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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by EMichels on 7/8/2013 & rated 92 points: A bit of raison on the nose; Good edge; A bit of stinky cheese; Quite powerful (3852 views) | | | Tasted by merryberry on 10/27/2012 & rated 91 points: Nice even brick color. Slightly stinky barnyard nose. Medium bodied, soft entry, strong clear red and blue fruit, fully resolved tannins, and a savory medium to long finish. Once you got past the nose, it was divine. (3851 views) | | | Tasted by TimothyB on 8/6/2011: This bottle didn't show well, even time in decanter didn't help. (The 1999 Corison easily topped it, that night.) (4668 views) | | | Tasted by cma82 on 2/8/2010 & rated 90 points: Tasted from 3 separate bottles from Crush. Upon it was very austere, with mostly earth, sage, and underbrush notes. However, it opened over the course of an hour to generous fruit with a nice tannin structure showing. Very balanced and old school-wish I had more. (4676 views) |
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Corison Winery is located just south of the town of St. Helena in the upper Napa Valley. They are on the west side of Highway 29, about a quarter mile north of Zinfandel Lane, at 987 St. Helena Highway, Saint Helena, CA 94574.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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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