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| Drinking window: Drink between 2022 and 2025 (based on 116 user opinions) |
| Community Tasting History |
| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.4 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 29 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Tuscany Terry on 2/3/2024 & rated 91 points: This wine is a deep garnet in color. On the nose I get cranberry, chocolate, and black cherry. On tasting I picked up on some oak and a hint of spice. a very enjoyable wine.
The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are slow. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like cranberry, cherry, oak, black pepper and chocolate. It tastes like cranberry, blackberry, cherry, honeysuckle, oak, nutmeg, black pepper and chocolate. The body is medium/full. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity. (186 views) | | | Tasted by Rsokane on 1/8/2023: Sam drank on her own. Don’t know the score and don’t have feedback. (1179 views) | | | Tasted by zimmerman80 on 9/8/2022 & rated 88 points: Decent wine for the price; good, reliable house wine. (1420 views) | | | Tasted by sdwineguru on 6/22/2022 & rated 89 points: Value Lodi, Calif., 2019 Michael-David Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Freakshow, $15. Mid-dark garnet, viscous (14.5 alc.); ripe grape, red and black fruit nose; berries; herbaceous; mid-plus acids; mid-full tannins; long tight berry and jam finish. w/beef, BBQ, picnic fare. 15.5 UC Davis scale, 89 other scales. (1654 views) | | | Tasted by Glenn Gilbert on 4/28/2022 & rated 92 points: This tasting of the 2019 Freakshow Cabernet Sauvignon was done entirely independently of my tasting of 11/12/2021 in CellarTracker, bottom line score of 88; the second bottle, opened on 4/28/2022, had a max 3 mm wine penetration, cork aroma of alcohol and concentrated prunes/plums; long legs, dark purple, opened and kept in the fridge for 48 hours before tasting for this report; the initial tasting was at BJ's Sports Bar in West Palm Beach, paired with their bison burger, with a very favorable impression at the time; the remainder of the wine was brought home, kept in the fridge for 72 hours and tasted again at 9 degrees C; the nose confirms impressions from the cork -- lots of prunes and other stone fruit like dark plums and cherries; full bodied; tannins remain in the background; sweetness and stone-fruitiness continue through the long finish; pair with red meat, such as a medium rare filet mignon (1796 views) | | | Tasted by Kida Girl on 3/19/2022: Good as usual (1891 views) | | | Tasted by DjJoho on 3/14/2022 & rated 86 points: Nastan for rokig (1355 views) | | | Tasted by angelsil@hotmail.com on 1/7/2022 & rated 82 points: Opaque color and strong ethanol and cherry on the nose. Taste is more fruity than I'd expect. Dark cherry and wood overpower any more subtle notes. Wouldn't turn it down, but not seeking more bottles. (1150 views) | | | Tasted by Viper33 on 1/6/2022 & rated 81 points: Solid cab. Not a huge difference between the cab and the petit Syrah - prefer petit Syrah if given the choice but still enjoyable. (953 views) | | | Tasted by Glenn Gilbert on 11/12/2021 & rated 88 points: 14.5% alcohol; real cork, darker than most, with a maximum of 2 mm wine penetration, cork aroma of sweet fruit, sandalwood, hay; medium to heavy weight foil; medium legs, very dark red; nose of yeast, alcohol, citrus, minerals, vanilla; opened, vinturied, and tasted 20 minutes later at about 10 degrees C; full bodied with notes of stone fruit, cassis, dark berries, mangos; in the background are minerals and forest floor -- a little vanilla, or even butterscotch, is in the mix; long finish is thick and syrupy, a little like stewed prunes; pair with fried chicken, St. Louis ribs, wild game (1041 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Michael-David Vineyards 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 Central Valley The Central California Winegrowers (Official site) | Central Valley (California Wine Institute)Lodi Lodi Woodbridge Winegrape Commission | Lodi District Grape Growers Association |
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