Mathew Fritz Cabernet Sauvignon

Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California
93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot

Deep ruby color. This classic Alexander Valley Cabernet is medium bodied and has a very intense aroma of deep red and black fruits. It consists of the following flavors: cherry, cassis, raspberry, strawberry, sweet oak, spice olive and black tea. It  finishes with soft  velvety tannins and medium acidity.

Indomita Reserve, Cabernet, Sauvignon, Chile

100% Cabernet

Well defined currants, blackberry, blueberry and cassis make for abundant fruit on the attack. Sturdy, complex tannins balance the acidity throughout. Notes of smoke, mocha, cedar and lots of rich oak round off the long, earthy, heady finish.

Substance, Cabernet Sauvignon, Washington State

100% Cabernet Sauvignon

 

Big front palate. Explosive fruit with a lot of structure. If this wine had abs they’d be a mirror image of The Situation. Next comes a nice mid-palate with lengthy, focused, pointed, bold tannins. Not tannins that show off, just ones that can’t be missed, like Thursday nights on MTV. The end brings a long finish…you know what we mean…you’re gonna need more than 15 minutes for this one. STEAK!

Clos du Bois "Briarcrest Vineyard," Alexander Valley, Sonoma, North Coast, California

Cabernet Sauvignon

Has a dark ruby/purple color, formidable tannin with a tight finish, and plenty of black currants, leather, and spicy oak.

Alta Cima Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon

Good structure with all dark fruits and firm tannins. Full bodied, long finish. For Black-Coffee drinkers! Loves Grilled meats.

Eponymous, Napa Valley, CA 2004

100% Cabernet Sauvignon

Pleases with aromas hinting of cassis, spicy oak notes, and raspberries. It has excellent body and structure, with the fruit flavors coming through, especially at this young stage of the wines development. There area also added nuances of chocolate in the crazy long finish!

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Noble Tree, Cabernet Sauvignon, California

This Cabernet evokes flavors of dark berry and plum.  Super soft but structured tannins balance this bold yet refreshing wine.  A great example of juicy, ready to drink Cabernet Sauvignon with the backbone to handle bold flavored foods.
144 cases made.

La Madrid Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Opaque purple; smoke, Asian spices, scorched earth, cassis; complex, lengthy, way over-delivers.
100% Lamadrid vineyard. Malolactic fermentation in the oak, and aged 14 months in 60% first use and 40% second use French oak barrels.

Helana Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon, California

 

Straight up California GOODNESS! Nice structure and good fruit leads to an easy-pleasy finish!

Rafael Cabernet Sauvignon 1999

Jammy strawberry and cassis with a hint of earthiness. Background spicy notes of coffee and black licorice. Very smooth on the palate with full blackberry, cedar, black licorice and black olive. Medium body and tannin with a smooth, lasting finish.
750ml btl.- $56.99

Starmount Rose [by Merryvale] Napa Valley, California

100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Made in a saignée style using free-run juice bled off and fermented dry! No malolactic fermentation! No barrel contact! 14.3% by volume 
Red grapefruit, blood orange, with vibrant acidity and flavors of wild strawberry and raspberry. Versatile wine; whether all by itself or with anything you like, including good company!

From their website:

Merryvale
The Napa Green Winery certification is based on a set of sustainable and green business practices for wineries certified by The Napa County Department of Environmental Management and The Association of Bay Area Governments. Certified wineries have demonstrated a commitment to water and energy conservation, waste reduction, and pollution prevention. ▼ Napa Green Farm Certification of Merryvale’s Estate Vineyards—a program that enhances Napa Valley’s watershed and restores natural habitat with sustainable farming practices, including: cover cropping for erosion control, reduction of synthetic chemicals in favor of natural techniques for fertilization and pest control. ▼ Starmont Winery—our state of the art, green  facility is equipped with low energy lighting and motors to stay cool without wasting energy. We recycle 100% of our winery process water as landscape irrigation. In May of  2008, for the first time, the solar panel array at Starmont generated a surplus of energy beyond our needs, which we sent back to the city of Napa. The energy efficiency efforts at Starmont spare the air of over 472 tons of harmful greenhouse gases annually!


Saignée – a method of rosé production that involves bleeding off the juice after limited contact with the skins. Pronounced ’sonyay’. In shory saignée is one of the methods of making rosé wines, along with blending white and red wine (this is the method used to for rosé Champagne), along with a simply macerating (allowing contact with skins to leech out color and flavor) the wine with the skins for a short period of time. The difference between simply macerating the wine and removing the must and saigneé is that the wine left after the bleed-off is oftentimes still being made into a more concentrated red wine, and the rosé is a byproduct.