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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.7 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 37 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Marcus Tiro on 5/9/2024 & rated 91 points: Gorgeous blackberries, plums, cherries on the nose. Continues on the palate with integrated barrel flavors and polished tannins. Medium body, medium acid, balanced, and mid- complexity. A true pleasure. Such an easy wine to enjoy. (196 views) | | | Tasted by NostraBacchus on 4/21/2024 & rated 92 points: Another very good bottle of this. Old-schoolish Napa with good freshness. (665 views) | | | Tasted by gvfinck on 3/11/2024 & rated 89 points: Quite frankly not a favorite. Oaky but a bit thin. Would have liked more body and taste of berries. There is better out there for that price. (1088 views) | | | Tasted by RKcellar on 2/25/2024 & rated 91 points: showing lots of oak at first, comes together after about 1.5 - 2 hours of air. red fruit profile, still present tannins. i like it but the retail has gone away up since purchase (1101 views) | | | Tasted by LordVoldemort on 1/10/2024 & rated 88 points: Fruity (both red and black, a lot of plum) and quite some greenness. The oak is on the lighter side for a napa cab. Bold on the palate, intense punch of fruit with some tobacco and spices. High alcohol and acidity, chalky tannins. Overall not bad but not too interesting, lacking structure and complexity. (1555 views) | | | Tasted by gaplayer on 12/25/2023 & rated 90 points: Decanted 30-45 minutes. Dark fruit, leather. Medium bodied. Paired well with a prime rib dinner and well after on its on. (1358 views) | | | Tasted by cdimaro on 11/19/2023 & rated 92 points: Dark fruit, leather, eucalyptus and some vegetable notes yielding a rather masculine, concentrated and animal character overall. Good concentration on the palate supported by a solid acid structure, although lacking on the mid palate. (1769 views) | | | Tasted by NostraBacchus on 11/17/2023 & rated 92 points: This.is really singing. Still young with notes of oak (vanilla, sweet spices) but also plenty of fruit, dark notes like cassis, dark cherries, some earthy notes, leather and some eucalyptus and dried herbs. Medium-full bodied, with medium+ tannin and some medium-high acidity. Nice length. Just overall a very nice Napa Cab with a reasonable QPR. Beautiful. (1782 views) | | | Tasted by Eute on 11/4/2023 & rated 92 points: Needes a an hour to open up. Fruity, big tannins, can almost drink now and for years. (1448 views) | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 9/13/2023 & rated 93 points: Lots fo dark fruit, cassis, eucalyptus. Good tannic bite, precise. This one could also do well as a pirate in a Bordeaux flight. 92-94 (2228 views) | | | Tasted by Joelene on 8/6/2023 & rated 91 points: Very young but with loads of potential (1484 views) | | | Tasted by Sagan99 on 7/30/2023 & rated 89 points: Heitz is an absolute, long term favorite. Never had a bad bottle in 40 years.
The problem I've got with this note, is that recently, I had a 2003 Diamond Creek, and a 2012 Heitz Martha's. Both made in the same way, but different.
(So, this wine truly hasn't got a freaking chance, because my expectation bias is on high alert!!)
Also, with scores in the 90s on this wine seen from my CT brethren, it makes me question, more than usual, my original and initial thoughts.
***And 48 hours later***
.... It's finally opened up and it's doing everything a Heitz cab does!
Which means...
1- Decant this 4 hours+ before drinking.
2- better yet, leave this thing in the bottle for 5-10 years! There's absolutely no reason to open this anytime soon. Maybe some of those other Napa Bluechippers, but definitely not this name!
Anyway....
Pronounced Medium-Deep Ruby
The usual black fruit
Black currant, Spices, sweet cherry, cedar, cigar box
Dry
Alcohol high
Acid high
Tannins high, structured, shows after only 48 hours
(it doesn't show it's structure and potential upon opening thru even 2nd day)
Full - medium body
Viscosity high, fully enveloping
Long finish 60+;seconds
Very Good wine, but wouldn't have said that on day 1!!
This wine is very good, though, it's apparent that the alcohol effect is less than ideal, or at least it's changed from the Heitz hay-daze!
Alas, I'll keep buying this name, if not this wine.
Yes, Martha's Vineyard is a stretch, but, I'm too old and crotchety to drink this, when I know that!
(I've enough to drink in the morning and scribe since final notes. Could easily give it 85 as a 90 at this juncture.
Easily 90. Good thing I had enough for 3 days. Would have been a sin to say anything but keep it for a while!)
CS 100%
14.0% abv
PS- Drink The Rainbow! (1258 views) | | | Tasted by MikeDB on 5/28/2023 & rated 92 points: On the elegant side for a Napa cab. Maybe 1-hour of air was all it needed.
More red fruited: raspberry, currant. Well incorporated oak, subtle mocha notes. Lovely herbal/mint too.
Good length, good balance. (1313 views) | | | Tasted by sniderbd@gmail.com on 3/18/2023: Seemed a little acidic (1561 views) | | | Tasted by castle.rob@gmail.com on 2/27/2023 & rated 94 points: Beautiful dark purple with ruby rim
Nose of cherry, raspberries, and plum
Raspberries and spice on the palate
Heavy acidity and heavy tannins
Rich full-bodied wine with a great taste
This is one of my favorite wines. My 82 y/o mother has a fondness for this wine as well (1429 views) | | | Tasted by jcm87 on 1/31/2023 & rated 86 points: $53 at Trader Joe's but not a bargain. This is restaurant plonk to sell by the glass and in no way expresses anything about Heitz, Napa, or Cabernet Sauvignon. I've had equally innocuous wines from Chile, Lodi, and geogrphically obscire places and this fits right in. A shame the Heitz name is on it, and 86 is generous. (1627 views) | | | Tasted by Cooperd166 on 12/9/2022 & rated 88 points: Nice earthy 100% Cab. Better paired with meat than drinking by itself (2052 views) | | | Tasted by THECORKDORK on 11/28/2022 & rated 91 points: Wayy too young, but classically styled delicious Napa Cab. (1831 views) | | | Tasted by davidandrose on 10/26/2022 & rated 89 points: Restaurant pop and pour. Two hours after pulling the cork this shows red fruit, ferns and flavored tobacco on the nose. Watery red fruit on the palate shows basic structure but with little depth.
As AG notes, not sure to what extent this is impacted by the vintage. You can do much worse for the $$. (1889 views) | | | Tasted by Dougtulsa on 10/15/2022 & rated 92 points: solid. classic tasting california cab. (1614 views) | | | Tasted by marcellonegro on 10/3/2022 & rated 92 points: Med purple colour
Pronounced nose of red and black fruit, blackberry, ripe dark cherry, oak
Med+ acidity, med+ tannins and med+ body
Flavours of blackberry, cassis, black cherry, oak, dry tobacco
Great balance and smoothness, good length, great intensity and good complexity (1479 views) | | | Tasted by GrapeCrusader on 7/23/2022 & rated 93 points: Another enjoyable Napa Valley bottling from Heitz. Sometimes I think I enjoy the straight NV more than the single vineyards from Heitz, especially at the price point. I like the interplay of red and black fruits like cherries, blackberries with hints of fresh bay leaf and rosemary woven in as well. Very refined tannins and an even silky like mouthfeel, which is very unexpected for a cab. A little tobacco on the palate as well. (1333 views) | | | Tasted by AGELVIS on 6/6/2022 & rated 89 points: Two hour decant. Very very deep magenta color. Grapefruit rind, cinnamon, and raspberry on the nose. Smooth, tongue drying, modestly tart palate. Soft, round tannins on the longish finish.
This is clearly a victim of the vintage. We’ll made for the price point, but too tart and red fruited. (2015 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Heitz Cellar 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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