Buena Vista Chateau Buena Vista Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
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This wine celebrates Buena Vista's long history in Napa Valley, with grapes sourced from all over the region, including St. Helena, Rutherford, Stags Leap and Calistoga -and the label showcasing the impressive edifice at Buena Vista, depicts the winery built by its founder; Count Agoston Haraszthy, in the late 19th century. Taste the tilled soil, the dusty cherry-choclolate cedar and the opulent, finely grained tannins that over deliver for the price in this deep magenta-hued powerhouse.
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Napa Valley, one of the great paragons of Cabernet Sauvignon, continues to produce some of the world's finest wines. The 2013 Chateau Buena Vista is clearly an impressive effort. In its current youthful state, the wine needs decanting and aeration to bring out is subtleties. Showing bold red and black fruit flavors, sweet oak accents, and savory spices, it pairs beautifully with seared lamb chops. (Tasted: May 11, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
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A new offering from the Sonoma-based producer meant to recall the estate's original founding in the Napa Valley, this wine sources from across that appellation and impresses right away in its succulent and soft approach to the variety. With a backbone of cassis and vanilla, it's expansive and lengthy, velvety in texture and very satisfying.
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Brian Maloney makes this floral Cabernet primarily from grapes grown in St. Helena. Its heady purple fruit and chocolate-rich tannins gain detail with air, developing a rose-petal scent and a deep soil character, significantly influenced by new oak but finely integrated and clean. The wine finishes with an openness that suggests it will age well.
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Before there were vineyards in every valley north of San Francisco, before Napa and Sonoma were household names, before there was a California wine world at all, there was Buena Vista. Founded in 1857, Buena Vista is California’s first premium winery, and its history is as colorful as it is proud. Today, the legend is being re-born under the vision of Jean-Charles Boisset, with Winemaker Brian Maloney in the cellar. The winery's future is its past… its vivacious, colorful, and pioneering past!
Buena Vista Winery has a rich, delicious heritage as the first premium, and certainly the most colorful, of all of the wineries in California. Founded in 1857 by Agoston Haraszthy, the self-proclaimed “Count”, Buena Vista Winery is California’s first premium winery. The Count’s passion for innovation and excellence not only led to California’s first premium winery, but also to the development of the California wine world as we know it today. The Count saw the grand vision for producing fine wine in Sonoma, and Buena Vista was his vinicultural laboratory. He created the first gravity flow winery in California and excavated the first wine caves. The Count had been the first to experiment with Redwood barrels for aging and fermenting, and he brought over 300 different varieties from Europe to California. Buena Vista joined the Boisset Collection in May 2011. Today, Proprietor Jean-Charles Boisset is returning Buena Vista to its original glory with the complete restoration and re-opening of the champagne cellars, which have been unavailable to the public for over 20 years. Buena Vista wines are being driven to greater heights under Winemaker Brian Maloney, including the reintroduction of Sonoma as well as Napa Valley, in honor of where it all began!
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.