Airfield Estates Cabernet Sauvignon (Yakima Valley)

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Tipo

Red

Uva

Cabernet Sauvignon

País

United States

Região

Yakima Valley · Columbia Valley

Denominação

Yakima Valley

Corpo

medium

Acidez

medium

Tanino

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 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.