Quintessa 2008
Cabernet Sauvignon
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
2008
Size
750ML
ABV
14.2%
Features
Collectible
Your Rating
Somm Note
Winemaker Notes
Quintessa 2008 opens with fragrant plum and raspberry aromas with notes of cola, cloveand white chocolate rounding out a delicate perfume. The wine enters the palate withsweet red currant and plum fruit flavors and a silky mouthfeel. As it coats the mouth, concentrateddark fruit flavors emerge with succulent balanced tannins, a subtle impression of well-integrated oak and sweetness from the rich, ripe fruit. This vintage will gain complexity in the bottle and age gracefully for a decade and more.
Professional Ratings
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Connoisseurs' Guide
There is no big burst of fruit or towering wave of sweet oak to make this one an immediate turner of heads, but there is a real sense of sophistication at work here with plenty of depth and layering right from the start. The wine is at once both slightly supple and fairly firm in feel, and its vitality is hard to ignore. It teases with touches of toast and dusty earth spice while hewing to a very long line of optimally ripened currants, and it has all the right pieces in all the right places to grow famously for ten years or more.
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DDE112864_2008 Item# 112864