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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 71 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by 85CAB on 11/26/2017 & rated 92 points: What a great $20.99 bottle of wine. It’s been stored well with no signs of being anywhere near tired. I’ve got two more bottles and I’ll let them sit for another year or two. (1542 views) | | | Tasted by fmoehl@yahoo.com on 9/4/2016: nice Cab, holding up really well (2370 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 10/3/2015 & rated 92 points: Splendid bouquet of cassis, black raspberries, and cherries with eucalyptus and Big Red gum in the background. Tensile, resolved, showing sweet, fruit flavors, wonderful spices, and a long, gravelly finish. At its peak. (3004 views) | | | Tasted by GA on 4/26/2015 & rated 91 points: 04/15 Good fruit finish and balance - big and bold - good window. 91 pts. (3423 views) | | | Tasted by Ralphie1 on 6/18/2014 & rated 91 points: Very nice. At its peak. Will not benefit from more time. (3949 views) | | | Tasted by LovenTahoe on 6/11/2014 & rated 88 points: Shared this wine with friends last night and we all found it still deep with a moderately dense nose. No signs of 'over-the-hill' except for a few sediments. I think it could last another year if need be. I do have a temperature-controlled cellar so it's been stored well.
The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are very gluey slow. There is moderate sediment in the bottle. It smells and tastes like forest floor. The body is medium. The wine has round texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity. (2959 views) | | | Tasted by ifishtoo on 10/10/2013 & rated 93 points: PNP. Nice brick color, excellent mature Cali cab nose. Rich on palate with 30+ seconds aftertaste. Classic mature California cabernet. Drink up. (2017 views) | | | Tasted by TwoSmoochies on 10/30/2012 & rated 89 points: showing a little age but still some nice fruit. (2881 views) | | | Tasted by dabovino on 2/12/2012 & rated 90 points: Opened the bottle and let it sit for 3 hours. Tasted blind next a Santa Ynez area cab blend and a Sonoma cab. Most tasters mistook this for the Santa Ynez cab because of its fruit. That said, it is a very enjoyable wine with soft tannins and a little tobacco box on the finish. Not a great cab but a very good one that is a pleasure to drink. (3120 views) | | | Tasted by Night Train on 12/31/2010 & rated 88 points: Well-balanced, with decent mouthfeel and finish. However, the nose and the flavors were quite muted. Probably over-the-hill. Turns out the bottle I had seven months ago was a (very pleasant) anomaly. (3193 views) | | | Tasted by Night Train on 6/4/2010 & rated 91 points: I bought four of these at the winery in2004. They were transported and stored identically. The first two I opened, back in January, 2010, were DOA. Not corked, not cooked, not oxidized - just DEAD! This one, however, was TERRIFIC, fresh, vibrant, with a ton of explosive red fruit. I've experienced bottle variation, but this was ridiculous. Great nose, great mouthfeel, and a long, fruity finish. Very well balanced, with ample - but not obtrusive - acids and tannins. Please ignore my earlier comments (unless, of course, my fourth and final bottle turns out to be as bad as the first two). (3425 views) | | | Tasted by Night Train on 1/31/2010 & rated 84 points: SLIGHTLY better than the bottle I had a few weeks ago. Unlike the last time, I detected traces of coffee, vanilla, and earthiness. In other words, it was a little more interesting than the previous bottle. However, this one seemed just as tired, and the total absence of tannins and acids made it a less-than-ideal match with food. (3588 views) | | | Tasted by Night Train on 1/2/2010 & rated 83 points: Good color - no signs of age. Shy nose - just a hint of black fruit. Blackberries on the palate, but that's about all. No tannins and no acid, leaving the impression of sweetness. No complexity whatsoever. Medium body and a short finish. Overall, a big disappointment. (2696 views) | | | Tasted by elbosco on 12/25/2009 & rated 88 points: Decent ready to drink Cab. (2767 views) | | | Tasted by dcdoug2 on 8/30/2009 & rated 90 points: decanted for 2 min. opened up well. nice wine. (2829 views) | | | Tasted by winejnky on 8/22/2009 & rated 88 points: Initially a bit heavy, showing mostly oak and alcohol. After a while smoothes out showing cherry flavors and reminds me of zinfandel with its punch. Provenance 2001 merlot showed better than this on the same night. (2842 views) | | | Tasted by 11mcraig on 7/18/2009 & rated 90 points: Decanted for 30 minutes...opened up nicely. Nice on the nose, plums, cherries, earth, mild tannins with a decent finish. Overall a nice cab! (2914 views) | | | Tasted by FieldingYost on 4/1/2009 & rated 87 points: Loamy, roasted plum on the nose, also blackberry. Ripe black plum, and also secondary notes of coffee, leather. Tannins are faded, and this comes accross as somewhat syrupy, maybe a bit fatigued. I liked it better four years ago (but then, I was into big ripe wines then ... this is a bit ripe for my liking (although the real problem is the lack of acidity and tannin)). (3027 views) | | | Tasted by biggwater on 9/1/2008 & rated 92 points: dense, opened up well after several hours, balanced, tobacco, black fruit (3137 views) | | | Tasted by biggwater on 7/30/2008 & rated 92 points: Deep Deep Color. licorace, incense, and balanced tannins. Alcohol on the nose but balanced on the palate. Fine wine ready to drink. This is why I cellar $30-40 bottles. I believe this drinks like $75+ wines of a current vintage (04-06) (3182 views) | | | Tasted by bhalljr on 6/16/2008 & rated 88 points: Great smell to start but quickly faded. I'd start drinking up if you have some remaining. Not much of a nose after about an hour. (3365 views) | | | Tasted by Arch57 on 5/28/2007 & rated 92 points: My first issue of Wine Enthusiast a few years ago had a cover story on 2001 California Cabs. I collected as many of the 90+ bottles in the under $40 range that I could find and I am glad I did. This has that unmistakeable scent of a Cab, hints of eucalyptus. This wine is really drinking very nicely as I have found most of the 01's are now. Soft and velvet like in the mouth with a good berry finish. (3722 views) | | | Tasted by rothdog on 5/11/2007 & rated 90 points: This wine is showing very well. Although some '01's are closing down right about now, this wine is bright, youthful and exuberant. Ruby red and leaning more toward red fruits than dark, it is a fine example of a valley floor Cabernet. (3727 views) | | | Tasted by Ombibulous on 3/22/2007 flawed bottle: I paid $22.50 for this half bottle. Lots of brett. Unpleasant. Possibly oxidized? I would not buy this wine again. (3759 views) | | | Tasted by rpfarwell on 1/16/2007 & rated 88 points: good, not great. (3851 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, January/Febuary 2004, IWC Issue #112
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| Provenance Vineyards Producer website2001 Provenance Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon RutherfordAlcohol 14.5% by volume. Per back label: "produced from the historic vineyard Georges III, first planted by Georges Latour in 1928, and now owned by the Beckstoffer family. This elegant, voluptuous wine demonstrates the distinctiveness of Napa Valley's Rutherford subappellation." 100% Napa valley. www.provenancevineyards.com.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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