Rodney Strong Brothers Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon (Alexander Valley)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Cabernet Sauvignon

País

United States

Região

Alexander Valley · Sonoma

Denominação

Alexander Valley

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201391 pts

  This 100% varietal wine hails from a site east of Cloverdale, in a warm pocket reaching up to 1,030-feet in elevation. It offers a full-bodied concentration of black cherry, raspberry and clove flavor, with a smooth texture and mild, toasty oak. Chocolate mocha marks the finish.

• 201190 pts

  Dense and concentrated, this 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from a far northern section of the Alexander Valley is huge and juicy. It offers black cherry and cassis around cigar box and tobacco, with a lengthy, smoky finish. Still young, it needs time for the tannins to settle.

• 201090 pts

  This wine is 100% Cabernet, sourced from one of the winery's vineyards in a warm part of Alexander Valley. It's quite ripe, with flavors of cherry pie, red plum, currants, tobacco, cola and new French oak. The tannins are lush and soft, but the wine will develop for many years.…

• 200793 pts

  This nearly 100% Cabernet is strongly flavored, bone dry, very tannic and nowhere near ready. It has a tough, astringent mouthfeel, and the concentrated richness of grapes grown on low-yielding hillsides. Intense flavors of blackberries, black cherries, cassis, cola and herbs ma…

• 200688 pts

  This is a 100% Cabernet, grown further north than the winery's amazing Rockaway bottling, which is to say in a hotter area. Comparisons are inevitable. Although it's rich and even dramatic, it's not as impressive a wine, showing a raisiny edge to the black currants and chocolate…