Casa Piena Cabernet Sauvignon 2011
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Casa Piena’s 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon is promising. Savory herbs, mint licorice and sweet red berries are layered into this attractive mid-weight wine. It will be interesting to see where the 2011 goes in the next year, but all the signature of this site are present. Anticipated maturity: 2016-2026. Range: 90-92
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Wine Spectator
Trim and in sync with the vintage, offering a core of tart red berry, blackberry, licorice and loamy earth flavors and a mix of herbs and dill. Well-proportioned, ending with firm tannins and a graceful, lingering finish. Drink now through 2023.
He and his wife Gail found their new life and their new home in San Francisco to be a virtual fairytale come true and moved there permanently in 1991. They returned to Ohio for 5 years in 1998 as President, CEO and part owner of the Cleveland Browns expansion franchise. Their plan was always to return to Northern California and they did so in 2004. The San Francisco 49ers and the NFL became an extension of a strong sense of family that they both carried with them from their native Ohio. After 25 years of happily competing in the world of professional sports and creating a treasure trove of memories, Gail and Carmen knew it was time for a change. They found it in the amazing lifestyle and challenges that viticulture and the Napa Valley offered. Wine, sunshine, great food and romance were the enticements that could not be resisted.
Great wines taste best when they take their natural place on a table surrounded by family and friends. More than the sum of the flavors in a glass, savoring wine is about a lively shared experience with people you want to be with. This is the philosophy that inspires Casa Piena, which translated from Italian literally means FULL HOUSE. The five major blocks of Policy Vineyard are named after each of Carmen’s three sons and two daughters (thus, three of a kind and a pair). This marvelous combination now includes eight grandchildren which truly does create a HOUSE that is FULL.
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.
One of Napa Valley's most historic sub-appellations, Yountville spreads through some of the valley's ideal cooler sites and enjoys success with a handful of different and significant grape varieties.
Syrah competes strongly with Cabernet Sauvignon here for optimal vineyard real estate followed by Pinot noir, Pinot blanc and Sauvignon blanc.
This sub-AVA of Napa Valley is rich in the history that makes Napa Valley what it is today, and not just for red wines. Moët & Chandon entered the California winemaking business via Yountville in 1973 with the establishment Domaine Chandon. Their goal has always been to produce top quality méthode champenoise sparkling wines.
Christian Moueix, originally responsible for managing Chateau Petrus and La Fleur-Petrus in Pomerol, arrived in Yountville in the early 1980s. He formed a partnership with Rohin Lail and Marcia Smith, inheritors of Napanook vineyard from their father John Daniel of Inglenook in Rutherford. In 1995 Moueix became sole owner of Napanook and chose the name Dominus, which today produces some of Napa’s highest scoring, age-worthy Bordeaux Blends.