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| Community Tasting Notes (average 96 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Mrbuzz on 8/2/2019 & rated 97 points: Where do these beauties keep coming from?!?! Last had two killer bottles back in 2016...still more in the cellar! Looks like I picked up a 4 pack on WB in 16 for $25 per. I'll blind ANYONE in a First Growth tasting, and if this doesn't win or place...I'll give you my cellar!! ;-)
This bottle even better than the last...dark and youthful with perfect integration and polished balance. Full bodied and layered with sweet berry fruits, currants, boysenberry jam...silky tannins, yet still has a firm cedar and tobacco dry spice kick. Plenty youthful acidity...aged complexities of menthol, leather, dried tobacco leaves, cigar box, licorice, damp cellar...wonderful florals of crushed violets, cherry blossoms and earth spice. SO classic SO plush...aged to perfection...a fine Bordeaux kissed with Ca sunshine! In awe of this wine. (859 views) | | | Tasted by Mrbuzz on 12/23/2016: for todd and laura's 25th anniv. another outstanding bottle! (1131 views) | | | Tasted by Mrbuzz on 11/3/2016 & rated 95 points: Classic! For those of you who missed out on drinking the Chateau Souverain wines in the early days because they were cheapo wines...shame on you! Some of the best Calif Cabs I've ever had are from these guys.....the 92 Winemaker's Reserve the best of all time...this 91 is close! The regular 91 rocks hard as well....the Winemaker's is beautifully dark and youthful...fully aged and integrated....plumberry, cherry, currants, boysenberry jam.....soft leathery tannins, yet still has a nice cedar/tobacco dry spice kick to it. The fruit is totally still sweet, not drying at all....and youthful with a good dose of acidity....very complex flavors...menthol, aged nuttiness, dried tobacco leaves, cigar box, licorice, plum liqueur, damp cellar. Just pure CLASSIC old school balance here......fine Bordeaux kissed with Calif. sunshine! Drink these all day long! Only knock on these older Ca. wines are the corks....so dry and brittle...even the Durand couldn't pull this one out all the way. (1234 views) |
| Souverain Producer website
As described on the history page, this winery has variously been referred to as Souverain, Souverain of Rutherford and Chateau Souverain. They are ALL the same winery making the same wines, so on CellarTracker we have standardized on just Souverain.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 Sonoma CountyMendocino CountyAlexander Valley Alexander Valley Winegrowers Association | Wikipedia
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