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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.7 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by pdadams66 on 2/23/2024 & rated 91 points: Fantastic, aging gracefully (but slowly). Intensely Bordeaux-like. Now or in a few years. (103 views) | | | Tasted by pdadams66 on 12/29/2022 & rated 91 points: Drinking well now, but a few more years to go. So Bordeaux in its aspect. (353 views) | | | Tasted by pdadams66 on 8/15/2022 & rated 90 points: A year and a half since the last bottle. Really wonderful. On day 2 this is very reminiscent of a high quality Pauillac or Margaux. Will last a few more years. (390 views) | | | Tasted by pdadams66 on 12/1/2020 & rated 90 points: As previous, but with more Bordeaux-like flavors. Green pepper and dense plum and toasty blackberry fruit. Good now, but has 5+ years left. (712 views) | | | Tasted by pdadams66 on 5/25/2020 & rated 89 points: Deep dark red center, red rim with some signs of age.
Very herbal (rosemary, a little cumin), blackcurrant, some blackberry.
Closed entry, lighter red fruit, some oak, high acid and tannin, cocoa, great complex flavors on the back end (some cassis, sweet corn, pyrazine), good length.
Hard to know where this will go, very backward right now, needs another 5 years - one the for the long haul with potential upside. (785 views) | | | Tasted by cpeddy on 10/7/2015 & rated 88 points: Agree with Tanzer - Musty flavors and acidic finish. Shows just a bit of promise at times. (2572 views) | | | Tasted by Bradetti on 12/28/2014 & rated 93 points: The Tanbark Hill was my first californian Cabernet Sauvignon. And I need to point out that I am not really a fan of that grape, because all Bordeaux wines I tasted so far were not really fun for me (even the expensive ones...). In a "sentimental" moment I bought this Togni-wine and I was positively surprised. Right after pulling out the cork very intense nose of black fruits, forest, earth and tobacco. On the palate the tannins are nicely integrated, the acidity is not in the foreground, nice length. On day 2 the black fruit nose turned more into a red fruit nose.
Very nice wine and for me personnaly the FIRST Cabernet Sauvignon I would buy again. (2369 views) | | | Tasted by ledocq on 12/21/2012: Good lord, don't make the same mistake I did and open this thing yet. it's a zygote still. It's definitely complex, it'll grow up to be a good-looking kid and all, but not for years. (3704 views) |
| By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (6/21/2011)
(Philip Togni, Tanbark Hill Cabernet Sauvignon Spring Mountain District Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, May/June 2011, IWC Issue #156
(Philip Togni Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Tanbark Hill) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Philip Togni 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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Spring Mountain DistrictWikipedia article on the Spring Mountain Distric AVA. |
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