Flora Springs Hillside Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Rutherford)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Cabernet Sauvignon

País

United States

Região

Rutherford · Napa

Denominação

Rutherford

Álcool

14.2%

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 2019

• 2018

• 2017

• 2016

• 2015

• 201494 pts

  Juicy black cherry, tar and leather notes provide flavor and heft in this supple wine with sizable yet well-behaved tannins. Its firm structure balances the full body, as clove and just-roasted coffee highlights linger on the finish.

• 201390 pts

  Soft and supple yet powerful on the palate, this is generously seasoned with smoky oak and meat aromas. Tobacco and clove flavors keep it savory and are complemented by black currant fruit.

• 201293 pts

  An estate wine from an elevated elevation, this opens in fragrant red cherry and vanilla, with a subtle trace of brambly blackberry. Soft, it features a supple mouthfeel, medium weight and a backbone of structure, earthy and enticing. Easily enjoyable now, it should take on adde…

• 201191 pts

  From a tiny hillside block in Rutherford, this 100% Cab is soft in clove, black currant and olive, juicy yet restrained. It spent almost two years in 90% new French oak, but the presence of oak is subtle and the tannins well-managed, making the wine both enjoyable now and worth…

• 201096 pts

  Don't even think of opening this Cab before 2018. It's very tannic and closed, and locked down in astringency still. But it's so balanced, so rich with blackberries, chocolate and cassis, and yet so dry and minerally, that it's the modern poster child for an ageable Napa Valley…