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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.8 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | Tasted by EKass on 3/10/2024 & rated 91 points: Closed down. Needs at least another 5 years of bottle age. (219 views) | | Tasted by greedy on 7/26/2023 & rated 93 points: Loved it. But drank a decade too early. Never had this before. Will revisit (576 views) | | Tasted by MC2 Wines on 2/9/2023: Napa 2023: the quieter version; 2/6/2023-2/11/2023 (Napa/Sonoma California): The baby of the group. It’s fresh with lots of berries - mostly a black raspberry note. Darker style of wine. Decent tannin. Too young for the multi-dimensional flavors that you get from the other wines. Still quite primary. (1311 views) |
| By Jonathan Cristaldi Decanter, Freemark Abbey producer profile (5/4/2022) (Freemark Abbey, Sycamore Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Rutherford, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling JamesSuckling.com (3/15/2022) (Freemark Abbey Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Rutherford Sycamore Vineyard, United States) Subscribe to see review text. | By Panel Tasting Decanter, Californian Cabernet Sauvignon 2017/18 panel tasting results (2/1/2022) (Freemark Abbey, Sycamore Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Rutherford, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Antonio Galloni Vinous, The 2019 Napa Valley Cabernets: A Deep Dive (Jan 2022) (1/1/2022) (Freemark Abbey Cabernet Sauvignon Sycamore Vineyard Napa Red) Subscribe to see review text. | NOTE: Scores and reviews are the property of Decanter and JamesSuckling.com and Vinous. (manage subscription channels) |
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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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