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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.7 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Quiet Lion on 5/6/2022 & rated 96 points: Decanted briefly. Gorgeous wine with the gritty earth you find in the best 2015s and the heightened acid Morlet does so well. The palate is full and delicately balanced with some extra coffee notes above the red and black currants. Super delicious and room for improvement with more time. (1410 views) | | | Tasted by tc from santee on 2/23/2022 & rated 95 points: This delicious wine from To Kalon heritage vineyard has room to improve. Maybe another 10-15 years. All the reviewer were elequent in there discriptions. Try it🍷 (1264 views) | | | Tasted by AllRed on 11/27/2021 & rated 92 points: 4th Saturday Group: Uptown Brown Bag: Double blind. Dark inky color with aromas of herbs and black fruit. Full-bodied and quite tannic; firm bordering on austere. Black fruit and chocolate flavors with a long finish. Needs time. 92+ pts, with plenty of upside at peak. (M&R) (1635 views) | | | Tasted by brettay on 2/12/2021 & rated 96 points: Classic Napa valley floor Cabernet. Black currant, black cherry, dark chocolate, marzipan, fig, tobacco, vanilla, and cedar. Rich, complex, but not overdone. Pretty much as good as California gets. Could use a bit more lift and savory elements to balance out the richness. (1682 views) | | | Tasted by Bob23 on 1/10/2021 & rated 93 points: Getting to interesting, but still pretty ripe and one note. Hopefully some of the oak recedes more over the next couple of years. (1547 views) | | | Tasted by Quiet Lion on 9/4/2019 & rated 95 points: Pop and pour. This seems to be Morlet's most accessible cuvee for drinking young so I decided to pop one over dinner. At first, sweet fruit over full body, then the powdered sugar faded and it was all silky To-Kalon fruit with firm structure supporting it. Just a well-made, modern Oakville Cab with a touch more acid than most. Delicious. (1571 views) |
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Vinous, Sonoma & Napa Valley Supplement 2018 (Jul 2018) (7/18/2018)
(Morlet Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Cœur De Vallée Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jeb Dunnuck
JebDunnuck.com, Brilliance From Sonoma (6/5/2018)
(Morlet Family Cabernet Sauvignon Coeur de Vallee) Login and sign up and see review text. |
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| Morlet Family 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 Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Oakville |
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