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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.4 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 20 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by junetoaugust on 1/18/2022 & rated 93 points: Much improved from my prior experience, detailed note to come. (651 views) | | | Tasted by Bodyfxr on 11/7/2020 & rated 91 points: Decanted for 45 minutes. Dark berries and chocolate on the nose and palate. Tannins are well integrated. Drinking beautifully. Full bodied and pretty well balanced but somewhat pedestrian. A well made lush wine but lacking some depth. Still delicious though. Drink up. (884 views) | | | Tasted by Borrejac on 7/22/2020 & rated 86 points: Full bodied wine. Oaky, dark fruit, cedar and chocolade. Dry and soft tannins, complex with long aftertaste. (1029 views) | | | Tasted by oenophilemoose on 3/10/2019 & rated 93 points: Decanted for 30 mins and vigorously swirled. Modestly aromatic, elegant dark fruit accompanied by a slightly cloying finish with very firm and drying tannins. Simply outstanding for my palate. (1489 views) | | | Tasted by Bodyfxr on 11/18/2018 & rated 92 points: Poured through an aerator and decanted. Big nose of jammy fruits with a whiff of ETOH. Inky purple in hue. Full bodied and big. Jammy dark fruits and dark chocolate with hints of espresso. The alcohol is present but not overbearing. This wine could use a long decant. For a 10 y/o cab it is drinking pretty well at the moment but could go about another 10 years. I'm going to sit on my holdings to see where this goes. (1503 views) | | | Tasted by Huff on 10/14/2018 & rated 90 points: Nose: dark berry, whiff of herb or mentho, hint of white pepper, vanilla, leather
Taste: chocolate, tea
Finish:pretty long, ok tannins but not really “silky,” ok integration (1219 views) | | | Tasted by Huff on 9/21/2018 & rated 88 points: Nose: crushed blackberry, a little petroleum, red dark fruit generally, hint of blueberry like slightly baked cobbler style, wet leather, eucalyptus (but I often mix that up with the alcohol flavor).
Taste: bright yet ripe cherry, pretty grippy tannins for the age but do not detract, cigar box, black tea, wet gravel. Tannins not fully integrated on not fine grained but again not to distracting.
Finish: long but the herbaceous bitter tinge from those tannins comes more out in end.
88. But I don’t grade inflate. This is a pretty solid wine but don’t think it is worth the $73 CT calculated avg price but a great deal from Cameron Hughes as part of a vertical that had price of about $45. (1140 views) | | | Tasted by wabi47 on 4/23/2018 & rated 90 points: P/P with citrus and herbal notes to start; opens up quickly with smooth mixed berry and good balance. Not sure why this costs so much. (1181 views) | | | Tasted by GWEdwards on 4/17/2018 & rated 91 points: Very nice dark berry with currant undertones. Drinking beautfully (901 views) | | | Tasted by wino121 on 4/9/2018 & rated 92 points: Wow, terrific bottle, Gerhard you will be missed.
Cheers! (866 views) | | | Tasted by RJHump on 5/30/2017 & rated 89 points: Not one of the better bottles of Delectus we have enjoyed. (1232 views) | | | Tasted by TannicBeast on 12/10/2016 & rated 91 points: This is a really dark, bold and powerful expression of hillside Cabernet. It is still youthful on the nose and tight on the palate. It is still very well structured, and is likely to do well for several more years. (1317 views) |
| Delectus 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 Sonoma CountyMendocino County |
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