cabernet

Quick Sip on a Wednesday with the 2006 Elizabeth Spencer Cabernet Sauvignon

2006 Elizabeth Spencer Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Wine Information – Appellation: Napa Valley Sub-Appellations: St. Helena, Howell Mountain, Yountville, Oakville, Rutherford, and Mt. Veeder Grapes: 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc Cooperage: 20 months in 100% French Oak Price: $32 My Tasting Notes – Nose: boysenberry, black currant jam, roasted meat, brown sugar [...]

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Drinking extremely well – 1999 B.R. Cohn Olive Hill Estate Cabernet Sauvignon

Once again my job as store manager of a wine shop has provided me the opportunity to taste some fabulous wine. About a week ago, we opened up the 1999 B.R. Cohn Olive Hill Estate Cabernet Sauvignon ($96) to see how it was drinking. Well, I am here to say that it is drinking extremely [...]

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Tuesday Quick Sip – Krupp Brothers 2003 Veraison Cabernet Sauvignon

2003 Krupp Brothers Veraison Cabernet Sauvignon Wine Info – Appellation: Napa, Oakville Vineyard: Stage Coach, Southside of Pritchard Hill Grapes: 76% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, 3% Malbec, 1% Cabernet Franc Cooperage: 18 months in Taransaud French Oak barrels Price: ~$65 My Tasting Notes – Nose: chocolate, blackberry, cassis, leather Taste: huge juicy [...]

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A good wine, but a bit of a let down.

The 2004 Longview Block 11 Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the high end wines from Longview winery. For the most part, Longview wines stay under the $20 mark and offer some good value from Australia. The Block 11 Cabernet from 2004 however was $45 and when I tasted it a year and half ago, was [...]

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Tuesday Quick Sip: 2005 Cartlidge & Browne Cabernet Sauvignon – Snow Lake Vineyard, Red Hills Lake County

Wine Info Appellation – Red Hills, Lake County Vineyard – Snow Lake Grape – 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, clone 337 and 15 Aging – 60% American, 40% French for 17 months Price – $23 My Tasting Notes Color – deep garnet Nose – black tea, boysenberry, cherry, toast, caramel Taste – cedar, cassis, oak, blackberry, cherry, [...]

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A Slight Disappointment

Christmas day was spent at my parent’s house, and was a fun day of present opening and over eating. Even though my parents bought plenty of wine, and told me not to bring any, you know I couldn’t show up empty handed. So we took over some Pedroncelli Chardonnay and a bottle of the 2001 [...]

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Wine Tasting – 2004 Seventy Five, Amber Knolls Vineyard, Cabernet Sauvignon

I picked this up from the Wine Cellar about a month or two ago, just wanting to pick up a real good “everyday” Cab for the wine stock at home. I had heard great things about the wine, and these were confirmed by my favorite Wine Cellar employee Hunter who had just tasted the wine recently. [...]

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