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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.4 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by MJP Hou TX on 11/17/2023 & rated 98 points: Holy smokes this wine is absolutely stunning right now!! Energy that jump right out of the glass with a finish that just goes on forever.
A smart decision by DJ to present this wine along side the 2021 which has all the potential to be as good as my favorite OVR to date.
Early drinking window with 20+ years to go.
I have no doubt this will reach perfection for my palate.
98++ (874 views) | | | Tasted by MJP Hou TX on 8/9/2022 & rated 96 points: One of my favorite Keplinger OVR bottlings to date. I've been wanting to check in on this for a while now and our family trips to the mountains are my favorite place to enjoy special bottles.
Opened side by side with Abreu Madrona Ranch 11. The Keplinger OVR delivers verve with a beautiful mix of red/black bramble fruits. Savory with a touch of sweet, delivered on a long finish. Great right out of the gate at PNP and present energy on day two.
96+ Drink or Hold.
Next bottle 2025 (2072 views) | | | Tasted by Crunge on 12/27/2021 & rated 94 points: PnP and consumed over a couple of hours. Already well integrated and delicious. Dark fruits with a hint of cocoa and silky tannins. WOTN for all four of us. (1301 views) | | | Tasted by citizen1 on 10/29/2020 & rated 95 points: PnP needed time but still really good dark fruit. One hour later angels singing. Well done Helen. (1887 views) | | | Tasted by MJP Hou TX on 8/8/2019 & rated 97 points: Fantastic representation of Oakville by Keplinger! Wow, it's hard to believe this is 2015. PNP with a beautiful balance of fruit and earth. Consumed over two days and it only got better. One of my favorites of the trip.
Tasted along side the following wines in Mountain Village Telluride at 10,000'.
16 Outpost True Vineyard
13 Dakota Shy
12 Odette Reserve
12 Blankiet Rive Droite (4006 views) | | | Tasted by despore on 4/8/2019 & rated 94 points: Stunningly great young Cabernet, so well balanced, excellent mouthfeel. Very well made. Everything is so well integrated, drinks like a 10 or 15-year-old Cabernet, wonder how this will be down the road. (2730 views) | | | Tasted by TXRDW on 3/29/2019 & rated 96 points: What an amazing wine! Decided to buy a few bottles on the recommendation of LITEITONFIRE and I wasn’t disappointed. Started with a few ounces upon opening and the wine was acidic and closed. Decided to decant for about two hours and the wine became a beast. Seductive bouquet of dark, black fruit complimented by a beautiful opaque color, I was soon to be hooked. After two hours of anticipation I found the wine to be at that plateau when the taste screams “I’m at that level where few wines reach”. Notes of bramble, fig, plum and a touch of cedar, this wine is definitely not a fruit bomb. More of an understated elegance that sneaks up on you. 96 for now and some upside with a bit of patience. (2286 views) | | | Tasted by jaylew1 on 2/21/2019 & rated 97 points: As I said a month ago - what an absolute home run the duo of this wine and the 2015 Carte Blanche are. Bravo Helen! as the other poster said. Definitely not a fruit bomb, and definitely not austere. This is not for the AFWE, but not for the cough syrup crowd either. (2551 views) | | | Tasted by LiteItOnFire on 1/20/2019 & rated 96 points: 1.5 hour in decanter. Excellent wine that still needs time but outstanding now. By hour 2 (30 minutes in glass) (with NY Strip) this wine evolves and grows to become a top wine of the vintage without question. Keplinger continues to surprise and impress and I can’t wait to pop one per year and watch it grow. This is not a fruit bomb nor is it austere or too dry. Well done- excellent. (2897 views) | | | Tasted by jaylew1 on 1/14/2019 & rated 96 points: Best cab in many months. Between this and the 2015 Carte Blanche I am a BELIEVER in Helen Keplinger. (1573 views) |
| Keplinger 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)Oakville |
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