Anderson's Conn Valley Vineyards Eloge 2015
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This powerful wine is a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Cabernet Franc, 15% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot. It's intense yet polished, offering dried herb components around tones of cedar, clove and violet, with background notes of coffee and mocha. The tannins are well integrated and supportive.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
A blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 8% Petit Verdot, the deep garnet-purple 2015 Eloge Proprietary Red Wine has a nose of baked berries and plums with earth, aniseed, garrigue and tapenade hints. Full-bodied, rich and concentrated in the mouth with chewy tannins and lovely spicy layers, it finishes with an herbal lift.
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Jeb Dunnuck
The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Eloge is a blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 8% Petit Verdot that was brought up in 45% new barrels. It's another inky colored beauty that offers lots of black cherries, mulberry, leafy herbs, spice and floral nuances. With its oak pushed all the way into the background, it's medium to full-bodied, nicely structured and balanced. It needs short-term cellaring to flesh out but will keep for 15+.
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Separated from the Napa Valley floor by a north/south running ridge, the world-renowned wineries of Joseph Heitz and Joseph Phelps are located on the west side of this ridge and the Anderson's Estate Vineyards are on the east side at a perfect elevation of 400 feet.
The vineyards not only enjoy Napa Valley's superb microclimate, but share the same Bale Loam Series as are found on the famous Rutherford Bench. This combination of clay-loam soil and microclimate produces up to 106 tons of exceptional fruit each year. One from which a world-class Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blend, called Éloge, can be artfully handcrafted.
Undoubtedly proving its merit over and over, Napa Valley is a now a leading force in the world of prestigious red wine regions. Though Cabernet Sauvignon dominates Napa Valley, other red varieties certainly thrive here. Important but often overlooked include Merlot and other Bordeaux varieties well-regarded on their own as well as for their blending capacities. Very old vine Zinfandel represents an important historical stronghold for the region and Pinot noir is produced in the cooler southern parts, close to the San Pablo Bay.
Perfectly situated running north to south, the valley acts as a corridor, pulling cool, moist air up from the San Pablo Bay in the evenings during the hot days of the growing season, which leads to even and slow grape ripening. Furthermore the valley claims over 100 soil variations including layers of volcanic, gravel, sand and silt—a combination excellent for world-class red wine production.