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Cabernet Sauvignon
The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.
It is adaptable to a wide range of soils, although it performs particularly well on well-drained, low-fertile soils. It has small, dusty, black-blue berries with thick skins that produce deeply coloured, full-bodied wines with notable tannins. Its spiritual home is the Médoc and Graves regions of Bordeaux where it thrives on the well-drained gravel-rich soils producing tannic wines with piercing blackcurrant fruits that develop complex cedarwood and cigar box nuances when fully mature.
The grape is widely planted in California where Cabernet Sauvignon based wines are distinguished by their rich mixture of cassis, mint, eucalyptus and vanilla oak. It is planted across Australia and with particular success in Coonawarra where it is suited to the famed Terra Rossa soil. In Italy barrique aged Cabernet Sauvignon is a key component in Super Tuscans such as Tignanello and Sassicaia, either on its own or as part of a blend with Sangiovese.
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David Ramey is renowned for producing exceptional single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay wines but in recent years has added to the range a less expensive generic offering of both varietals. The Cabernet Sauvignon, leavened with a total of 12% of four other varietals, namely Merlot, Malbec, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc, is produced in a classic Bordeaux style and embraces the classy hallmarks of the best of that region combined with the richness of fruit of a top Napa Valley vintage.
The juice is fermented with natural yeasts, is aged for 2 years in oak barrels, half French, half American, 50% new, 50% one year-old. Fine lees are left in contact with the juice and this imbues the wine with a depth and complexity which largely subdues the effect of the oak on the palate.
37% of this blend is from declassified fruit from David’s celebrated Larkmead vineyard, and this may explain why the wine has such exceptional polish. Aromas of cassis, blueberry and cedar dominate, and on the palate the ripeness of fruit is pronounced but in no way overdone. There is lovely minerality to balance the glossy fruit and the tannins are extremely fine-grained. Drinking now but will improve over the next 5 years. Bottled unfiltered.
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