Red

Airfield Estates Cabernet Sauvignon (Yakima Valley)

Yakima Valley · Columbia Valley · United States

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carnes vermelhas · cordeiro · queijos curados · churrasco

201490 pts

The aromas suggest notes of herb, vanilla, wood spice, plum and dark fruit. The palate is restrained in style, full of dark-fruit and barrel flavors and lightly grainy tannins.
201289 pts

This is 100% varietal with all of the fruit coming from 1989 plantings. Bittersweet chocolate, green herb and barrel aromas are followed by cherry flavors with a chalky feel.
201085 pts

A tough vintage turns out a tough wine—chewy, tart, slender and herbal. Some pretty blackberry fruit is tucked tightly into the core, but it is overtaken by the acidity and drying tannins.
200989 pts

This young winery has made huge strides with its red wines, as this 100% Cabernet Sauvignon demonstrates. Young, tight, tart, and expressive, it takes the cranberry and cassis components from cool-vintage, cool-climate grapes, and turns them into a complete and complex wine. Hig…
200685 pts

Though labeled reserve, this is barely distinguishable from the winery's regular Cabernet. More toast, and a little chocolate is showing, but the fruit flavors—pale blackberry and black currant—are quickly covered up by the aggressive tannins.