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Date Printed: 5/22/2013
Cuvaison Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Cuvaison Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
 (search item no. 93347)

PRICE ON 5/22/2013: $41.99

ratings pedigree (past vintages):
2008 Wine & Spirits rating: 91 points
2007 Wine Enthusiast rating: 93 points
2007 Wine & Spirits rating: 92 points
2004 Wine Enthusiast rating: 91 points

Winemaker's Notes:

 Color: Black cherry red

Aroma: Cassis, black cherry, blackberry, licorice and persimmon

Taste: Dense cherry and black cherry fruit with hints of chocolate and plum. A blockbuster, mountain grown Cabernet, bursting with fresh fruit and ripe, mouth-coating tannins.
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About Cuvaison Winery:

 Cuvaison's Cabernet Sauvignon is sourced from the winery's Estate owned vineyard, some 1,200 feet up the slopes of Napa Valley’s Mt. Veeder. The schisty, gravelly, well-drained hillside soils severely restrict the yields, producing Lilliputian quantities of solid, jam-packed Cabernet backed by vibrant acidity and fine, mountain tannins. An exceptional site for Cabernet, the estate features well-drained, gravelly soils, a generally southern aspect and an elevation that keeps it, if wind swept, above the fog. The site gives Cuvaison the intense concentration one expects of a hillside vineyard while the soil offers just enough loamy counterpoint to round out those tannins with time.