Sbragia Wall Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
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Sbragia Wall Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, California
ratings pedigree (past vintages):
winemaker's notes:
"It's no secret that I love mountain Cabernet Sauvignon and year after year the fruit from Mt.
Veeder's Wall Vineyard justifies my passion. There's an intensity and concentration to the grapes
that practically jumps out of the crusher, and with careful handling this intensity translates to a
wine of enormous depth and richness. An excellent vintage, 2007 produced a wine with generous
aromas and flavors of ripe black cherries, plums, cola berry, and cocoa powder, deftly balanced
with the sweet toasty notes of classy French oak. Velvety-smooth, this is what I call an "instant
gratification" wine, though cellaring will undoubtedly reward the collector with additional layers
of complex flavors."
alcohol by volume:
14.8%
critical acclaim:
"One of my favorite offerings is the brilliant 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Wall Vineyard. From an 1,800 foot elevation vineyard, it is a blend of 89% Cabernet Sauvignon and 11% Cabernet Franc. Black raspberry, blueberry, licorice, incense and graphite characteristics are accompanied by an opaque purple color, gorgeous complexity and richness and hints of toasty oak as well as flowers. The wine is generous, savory and expansive, but the wealth of extravagant fruit nearly hides abundant tannin in the finish. This brilliant Cabernet is actually underpriced for its quality. Drink it over the next two decades.
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96 Points
The Wine Advocate
"Rustic and rough-hewn, dense and chewy, with intense wild berry, cola, mineral, forest floor, cedar and graphite. Yet for all its wildness and rusticity, there's much to be enjoyed in hiking through the rocky mix of flavors."
92 Points
Wine Spectator
"Good full ruby. Wild, exotic aromas of dark fruits and licorice lifted by violet. Then sweet, tight and powerful, with broad black cherry and cassis flavors enlivened by minerality. The largest-scaled and most powerful of this set of cabernets, but with the stuffing to support its substantial ripe tannins. Ends with a perfumed note of candied violet. "My kind of cabernet," notes Ed Sbragia."
91 Points
International Wine Cellar
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