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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.1 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by nkromberg on 10/24/2020 & rated 94 points: Brought to share with friends at Corkscrew. The aroma was great. Strawberry and dark fruit. Taste was surprisingly smooth. Deep purple color. (990 views) | | | Tasted by Tvall13 on 3/11/2017 & rated 93 points: Wow. Awesome cab Franc. None of the vegetal notes that can sometimes plague the grape. Excellent expression of Cabernet franc (2350 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 2/8/2017 & rated 91 points: Crocker & Starr: Bright purple color. Beautiful dark but vibrant plum and currant fruit on the nose, along with sweet pipe tobacco, eucalyptus, pine forest and slight notes of vanilla and clove. Full-bodied and structured but maintains a fresh appeal and lively acidity. Juicy black currant and dark plum fruit is doused in charcoal, tobacco barn, black pepper glaze, along with vanilla, cedar and coffee mixed in nicely. Very pretty and silky despite a bold presence on the palate, this has plenty of time to open up in the cellar. From the Crocker Vineyard. Aged 20 months in 80% new French oak, includes a 1% shot of Petit Verdot. (2150 views) |
| Crocker & Starr Producer website Cabernet Franc Varietal character (Appellation America) | Wines & Vines articleUSAAmerican 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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