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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 196 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Mpalumbo on 12/11/2023: Great nose and color. Still has strong tannins on the finish. Flavor fades out at the end of the bottles (305 views) | | | Tasted by Mpalumbo on 12/11/2023 & rated 89 points: Great nose, Still a fair amount of tannins considering the age. Decanted for about 20 min. Faded out and bitter towards the end. (278 views) | | | Tasted by wineloverla on 11/12/2022: fantastic and was ready to drink (847 views) | | | Tasted by Bosbevok on 6/10/2022 & rated 94 points: Deep maroon and a garnet youthful rim still. Dark red fruit with a little barnyard undertone on the nose. Some minty liquorice as well. A beautiful silky mouthfeel opens to a baked berry compote and strawberry jam. While almost at perfect equilibrium of constituents, the wine is still young with lively tanin. Many years still to go. Excellent and full bodied. (1183 views) | | | Tasted by Monk’s Magic Sauce on 12/12/2021: Hank n Seana (1349 views) | | | Tasted by mwmanby5@gmail.com on 3/13/2021: Drank with Dave after driving home from Florida via Nashville, TN. Stayed at Max & Keely’s (1670 views) | | | Tasted by chuckos77 on 11/1/2020 & rated 90 points: Ok wine, nothing special (1992 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 3/29/2020 & rated 93 points: Still an adolescent but it’s beginning to show its potential. Old World perfume of dark fruit, black cherries, pastille, and a budding forest in the spring. The palate is confident, structured, and very elegant, with silky, black raspberry liqueur wreathed in perfectly integrated oak. Finishes long, generous, and complex. Lots of upside. (1652 views) | | | Tasted by gregwinz on 12/15/2019 & rated 91 points: Round, smooth, relatively deep but easy to drink, no hard edges yet enough complexity to keep it interesting (2383 views) | | | Tasted by SCosgrove on 2/9/2019 & rated 90 points: Nice (2869 views) | | | Tasted by UMhemePA on 11/8/2018 & rated 88 points: Deep red color, vegetal nose, Forest floor, mushroom, that all carries through on the palate. Soft tannins, medium finish. Full body. Overall not impressed. The vegetal notes are too much with out the fruit to balance it. (2886 views) | | | Tasted by JDandTammy on 11/3/2018: Tainted, musty smell.... (2489 views) | | | Tasted by Radboy on 2/23/2018 & rated 93 points: Terrific old school style Napa Cab. Sweet friut, rustic, earthy tannins. (3484 views) | | | Tasted by Dionysusx on 2/14/2018 & rated 91 points: Bold and rusticly tannic yet smooth. Dark, inky berry flavors dominate the mouthfeel while subtle vanilla notes, oak, leather and tobacco round out the long finish. (2621 views) | | | Tasted by gew71walsh on 11/18/2017 & rated 93 points: On the palate, berries and currant. Nose is similar. Tannins subdued and integrated. Medium long finish. Great with a Beef Tenderloin. (2502 views) | | | Tasted by mmesser on 8/13/2017 & rated 93 points: Wonderful wine! (2961 views) | | | Tasted by Bicycler52 on 12/15/2016 & rated 92 points: Wonderful!! (4433 views) | | | Tasted by Zuperdaave on 12/11/2016 & rated 95 points: Delicious! (3219 views) | | | Tasted by wineshaman on 12/8/2016 & rated 92 points: Decated and poured, a rich, lush cab with plenty of smooth dark fruit, ready to drink but should hold for a few more years however. (3245 views) | | | Tasted by jimmieL on 10/16/2016 & rated 94 points: Extraordinary example of a California Cab. The fruit, tannins, and aging come through as only Napa can deliver. I believe this has years left in it. (3293 views) | | | Tasted by phynes on 10/4/2016 & rated 91 points: Tasted the Pichon Lalande 2003 alongside the Shafter One Point Five from 2008 and Cakebread 2009. The Pichon was more fragrant with more finesse, the Shafer more powerful and fruit forward and the Cakebread somewhere in between. People voted in different ways with the overall view that "all three were equally lovely but different" (2671 views) | | | Tasted by rbfoote on 9/16/2016 & rated 88 points: Deep red colour but light body. Hints of mushroom and earth, leather tones too. Rounds out with berry flavour at the end. Very easy to drink but expected more complexity. (1649 views) | | | Tasted by Vinofitz on 4/2/2016 & rated 92 points: Feel like this was on the back edge but still great. Nose of earth and even a bit of mold but not represented in the mouth. Less sugar now and more leather, light tobacco. Wonderful to experience it at this point but glad I did not wait longer. (2854 views) | | | Tasted by moega on 4/2/2016 & rated 90 points: Easy drinking, medium finish, nothing spectacular or noteworthy, yet pleasant nevertheless (2610 views) | | | Tasted by wineshaman on 3/26/2016 & rated 93 points: Outstanding showing, incredible nose of violets, Bing cherry,fresh sliced strawberries . The palate was almost as impressive as the nose, with outstanding balance between fruit, acid and minerals, totally intigrated tannins. I rarely rate any wine much higher than a 93 and this rating might be an understatement, yum! (2475 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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WineAlign (6/8/2013)
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WineAlign (6/7/2013)
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| Cakebread Cellars Producer website
Over 30 years ago, Jack Cakebread came to photograph the Napa Valley for a book and while there, he casually mentioned his interest in one day owning a vineyard to some family friends who had a ranch in Rutherford. When he returned home that afternoon, the phone rang and it was the family friends offering to sell their property. He headed back up to the valley that same afternoon to make his best offer, and Cakebread Cellars was born. As the Cakebread family reflects upon the many profound changes in the wine industry over the last 33 years, such as innovative farming techniques and new methods of reaching out to consumers, they note that their key values have remained the same. Dedication to making the highest quality wines and a commitment to family has followed a continuum as their first small vineyard has grown into a thriving internationally distributed wine company.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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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