Miner Family Stagecoach Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
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Blend: 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Cabernet Franc
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Well-built, with a core of steeped black currant and blackberry fruit that is dense and compact, showing flashes of sweet tobacco, licorice snap and loam throughout, hinting at evolution. Fruit saturates the finish but maintains energy for balance. Best from 2021 through 2030.
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Wine Enthusiast
This has a sizable addition of 13% Cabernet Franc, which works nicely to provide an herbal earthiness that appeals. Juicy and broad on the palate in generous black fruit that doesn’t hold back in ripeness of density, it shows complexity and structure, with chalky tannin and oak.
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One of the most prestigious wines of the world capable of great power and grace, Napa Valley Cabernet is a leading force in the world of fine, famous, collectible red wine. Today the Napa Valley and Cabernet Sauvignon are so intrinsically linked that it is difficult to discuss one without the other. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that this marriage came to light; sudden international recognition rained upon Napa with the victory of the Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1976 Judgement of Paris.
Cabernet Sauvignon undoubtedly dominates Napa Valley today, covering half of the land under vine, commanding the highest prices per ton and earning the most critical acclaim. Cabernet Sauvignon’s structure, acidity, capacity to thrive in multiple environs and ability to express nuances of vintage make it perfect for Napa Valley where incredible soil and geographical diversity are found and the climate is perfect for grape growing. Within the Napa Valley lie many smaller sub-AVAs that express specific characteristics based on situation, slope and soil—as a perfect example, Rutherford’s famous dust or Stags Leap District's tart cherry flavors.