2020 Michael Shaps Cabernet Franc

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  4/10/2023 - ocassiuso Likes this wine:

  Bottle a hefty 1398g. Translucent medium ruby color. Aromas of elevated intensity, bright red fruit, especially raspberry, a little red bell pepper, with earthy, spicy and herbal notes. Dry, with moderate to elevated juicy acidity, modest grippy tannins, medium-bodied, 13% abv. Very appealing, and drinking very nicely now.

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  3/13/2023 - wilypod Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This may be the way forward with varietal Cabernet Franc, at least here in Virginia. A food friendly and eminently quaffable red that is also refined.
  
  Brilliant, translucent ruby in an energetic, highly aromatic, and fruit forward approach. Kinship leans to Loire, not Bordeaux. The high-toned fruit speaks in cranberry and raspberry with a vernal floral note -- and without the green vegetal element that used to be the norm here in Virginia and elsewhere for Cab Franc. Enough tannin for a pleasant mouthfeel but without an emphasis on cellaring.

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