Crios de Susana Balbo Cabernet Sauvignon 2014

  • 89 Robert
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Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2014

Size
750ML

ABV
14.5%

Features
Screw Cap

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Intense, dark ruby color with enticing aromas of ripe, black plums and black currants. The richly textured plum and currant flavors are joined by accents of dark chocolate and some vanilla-scented oak. The ripe, vibrant tannins give the wine beautiful structure and an amazingly long finish. This is a big wine for just a little money. Drink it now or over the next few years to enjoy the fruit flavors at their best.

It will pair well with traditional Cabernet-friendly foods like grilled or roasted meats.

Professional Ratings

  • 89
    The 2014 Críos Cabernet Sauvignon is elegant, earthy and balanced. A with all the Crios range it now has a small description of the style on the label that is a help for the consumer to know what they are going to find in the bottle. Today 75% of the grapes used in the winery are from Uco and 25% from the Agrelo zone in Luján de Cuyo. The red Crios range is mainly grapes from Tupungato with one-fourth grapes from Agrelo. It fermented in stainless steel with some inner staves and then matured in third-use barrels as they aim for fruit-driven wines without aromas of wood. There are plenty of plums, dark spices, balsamic aromas and notes of aromatic herbs and a ripe Cabernet character. Fresh, with good acidity with more tension and nerve in the palate with less alcohol and more balance. The tannins are very polished with a velvety texture.

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Crios de Susana Balbo

Crios de Susana Balbo

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Crios de Susana Balbo, South America
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After 22 years of winemaking, Susana Balbo has a strong sense of what she wants from her wines. From every harvest, she creates the grandest possible wines under her Susana Balbo label. To achieve this, she makes a rigorous selection of the finest barrels prior to making her final blends, dividing them into the parents (reserve level wines) and offspring or "crios."

Wines under her Crios label display ripe fruit flavors, excellent balance and concentration, and are meant to be enjoyed in their vibrant youth. These wines are produced under Dominio del Plata's code of sustainable agriculture.

Like Susana's own crios (a boy and a girl), they are extremely lovable and fun to be around. The label features a series of three connected and overlapping hands, an image inspired by a Mayan artifact. The artifact illustrates the interconnectedness of every generation, and the irony that we will be both the parent and the offspring at different times in our lives.

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A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.

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By far the largest and best-known winemaking province in Argentina, Mendoza is responsible for over 70% of the country’s enological output. Set in the eastern foothills of the Andes Mountains, the climate is dry and continental, presenting relatively few challenges for viticulturists during the growing season. Mendoza, divided into several distinctive sub-regions, including Luján de Cuyo and the Uco Valley, is the source of some of the country’s finest wines.

For many wine lovers, Mendoza is practically synonymous with Malbec. Originally a Bordelaise variety brought to Argentina by the French in the mid-1800s, here it found success and renown that it never knew in its homeland where a finicky climate gives mixed results. Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot and Pinot Noir are all widely planted here as well (and sometimes even blended with each other or Malbec). Mendoza's main white varieties include Chardonnay, Torrontés, Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon.

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