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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.2 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by jww on 4/3/2022 & rated 90 points: very nice Ca Cab
big nose forward fruit (429 views) | | | Tasted by Margaux Bro on 11/23/2017 & rated 93 points: Opened with friends for dinner alongside a 1999 Cos d'Estournel and a 2012 Alto Moncayo Garnacha. It was super tight immediately after opening and I was worried it wasn't going to taste well for dinner guests. Those fears were unwarranted as immediately after decanting the wine opened up beautifully. Although it's a new world wine, I didn't find it so fruit forward that it was in another league from the cos d'estournel. They complimented each other well although it was apparent that the tref probably isn't quite in drinking window while the cos was. The tannins where still very bold so I see room for improvement over the next 5 years. Having tasted this, I won't touch my 2011 tref reserve until 2021+ (1950 views) | | | Tasted by Jwmumm on 2/13/2016 & rated 93 points: Wow. This is an amazing cab which is well worth the price! Enjoy! (2322 views) | | | Tasted by Rick 4 Wine on 10/18/2013 & rated 88 points: This was the reserve cab at the winery. It's obviously a bit young but for $100 it's decidedly less well integrated than other wines for the price. They are very proud of their all estate grapes but most of their estate is on the valley floor. Most of their valley floor wines probably have too high of yields. This wine seems to be missing intelligent blending of different blocks...at least for the price. I have heard this has some mountain fruit, but I'm not sure there is much variety in the areas because there is still lingering astringent flavors like menthol and eucalyptus that overpower the fruit. Tannins are strong - especially mid palette -- with some heat that lingers. This wine will be better with age, but 2010 was a challenging year and this is not a good wine for the price. (2488 views) |
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Vinous, Vintage Retrospective: The 2010 Napa Valley Cabernets (May 2020) (5/1/2020)
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A visit to Trefethen winery estate in Oak Knoll District, Napa Valley -
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2013/05/trefethen-family-napa-valley-estate.htmlCabernet 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 SauvignonReserve The Wine News | Wine Country This Week | Wine Lover's PageUSAAmerican 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) |
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