Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This is a brawny, full-bodied and firmly tannic wine that's nevertheless seductive, complex and layered. A dark color and impressions of tobacco, black currant and sage make it delicious to sip. Best through 2027.
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Tasting Panel
Deep garnet color and a smooth texture, with concentrated flavors of plum, blackberry, and spice. Toasty, rich, and dense with good length and balance, this is an incredible value.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2018 Matchbook is a spot-on, delicious wine for the everyday dinner table. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers an excellent mix of black fruit and dried herbs. Enjoy its medium bodied and pleasing textures with grilled pork chops. (Tasted: June 4, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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.
Mitigated by mild Sacramento River Delta breezes, the Dunnigan Hills appellation is in the northwest portion of Yolo County and has a Mediterranean climate.