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 [...]

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 fruit, lots of chocolate, blackberry, toasty oak, brown spice and [...]

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 [...]

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, vanilla
Mouthfeel – slightly spicy with full roundness leading to [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]