Straits Wines - Cabernet Sauvignon Tasting

Brought along a Leoville Poyferre 2011 so set a benchmark for the Cabs

• 2016 Fratelli Cabernet Sauvignon Motewadi, Akluj 89 Points

  India, Maharashtra, Baramati

  Acidic, full bodied, and intense, with quite some red fruits and grass, as well as cigar smokes, and a interesting red fruited finish

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• 2014 Esser Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon 90 Points

  USA, California

  Nose of figs and raisins, jammy, and has an intense blast of cherries and cassis, and also bready and biscuity

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• 2014 Finca Decero Cabernet Sauvignon Remolinos Vineyard 89 Points

  Argentina, Mendoza, Lujan de Cuyo, Agrelo

  Black cherry, olives, and bit of peppers and cloves on the nose, and started with lots of berries and rose, which later developed into peppers, capsicum and leaves

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• 2010 Uggiano Cabernet Sauvignon Falconeri Toscana IGT 93 Points

  Italy, Tuscany, Toscana IGT

  Leaves, tomatoes, capisicum, and smoky nose. Blackberry, grass, cloves, graphite and leather. Nice!

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• 2016 Nashwauk Cabernet Sauvignon 93 Points

  Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

  Dark, powerful, with lots of ripe berries, graphite, leaves, and cigar smokes. Finished very long of smokes and braised meat. Good!

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• 2013 Warramate Black Label Cabernets 92 Points

  Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley

  Large, and quite rounded, and has a good balance of red berries and cassis, and some cloves and grass. A bit Burgundian styled. Interesting

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• 2012 Uggiano Brunello di Montalcino 89 Points

  Italy, Tuscany, Montalcino, Brunello di Montalcino

  Can tell that it’s much driven by the oak, with spices and leather dominating over the fruits, as quite savoury and meaty. Would have preferred better balance

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• 2011 Château Léoville Poyferré 95 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, St. Julien

  Very big berried nose, and having a big intensity on the palate with plums, blackberry, grass, liquorice, and graphite. Really smooth and pleasant. Great!

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• 2015 BK Wines Syrah Syrah Nouveau Lobethal 91 Points

  Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

  Very interesting nose of plums, kumkuat, preserved plums, soy, sweet vinegar, and aged wood. Intense on palate, with soy, red cherries, hawthorne. A wine that seems not bounded by any kinds of rules, but pretty pleasant

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• 2014 Domaine Belle Hermitage 93 Points

  France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Hermitage

  Intense berries, plums, and rose, with some grass, and a bit of marl earth and barnyard. Really good!

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• 2014 Pasqua Amarone della Valpolicella 92 Points

  Italy, Veneto, Valpolicella, Amarone della Valpolicella

  Huge burst of red cherries and plums on the nose and palate, to the point that it even seems sweet (though yes it’s still dry). Also has grass, stones, and nutmeg spices in the undertones. Nice

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A great night of tasting, fun and laughter :)