Wines
6 Items Found
- Ladera Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2009 Product #26775 (In Stock)
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Ladera is best known as a Howell Mountain Cab specialists, but we prefer the Napa Valley designate which includes a dash of Petit Verdot and Syrah. As the Advocate suggests, the 2009 is for drinking now - but how is that bad?!
"Ladera’s 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon is a relatively simple, straightforward offering in this vintage. Plums, sweet spices, crushed flowers and menthol are woven together nicely. The wine’s mid-weight structure suggests it is best enjoyed upon release and for a handful of years thereafter. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2019."Wine Advocate 89 points
- Honig Cabernet Sauvignon Napa 2011 Product #27271 (In Stock)
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Michael Honig, his family, and long-time winemaker Kristin Belair turn out some of the best, most consistent, Napa Valley Cabernet year after year. The care taken in sustainable farming and hands-on winemaking shows in this rich, spicy, Cabernet with plenty of dark berry, spice and cedar notes. Accents of anise, licorice and dark chocolate add even more complexity. A fine wine and fine value. - Antica Cabernet Sauvignon Napa 2009 Product #25717 (In Stock)
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This was outstanding when we first tried it about a year ago, but now it’s wide open and flowing and just stupid, stupid, good. The aromas and flavors are all classic Napa Cab: blackcurrant, plum, baking spice, cocoa powder, smoke and more all pour from the glass. And, the aromas and flavors are pretty compelling: ripe, powerful, positive. But it’s the graceful, sophisticated, texture that I find so impressive here, with waves of ripe flavors flowing across your palate like silk and satin. More than big and rich enough for large hunks of grilled meat, but well worth sipping solo, too.
“The Cabernet Sauvignon is aged in 55-65% new oak. The 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon comes across as a bit more reticent and inward next to the superb 2008, but it, too, is a gorgeous wine. Dark red fruit, licorice, smoke and tar are some of the nuances that flow from this layered, gorgeous Cabernet Sauvignon. The 2009 was bottled just two months ago. It will almost certainly be even better in a few years’ time. A mid-weight, gracious wine, the 2009 should drink well to age 20 or so. In 2009 the blend includes 1.5% Petit Verdot. Anticipated maturity: 2019-2029.”Wine Advocate 92 points
- Weese Family Winery Rockpile Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 Product #27247 (In Stock)
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From the famous Rockpile Vineyard in Sonoma, this is everything you'd expect in a $100 California Cabernet - but about half the price! The Weese brothers grow this blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Cabernet Franc, 4% Petit Verdot in two plots on Rockpile, ferment it warm, and then age it for 24 months in half-new, half-used, oak. Dead young now, but already delivering classic aromas of cassis, cedar, tobacco and cocoa powder. In the mouth, ripe and big, but with a very attractive elegant restraint, pumping out blackcurrant, black cherry, tobacco and cassis flavors through the midpalate and then finishing with firm, chewy, tannins and a hint of fresh leather. Just 400 cases produced of this beauty that you can enjoy tonight with grilled steak or lamb or let mellow in cellar for 10+ years. Outstanding value for the quality.
- Paul Hobbs Crossbarn Cabernet Sauvignon Napa 2010 Product #26552 (In Stock)
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Another fine vintage for Paul Hobb's "entry-level" Napa Cab. As WA said about the nearly identical 2008: "A terrific bargain in Napa Cabernet...a brilliant perfume of smoked herbs, sweet creme de cassis and blackberry fruit, incense and hints of charcoal and herbs. Savory, broad and expansive on the palate, this full-bodied, supple-textured effort is a classic Napa Valley Cabernet that is silky enough to be drunk early in life and over the next 10-15 years."
- White Rock Vineyards Cabernet Napa Laureate 2007 Product #26738 (In Stock)
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Old-fashioned Napa Cabernet from very up-to-date, but respectful of history, wine growers working in Napa's Soda Canyon. The vines grow on terraces up the side of the Canyon and get minimal water and no chemical fertilizers or herbicides. The natural vineyard work continues in the winery (6000 sq ft of caves quarried to build the winery house) where the wines rest until ready to release.
The Laureate Cabernet comes from the highest elevation Cabernet vines and opens with youthful aromas of red currant, tobacco leaf, fresh herb, eucalyptus and coffee. In the mouth it's rich and bright with plenty of red fruit and spice. The finish is long, persistent and firm with ripe fruit flavors lingering nicely. Tasty now and better over the next decade plus.
