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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.1 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 34 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Combo on 7/23/2022 & rated 93 points: Drinking GREAT right now. (491 views) | | | Tasted by Combo on 4/17/2020 & rated 93 points: Drinking great - right now! (1102 views) | | | Tasted by TallMikeWine on 1/2/2018 & rated 92 points: NEW YEARS EVE: This was delicious. Lots of red fruit, combined with a great deal of baking spices. Think cinnamon with no hint of sweetness. Almost to an odd degree with the spice. But this was a great full-bodied Cab, with just enough age on it to show some good depth. (2265 views) | | | Tasted by Combo on 11/10/2017 & rated 93 points: Drinking GREAT right now. Must be at or close to peak. (2397 views) | | | Tasted by Mannm24 on 5/19/2016 & rated 93 points: I loved this wine. Decanted for only an hour and the wine continued to open as we drank. Deep rich purple color and bold texture and hints of cherry and chocolate. Last note. Would love to find another (3871 views) | | | Tasted by Endodr on 3/20/2016 & rated 92 points: This is a really great, bold Napa Cabernet. It has a very deep opaque purple color with a ruby red rim. After an hour decant, it has an expressive nose of crushed violets, sweet spices, and ripe dark fruit. This wine tastes voluptuous and fruity with flavors of blackberries, black cherries, and plums, There are also favors of leather and mocha. It has great intensity of flavors, and is quite supple in texture with a very silky mouthfeel. The wine is full bodied with excellent balance, tangy acidity, and marked complexity. Very high quality.
[Drank alongside Honig Cabernet 2011; The Rockaway is much more complex and full bodied] (3491 views) | | | Tasted by Bam_Man on 3/17/2015 & rated 92 points: A big, brooding Alexander Valley Cabernet. Has the trademark Sonoma nose of dried dark fruits, bramble, herbs and spice - along with a noticeable amount of heat. Full-bodied and very rich. There's phenomenal depth and intensity to the tangy blackberry and dark currant fruit here. Lovely notes of spice, licorice and mesquite linger on the long, juicy finish, though a touch of heat is evident at the very end. Huge and very powerful, but not too over-the-top. This is delcious now, but should be even better in a few years' time after it softens a bit and the alcohol integrates.
50+5+12+17+8=92 (4272 views) | | | Tasted by BigTex22 on 7/27/2014 & rated 93 points: Decanted for a few hours. Classic cab, well rounded, great nose and mouthfeel. Enjoyed with steak dinner. Great QPR for a top flight cab. Drink now or hold for several more years. VERY GOOD. (3974 views) | | | Tasted by BigTex22 on 3/13/2014 & rated 90 points: Not as good as last time. Good fruit, smooth tannins, but a wee bit of overly high alcohol on the finish. GOOD. (4082 views) | | | Tasted by kmoloo on 11/28/2013 & rated 93 points: rich, concentrated, intense, dark fruit & earth, glad I have 5 more of these. (3204 views) | | | Tasted by BigTex22 on 8/3/2013 & rated 93 points: Very nice wine. Splash decanted. Musty nose that cleared to nice medium bodied fruit. This has several years left on it - wife loves it. Recommend. VERY GOOD. (3863 views) | | | Tasted by webbaker on 4/11/2013 & rated 93 points: Second tasting with similar notes. Pop & pour, minimal sediment. Nice fruit flavors, touch of field flowers. Kept about half a bottle in the decanter over night, did not fair so well the next day, strange aroma of raw egg. Even so, a strong effort, and I somewhat discount this day 2 effect. I've noticed that some wines don't do well overnight in the decanter, while others (notably, Seavey) almost require it. (3384 views) | | | Tasted by webbaker on 1/13/2013 & rated 94 points: Decanted about 4 hours and began tasting. Drank head to head with 05 Arrowood Reserve Especiale. Very smilar styles. Nice balance between fruit and aromatics. I was surprised, this was quite good. I'd buy more. (3093 views) | | | Tasted by SonomaWilliam on 4/30/2012 & rated 92 points: A 700 case production from Rodney Strong, made at their special 'winery with in a winery'
Color: Inky translucent purple.
Nose: Black cherry, notes of spice cocoa & earth. Very elegant.
Mouth: Expressive wine that drinks well now, would lay down for years. Notes of black cherry, dark fruit, plum, black tea.
Soft tannins, lot of bottle age left with good acidity and tannins
100% cabernet
15.5% alc (3969 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Tom Klein
Proprietor
A fourth generation California farmer, Tom earned a business degree from Stanford and spent the first part of his career as a management consultant at the San Francisco office of the prestigious global management firm McKinsey & Company. One project during this time was evaluating a small winery in the Russian River Valley called Rodney Strong Vineyards and, in a chance meeting, he was introduced to founder Rod Strong and winemaker Rick Sayre. Already developing an interest in wine, this encounter planted a seed that would grow into a lifelong passion.
Rick Sayre
Head Winemaker
Rick began his winemaking career at the age of 19 as an assistant winemaker and cellar master at Simi Winery in Sonoma County. He had the opportunity to train under the world-renowned winemaster André Tchelistcheff, who instilled in his young trainee a deep passion for the art of winemaking and a desire to not only master his craft, but continually push the boundaries of creativity. “André taught me that a winemaker must live with his wine,” Rick recalls, “from walking the vineyards to the careful craft of guiding the wine into bottle. Even the smallest details can have a lasting effect.”
When Rod Strong decided to take a step back from the demanding role of winemaker, he called upon Rick Sayre, who joined the team at Rodney Strong Vineyards in 1979. In more than three decades in the cellars, Rick has guided the wine collection to include world-class Reserve, Symmetry and Single-Vineyard releases, an outstanding line of Estate wines and best-in-class Sonoma County wines that continue to please vintage after vintage. His voracious appetite for new winemaking knowledge has taken him around the world, including trips to the wine regions of France, Australia, New Zealand and Spain
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 SauvignonRockaway On weinlagen-infoUSAAmerican 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyAlexander Valley Alexander Valley Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia
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