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| Drinking window: Drink between 2013 and 2016 (based on 49 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 87.6 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 43 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Wine4Cam on 9/1/2019 & rated 85 points: Fruit forward Cab with hints of cassis on the nose. Rich cherry fruit and cassis on the pallet, with an balanced oak spicy finish. Decanted and aerated. (851 views) | | | Tasted by DbertCellar on 8/10/2014 & rated 87 points: Cherry and red current with vanilla. (4508 views) | | | Tasted by DbertCellar on 4/6/2014 & rated 87 points: Soft like a merlot. Cherry and vanilla. (4979 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 3/13/2014 & rated 86 points: Burgundy appearance. Cherry, red currant, underbrush, and vanilla scents. Mid-bodied, dry, and linear, with decent precision, and a note of sugarless, cherry-flavored, hard candy. Easy going. (4977 views) | | | Tasted by Georgenenni on 1/6/2014 & rated 90 points: On the thin side, but good balance. Tart cherry, candy-like but dry, low acid level. (5658 views) | | | Tasted by Tsubasa on 9/28/2013 & rated 88 points: Lovely smooth tannic, straight forward and fruity. (5884 views) | | | Tasted by Tsubasa on 6/17/2013 & rated 89 points: Simple straight forward, I liked it, will buy more. Medium body, fruity and medium tannic. (3648 views) | | | Tasted by ecola on 5/23/2013 & rated 89 points: Aromas and flavors of dark cherry and some black pepper spice. Also there is a smokey cedar quality present. Medium to full body and dry on the palate. Feels a little tight after an hour decant, but does loosen up with food. Nice wine with high qpr. (3504 views) | | | Tasted by dchisholm on 3/22/2013 & rated 88 points: Raspberry,chocolate and spice on the nose. Raspberry, pencil lead and dark fruit on a long smooth finish. An excellent companion for a BBQ steak. (3666 views) | | | Tasted by Tomdos on 2/23/2013 & rated 92 points: Smooth and tasty! Amy really liked it. (3708 views) | | | Tasted by RobertDwyer on 2/13/2013 & rated 86 points: $14 for a 375 ml bottle on Virgin America. Ample aromatics and flavorful but it runs a little hotter than I'd like for 13.5%. A little rough around the edges at times. M (3569 views) | | | Tasted by Johnc3 on 1/4/2013 & rated 84 points: Weak grape juicy lacking in body and tannins. Tried this gift bottle after opening it to cook with. Don't recommend it. (2868 views) | | | Tasted by SonomaWilliam on 11/3/2012 & rated 88 points: Wente media samples blind tasting: Another solid vineyard designate from Wente for $15, not teaming with megapurple or oak sawdust as one might have expected, but instead a drinkable cabernet in the under $20 category.
Tasted blind as part of a series of wines provided for media, requested to be tasted blind.
médium purple color
blackberry, plum, black tea, spice on the nose
Simple, easy to drink in the mouth, red fruits, not dominated by oak.
13.5% alc
Aged for 14 months in a combination of American, French, Eastern European, and neutral oak (3570 views) | | | Tasted by jmasterj on 8/14/2012 & rated 88 points: Very nice, subtile cab. Cherry/berry/plum. Oak took back row on this one but was still in the audience. Excellent for light affair. (3222 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 7/17/2012: Where did the Wentes go? Where did this come from. Tasty stuff. What is the price? Not bad at all at $14.99 or so. (3048 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Wente Vineyards Producer websiteCabernet 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 |
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