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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.4 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Es7e2003 on 5/23/2024 & rated 93 points: Medium plus intensity on the nose. Blackberries, cassis, pencil shavings, violets, tobacco and minerality. Medium acidity and mostly resolved sweet tannins. Layered and balanced. Great finish. Lovely stuff. (41 views) | | | Tasted by sfwinelover1 on 12/3/2021 & rated 97 points: Just another evening of good wine and cheer (Chilly Noe Valley): Surprise bottle via coravin pour brought by the ever generous Cyclist to our tasting. On the nose and palate, dark florals, sweet spice, wet earth, a touch of oak, cherries, cassis and mixed red and dark berries. Medium deep purple, medium+ bodied, medium legs. Very present but mostly integrated tannins, medium- acidity, no heat. Good complexity, persistence and intensity. I knew nothing of this winery prior to meeting Cyclist, who’d previously brought one of their CFs, which didn’t move me (subject to my general qualification about not loving CFs), so this was a fabulous surprise. Vibrant, sunny fruit, given a lift by red berries and intense florals and a bit of savoriness by the earthy element, this wine was the superego to Cyclist’s main id contribution, the ‘19 VV Mysterons, the 2 together brilliantly framing much of what I love about Napa CSs. Cyclist tends to like, at least in the early days of our acquaintance, bigger, younger wines than I often do, but this Cab was right in the middle, if anything skewing more toward classic than modern Napa. A great mix of power and elegance, this was beautifully balanced and subtle. The pour I had of this was small, toward the end of our tasting, and without food accompanying it, but it’s a wine I’d welcome having more time to contemplate, to match it with something bloody. While these tastings with lots of folks bringing multiple memorable bottles are wonderful and warm the cockles of sfwl’s steely heart, the downside is that sometimes individual wines don’t get the attention they deserve, and since this, alas, wasn’t left after the tasting, I’ll have to find another for my ruminating, while savoring the excellent memories I had from last night. It’s my understanding that Cyclist was coravining this for the first time last night, but other than vigorous swirling in my glass and the 20 minutes or so it took me to finish my half glass, it had no air, yet it drank very well, making me think that this is a good tasting window, not clear if there’s further upside, but another decade or so of really good life under any circumstances. 97+ (1836 views) | | | Tasted by Cyclist on 12/3/2021 & rated 97 points: SF captures this bottling quite poetically. For once our preferences and palates are completely aligned and I love it! This was a beautiful expression straight from Coravin, giving its best argument that it might be in a beautiful place to open and enjoy now. This had a remarkably beautiful, almost delicate but concentrated floral characteristic to it that beautifully melded with the melted tannins, red fruits, and integrated oak. More red fruit than others, but not in your face, everything here was balanced and felt elegant. Really has come into its own over the last couple years and has left behind the characteristic 2013 tannic power for a balanced, elegant profile highlighting florals and earthiness. A great showing. (1490 views) | | | Tasted by WilliamF17 on 12/17/2020 & rated 92 points: Very dark, opaque red black; Deep black fruit aromas with herb and cassis notes, muted wood notes; Deep flavors, muted black fruits with wood core; Medium full body with firm but rounded tannins; long finish and core. Still needs time to open and resolve. (1265 views) | | | Tasted by gmat5497 on 3/6/2019 & rated 89 points: Disappointed. Rather harsh for a high end wine. (2034 views) | | | Tasted by JJB007 on 7/29/2018 & rated 95 points: another great wine- we decanted for a long period which mad it perfect (2204 views) |
| Crocker & Starr Producer website 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)St. Helena Appellation Napa Valley
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