Category: Cabernet Sauvignon

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Robert Hall Cabernet Sauvignon

Robert Hall Regenerative Organic Certified Cabernet Sauvignon. <a href="#taste">Click here for tasting notes.</a>
Robert Hall Regenerative Organic Certified Cabernet Sauvignon. Click here for tasting notes.

The 2024 Robert Hall Regenerative Organic Cabernet Sauvignon is a particularly interesting Paso Robles release because of both its winemaking and the agricultural experiment behind it. Beginning in 2021, the winery compared 43 acres converted to regenerative organic farming with five acres maintained under conventional sustainable management. The vines were selected to match grape variety, clone, and soil conditions as closely as possible. The reported results included: a 13% improvement in soil water retention; 192% more CO₂ absorbed than the control block; greater microbial activity; and improvements in wine complexity, freshness, and varietal expression.

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Stag’s Leap Chase Creek Cabernet Sauvignon

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Chase Creek Cabernet Sauvignon. <a href="#taste">Click here for tasting notes.</a>
Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Chase Creek Cabernet Sauvignon. Click here for tasting notes.

The 2019 Stag’s Leap Chase Creek Cabernet Sauvignon is an interesting and somewhat unusual offering from one of Napa Valley’s most historically significant wineries. Rather than emphasizing the sheer concentration and power associated with many premium California Cabernets, Chase Creek is intended to express the more delicate, aromatic, and elegant characteristics of the Stags Leap District.
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Stag’s Leap Cellarius

Stag's Leap Cellarius Series
Stag’s Leap Cellarius Series. Click here for tasting notes.

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cellarius Series 2021

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is one of the genuinely consequential wineries in American wine history. It is not simply a famous Napa Cabernet producer: its 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon was the wine that finished first in the red-wine portion of the 1976 Judgment of Paris, an event that fundamentally changed international perceptions of California wine. The winning bottle is now part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History collection.

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Raymond Coombsville Cabernet Sauvignon

Raymond Coombsville District Cabernet Sauvignon 2019.
Raymond Coombsville District Cabernet Sauvignon 2019. Click here for tasting notes.

Raymond Coombsville District Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

The Raymond name has been associated with Napa valley since the year Prohibition ended.  The Raymond family arrived in Napa Valley in 1933. Roy Raymond married into the Beringer family in 1936. He worked as winemaker for Beringer from 1933 to 1970. The following year, he and his two sons Walter and Roy Jr set out on their own with a 90-acre estate property in Rutherford. They released their first commercial wine under the Raymond Vineyards label in 1974.  The estate now comprises 300 acres in Rutherford, St. Helena, and Jameson Canyon. All are are certified organic and Biodynamic. The winery is also operated on 100% solar power.

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HALL Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

HALL Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021.
HALL Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021. Click here for tasting notes.

HALL Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Kathryn Walt Hall has a most impressive curriculum vitae. To touch on just a few of the high points, she is the proprietor of HALL Wines and WALT Wines [family businesses she has been involved with for over thirty years], was assistant city attorney in Berkeley, California, worked as an attorney and businesswoman in Dallas, Texas, and has served on numerous non-profit and institutional boards, with an emphasis on issues related to social care and mental health. From 1997 to July 2001, Ms. Hall served as the United States Ambassador to Austria. In the midst of this, together with her husband Craig she has raised four children.

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Cornerstone Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

Cornerstone Cellars Oakville Station Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Cornerstone Cellars Oakville Station Cabernet Sauvignon. Click here for tasting notes.

Cornerstone Cellars Oakville Station Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

In Napa Valley, some of the most compelling wines come not from sprawling estates but from small, vineyard-focused producers who carefully source fruit from exceptional sites. One such winery is Cornerstone Cellars, a small Napa Valley label known for crafting limited-production wines from prestigious vineyard locations.

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Hedges Cabernet Sauvignon

Hedges Family Estates C.M.S Cabernet Sauvignon. <a href="#taste">Click here for tasting notes.</a> I have posts on all of these wines. Just search for Hedges. v
Hedges C.M.S Cabernet Sauvignon. Click here for tasting notes. I have posts on all of these wines. Just search for Hedges.

Hedges Family Estates C.M.S Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

A winemaker, Nicole Walsh of Ser Winery, recently recommended a wine to me. And I thought, “If a winemaker recommends someone else’s product, it must be worth seeking out.” That wine? Hedges Family Estate Red Mountain Syrah.

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Lachini La Bestia Cabernet Sauvignon

Lachini La Bestia Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
Lachini La Bestia Cabernet Sauvignon 2017. Click here for tasting notes. I have reviews of all of these wines. Just search for Lachini.

Lachini La Bestia Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

Proprietor Ron Lachini’s family hails from the Tuscan town of Lucca.  At some point, his grandfather immigrated to the United States, settling in the large Italian community of San Francisco’s North Beach.  He started making wine with his father and grandfather in their garages as a child.

 

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Kenwood Cabernet Sauvignon

Kenwood Vineyards Jack London Wild Ferment*** Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
Kenwood Vineyards Jack London Wild Ferment Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 Click here for tasting notes. I have posts for all of these wines. Just search for Kenwood.

Kenwood Jack London Wild Ferment Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Author Jack London (1876 – 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of unabashedly commercial fiction in both novels and  magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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Kenwood Cabernet Sauvignon

Kenwood Vineyards Jack London Dry Farmed Cabernet Sauvignon 2018. <a href="#taste">Click here for tasting notes.</a>
Kenwood Vineyards Jack London Dry Farmed Cabernet Sauvignon. Click here for tasting notes.

Kenwood Jack London Dry Farmed Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Author Jack London (1876 – 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of unabashedly commercial fiction in both novels and  magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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Kenwood Cabernet Sauvignon

Kenwood Vineyards Jack London Cabernet Sauvignon 2016. <a href="#taste">Click here for tasting notes.</a>
Kenwood Vineyards Jack London Cabernet Sauvignon 2016. Click here for tasting notes.

Kenwood Jack London Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Author Jack London (1876 – 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of unabashedly commercial fiction in both novels and  magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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Adega Northwest Cabernet Sauvignon

Adega Northwest Winery
Adega Northwest Weinbau Vineyard Block 10 Cabernet Sauvignon. Click here for tasting notes. I have posts for all of these wines. Just search for Adega.

Adega Northwest Weinbau Vineyard Block 10 Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

When most of us think of a winery, what usually comes to mind is the romantic stereotype of a rustic but exquisite barn situated halfway up a mountain in the western U. S. overlooking a bucolic valley below; a fabulous hundred-years old chateau surrounded by ancient vines somewhere in France; or perhaps even a charming azienda agricola in Italy with a view of Roman ruins. But that’s not the only way to do it.  Adega Northwest of Portland, Oregon, is very much an urban winery.  There are vineyards, of course, you just won’t see them if you pay the winery a visit (by appointment only).  And because they are not tied to an estate, Adega Northwest can and does draw on sources throughout the region. Continue reading “Adega Northwest Cabernet Sauvignon”