Frog's Leap Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)

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Tipo

Red

Uva

Cabernet Sauvignon

País

United States

Região

Napa Valley · Napa

Denominação

Napa Valley

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201190 pts

  The winery's just-released 2011 Cab is vigorous and good. Its tannins are a little rugged, with tongue-sticky astringency. Underneath that comes a burst of cherries, currants, plums and smoky oak. The wine doesn't feel like a long-term ager, but it does provide plenty of pleasur…

• 201090 pts

  Here's a rich, complex Napa Cabernet for drinking now while you're waiting for your more ageable wines to mature. It boasts a decadent structure housing ripe flavors of blackberries, black currants and smoky, toasty oak.

• 200987 pts

  Shows lots of rich blackberry and cherry sour candy flavors, with a smoky coating of oak, and smooth, easy-to-drink tannins that make this Cabernet ready to open now.

• 200792 pts

  Good Cabernet, dry and complex, showing classic Napa character. The tannin structure is near perfect, while the flavors are ripe and juicy in blackberries, cherries, currants and cedar. Polished now and through 2013.

• 200688 pts

  Although it's not on a par with Frog's Leap recent Cabernets, this '06 still is a nice glass of wine. It's dry and pretty tannic, with easy flavors of black currants and cedar. Might develop some bottle complexities over the next few years.

• 200584 pts

  A bit rough and angular, with a jagged tannic structure that suggests not all the grapes were completely ripe. With blackberry, cherry and mint flavors, the wine is at its best now.

• 199791 pts

  A fine wine at the bottom of the ultrapremium price category. There's some bramble and forest aromas in advance of jammy cherry and blackberry fruit. Fades away smoothly and with good length. Not the most complex Cabernet, but it delivers the goods at all checkpoints.