Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
All Cabernet Sauvignon from a site in the Happy Canyon region of Santa Barbara, the 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Vogelzang Vineyard is a ruby/purple-hued beauty offering up medium to full-bodied aromas and flavors of cassis, mulberries, crushed violets, cedary herbs, and spice. With beautifully elegant, silky, polished tannins and rock star balance, this classic, old-school Santa Barbara County Cabernet Sauvignon will evolve gracefully for 15-20 years.
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Tasting Panel
Silky and bright with plum nose and bright garnet color, fresh and juicy with clean, open flavor devoid of the herbal tones that infect many lesser cabs, from an exciting and relatively new appellation.
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Wine Enthusiast
Dark-blackberry aromas meet with crushed rock, turned soil, espresso bean and a light minty tone on the nose of this bottling. The palate snaps with fresh blackberry, orange-peel, black-pepper and wild sage flavors, framed in a firm structure.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.
On the eastern end of the Santa Ynez Valley, the rolling hills of the tiny Happy Canyon AVA produce top quality reds from Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Syrah and whites from Sauvignon blanc. The region’s low-nutrient soil grows smaller vines and in turn, higher quality wine grapes.