Von Strasser Estate Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain District)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Cabernet Sauvignon

País

United States

Região

Diamond Mountain District · Napa

Denominação

Diamond Mountain District

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201390 pts

  Raspberry and cranberry flavors and a twist of cinnamon stick accent the firm tannins of this estate wine, marked by classic red currant, cedar and dried herb notes. Medium-bodied and modest in oak, it shows a clarity of crisp acidity.

• 201294 pts

  From a three-acre vineyard, this wine accented in 2% Petit Verdot offers a sense of gravel underneath the dark, syrupy plum and leathery tannin structure. Midway through, it exhibits cherry, raspberry and vanilla, showing a juicy underbelly that should develop further over time.…

• 201196 pts

  To call this Cabernet huge is an understatement. The tannins are hard and dramatic. As for the fruit, you can hardly find strong enough descriptors. It shows blackberry jam and black currants, cassis liqueur and minerals raised to fabulous mountain concentration. Violets and oak…

• 201095 pts

  While the winery's regular 2010 Diamond Mountain Cab is a barrel selection, this Estate Vineyard selection consists of “only the darkest, most extracted lots,” from the winery's various vineyards, according to the winemaker. That's exactly what you get, an inky wine, it's huge o…

• 200998 pts

  So enormously delicious, it will be hard to keep from drinking this gorgeous Cabernet right away, and that's just fine. It's composed of the most intensly concentrated flavors of blueberries and blackberries—dense, pure and slightly heady with a liqueur-like alcohol. The tannins…

• 200894 pts

  A big, hard, dry Cabernet whose mountain tannins need quite some time to resolve. Right now they're tough as nails, although the blackberry fruit is so brilliant and intense, it punches right through. Give this dramatic wine at least six years, and it could well develop beyond t…

• 200793 pts

  Strong now in fruity flavor and oak, with potent mountain tannins, this tiny-production Cab wants some time to knit together. It's rich and extracted in blackberry tart with the sweet smoky crust, black currant jam, blueberry, dark chocolate, anise and cedar flavors that finish…

• 200693 pts

  Von Strasser continues to produce stunning Cabernets that are not only delicious when released, but ageable. This estate bottling is superbly rich in cassis and cedar, and while the tannins are thick, they're sweet and intricate. Great now and should develop through 2012, at lea…

• 200592 pts

  Von Strasser has a good track record with this wine, and the '05 is right up there with the best, but be forewarned. It's very tannic. But then, it is from Diamond Mountain. Give it a good 4 years, at least, to throw some sediment and let the rich blackberry and black currant fl…