Winemaker Notes
This rich, fruity Cabernet Sauvignon offers intense flavors of black currants, blackberries, and spices.
Enjoy it alone or pair it with pasta, poultry, pork, and beef dishes.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A fruity, dense and balanced 100% cabernet sauvignon with aromas of blackberries, dark plums and some bark. Medium-bodied with fine, firm tannins. It has a juicy berry character at the center and a more serious and compact expression toward the finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
This Cabernet Sauvignon grown in the Boutenac Hills of Corbières has a nose of black plum, pencil shavings, strawberry preserves and blackberry. The wine is robust and fruit filled with faint notes of cedar and dried grape stem. Pair with steak, rotisserie chicken and portobello mushroom.
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Wine Spectator
This Cabernet Sauvignon grown in the Boutenac Hills of Corbières has a nose of black plum, pencil shavings, strawberry preserves and blackberry. The wine is robust and fruit filled with faint notes of cedar and dried grape stem. Pair with steak, rotisserie chicken and portobello mushroom.
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.
A catchall term for the area surrounding the Languedoc and Roussillon, Pays d’Oc is the most important IGP (Indication Géographique Protégée) in France, producing 85% of this country’s wine under the IGP designation. (IGP indicates wine of good quality, not otherwise elevated to the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) status.)
The near perfect Mediterranean climate combined with dry, cool winds from the north, optimal soils, altitudes and exposures make Pays d’Oc an ideal wine growing region. Single varietal wines and blends are possible here and while many types of grapes do well in Pays d’Oc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Grenache and Cinsault are among the most common.