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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.7 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 12 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by bavaur on 3/6/2021 & rated 89 points: Decanted for two hours and served at cellar temperature. Cork fragmented everywhere but sieved most of it out. Definitely lots of bricking round the edges. Initially very austere on the nose but opens up slightly with some graphite. On the palate this is fairly stewed and lacking much fruit, but the mineral/graphite streak holds this up with some red cherries hanging on in there. Not very pleasurable by itself, but paired really well with pan fried liver that really accentuated the minerality. Crazy how low alcohol these cabs were back in the day. (694 views) | | | Tasted by OldHick95 on 8/22/2020: Diminished but hanging in there surprisingly well. Bright cherry acidity dominates with a hint of dried herbs. Nice sweetness on the finish balanced the acid. (774 views) | | | Tasted by Ajnate on 1/1/2014: After about 18 most of disappointment with several prior bottles, this bottle actually reminded me of what I loved about Freemark Ab bey Sycamore. Clearly a gentle and older California Cab, this bottle still reflected a harmonious balance of fruit and structure, soft but still flavorful and with enough remaining tannins to remain enjoyable. past its prime, but lovely. (3359 views) | | | Tasted by jgkost on 7/6/2013 & rated 87 points: Magnum properly stored. Way past prime, flat with little fruit or anything else... Didn't finish, just wasn't worth the headache... (3651 views) | | | Tasted by anandman on 4/25/2013 & rated 90 points: The cork fell apart as I opened the bottle but with a little filtering into my decanter, I was able to recover the wine. It was definitely past it's peak but decanting it about an hour did help anyway. Overall, enjoyable, but I should have had this wine a year or two ago. (3692 views) | | | Tasted by ba1070 on 2/12/2013 & rated 88 points: From a 10 year vertical (1987-1996). All 10 are wrapped in paper in a wooden box. This is the first one I opened. The capsule was deteriorated to almost a powder and the cork was in very bad shape. I never smelled anything so bad (the cork). Surprisingly the neck fill was good and the wine was pretty good too. We drank this bottle and also the 1987 which also was pretty good. Definitely over the top by a few years but enjoyable still. (3181 views) | | | Tasted by wconnolly on 6/4/2012 & rated 90 points: This was a classic, old style, California cab. Given the age, it is not surprising that the nose was predominantly earth with notes of moss and minerals. What is surprising is the amount of fruit also evident on the nose and on the palate. Color was a medium garnet with no evidence of bricking. I let this breathe for about an hour. Fruit faded after another 2 hours but overall a really nice bottle of wine. (3459 views) | | | Tasted by toneb on 4/8/2012 & rated 87 points: A little flabby tasting the first 10 minutes. Then opened up to great red fruit. Getting fruitier and fruitier over 2 hours. Massive tannins that got stronger over time. Aroma was that of an older wine with red fruit aromas no black fruit at all. Fell off about 3.5 hours in. We decanted this wine (1345 views) | | | Tasted by Loren Sonkin on 10/14/2009 flawed bottle: I thought this wine to be ever so mildly corked. While that was in dispute, there is no denying that this was also the WOTN. Everyone had it in their top 3. It also had a touch of brett. So how does such a flawed wine become WOTN? It had superb texture, and complexity. While I got little fruit on the nose, the palate was excellent. I went back and forth with how to rate this, or should I? Eventually, I had it as my #3 wine, it was still simply that good. I did have trouble with the nose, and it got worse to me as the night went on. I think I am very sensitive and most of the group either disagreed or just did not pick it up. In any event a fantastic wine. (2207 views) |
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(GREAT source of Addt'l Info)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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