valley cab (1456 views) | | | Tasted by drmarc61 on 3/11/2022 & rated 89 points: For the price, the wine is what I expected. I can understand the mixed reviews. Strong stewed plum with some cocoa and cedar notes. I find that for a table wine, you get a good wine with prominent characteristics without much complexity. I enjoyed it for what its worth. (1555 views) | | | Tasted by iamandyc on 3/8/2022 & rated 86 points: Blah again. Nothing horrible...just boring. I really need to leave these alone for a year to see if it can develop beyond a party wine for beer drinkers. (1395 views) | | | Tasted by ChopperWine on 2/21/2022 & rated 85 points: Blueberry flavored maple syrup. (1227 views) | | | Tasted by Rbhan12 on 1/29/2022 & rated 86 points: Opened in the glass for 2 hours.
The color is deep red/ruby but it's more transparent than I expected. Nose is pretty faint, but I would say dark red berries and cherries, maybe some oak support but nothing distinctly identifiable. Palate is medium full body, same dark red fruits, little bit of acid, no tannin to speak of. Finish is pretty lackluster but mimics the palate. Tails off quickly with dark red fruit and maybe a little bit of crushed rock over time.
Are you guys sure we're drinking the same wine? This isn't very good. Doesn't hold a candle to the other WineAccess NDAs like Yesterday 18, Concept Album 16, Radio Silence 17/18, Editorial 18, or even Phoenix 17. Reminds me a lot of the disastrous Ringer 19 but without as much residual sugar. Maybe I had an off bottle but I haven't had much bottle variation with the WA NDAs.
Drink now, I have no reason to believe there is cellaring potential here. (1560 views) | | | Tasted by sean7711 on 1/27/2022 & rated 91 points: Rockincabs nails the note. I think this will improve with time and you can tell the juice is pretty solid. I gave this a 1 hr decant and ~1 week from shipment before trying. 91 for now with an uptick of a few points with more time. (1911 views) | | | Tasted by RockinCabs on 1/25/2022 & rated 91 points: Nose: red berries, black cherry, and bits of blueberry. Creamy florals, mocha and tobacco. Palate: great feel and dimension with more red and black berries, graphite, tobacco and subtle spice. Finish: complete and beautiful with ripe tannin that stacks on the back palate.
Early notes on this were lack luster, but I believe that this is a wine where the pleasure us in the subtlety. A slow burn that needed several hours to give everything it has.
Not overpowering with big fruit, strong tannin or oak. A balanced expression of the west Oakville hills.
Update: Second bottle fairly consistent with the first, but the nose has pulled back and was more mono-noted (1404 views) | | | Tasted by iamandyc on 1/24/2022: Tried a bottle from a recent shipment. Drank over 2 days. Seems young as expected. nothing too serious or memorable at this stage. Hope it develops some over the next months or so. (1668 views) |
| 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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