1978 Ridge Santa Cruz, Cabernet Sauvignon, California

1978 Ridge Santa Cruz, Cabernet Sauvignon, California

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1978 Ridge Santa Cruz, Cabernet Sauvignon, California

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Description

Another California wine that looked amazingly sweet after the Cheval. There was an attractive dustiness about this one too, along with a slightly burnt note and lots of attractive spice. Very complex. A lovely Monte Bello and a lovely pair of wines, closer together in style than the 1986 Cheval and Dominus.
Jancis Robinson MW - jancisrobinson.com - June 2010

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Cabernet Sauvignon

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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