Vine Cliff Cabernet Sauvignon (Oakville)

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Tipo

Red

Uva

Cabernet Sauvignon

País

United States

Região

Oakville · Napa

Denominação

Oakville

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201391 pts

  Tightly structured in a ripe, bold bundle of cherry and berry flavors, this is an intensely tannic and youthful wine, clearly indicative of the vintage. Sage, dried herb, marshmallow and toasted oak aromas round it out, giving it flavor beyond its innate concentration.

• 201292 pts

  Concentrated in black currant, cedar and olive, this has subdued tannins that are chalky and smooth. The aroma takes on pretty lavender and violet connotations that allure. Dried herb and black pepper mingle on the finish. This wine is lovely now, but should cellar nicely throug…

• 200994 pts

  This wine is always impressive, but its degree of greatness is vintage driven, suggesting its extreme sensitivity to the Oakville terroir. The 2009 is ageable and concentrated, better than the 2008 but falling short of the 2007, which approached perfection. Dry and tannic, it's…

• 200892 pts

  A gorgeous Cabernet, rich and flamboyant, the kind of wine that knocks you out at first sip. It's soft but complex in tannins, and dry, with luxurious blackberry, cassis and chocolate flavors brightened by fine acidity. Hard to say where it's going, but so delicious, it's a wine…

• 200798 pts

  Pretty much as good as Napa Cabernet gets. Shows the blackberries, black currants, blueberries and spicy plums of Oakville and scads of spices, and the tannin-acid structure is, in a word, superb. The oak elaboration is just about perfect, adding a tasteful layer of smoky, butte…