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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by gjv115 on 5/15/2024: Pnp. It's got a $300 nose. The palate is 2-3 years past prime, I'd guess. Elegant and enjoyable but just boring. Will it grow into the nose? Maybe but I don't see where that's coming from. No stuffing. Nothing to complain about but nothing to talk about either. Really enjoyable just for the olfactory experience. (112 views) | | | Tasted by Brew4711 on 1/9/2022 & rated 93 points: This is a really nice bottle. Still very tight and I'd wait another couple years to open another. Once open has sour cherry, currant, dark berry flavors without much oak. This bottle had slight touch of oxidation (very slight) but hopefully just a cork issue and didn't really detract from the overall pleasure of a solid above average wine. (1308 views) | | | Tasted by Jaws4096 on 12/12/2021 & rated 93 points: Decanted through a coffee filter for 2 hours with no sediment to speak of. More European in style. Vibrant acidity, prominent toasted oak, and firm tannin balanced with moderate fruit. Drinking well but likely stronger in 3-5 years, with plenty of life left for a decade or two. (1128 views) | | | Tasted by Jim P - Las Vegas on 10/14/2018 & rated 94 points: This wine was surprising good when you consider its relative young age. Taste great now and promises to get even better in a few years. (3174 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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