2015 Smith-Madrone Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
- USA
- California
- Napa Valley
- Spring Mountain District
Community Tasting Note
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goodvitis.com Likes this wine: 94 points
January 10, 2020 - Decanted this for an hour and as it revealed itself, it became the best vintage of this wine that I’ve had. The nose is a mountain slope of dark sweet cherry and strawberry, wet barky soil, Herbs de Provence, licorice, molasses, black olive and smoke. It’s medium plus in weight with elegant and refined tannin and acute acid that combine to form a traditional Old Wolrd style structure. The flavors are layered and extended aging will reveal them all. Right now they include slaty cherry, strawberry, plum and rhubarb fruit that cohabitate a nicely with olive tapenade, black pepper, rose water and graphite. I’d sit on these for at least another five years and then enjoy through 2030.
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