Ramey Annum Cabernet Sauvignon 2008

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Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2008

Size
750ML

ABV
15%

Features
Collectible

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Winemaker Notes

This third release is composed of 95% Cabernet Sauvignon from the J. Davies Vineyard on Diamond Mountain and 5% Petit Verdot from our Pedregal Vineyard in Oakville. While we try not to use too much new oak, the density of this wine allowed it to spend 26 months in all new barrels, after which it was bottled without filtration. As with all of our wines, this was fermented with native yeasts and bacteria.

Professional Ratings

  • 95

    Also still youthful, the 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Annum is a blockbuster from Napa that has full-bodied notes of creme de cassis, crushed flowers, dried herbs, and spice box. It’s rich, fabulously concentrated, and textured, and a brilliant wine that’s still youthful.

  • 93

    Deep ruby colored, the 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Annum is blended with 5% Petit Verdot and opens with unusual blue fruit notes—baked blueberry and boysenberry—with dark chocolate, smoked meats, cracked pepper, toasted cumin and fenugreek, graphite and loamy earth. Silky in texture but firmly structured by grainy tannins and juicy acidity, it's medium-bodied with a very long, chocolaty finish. 380 cases were made.

  • 93
    Very tight, dense and backward, packing lots of fruit and tannins. The up-front flavors, built around dried currant, mineral, graph¬ite, camphor and cedar, are slow to unfold, showing touches of loamy earth and tobacco on the finish. Best from 2013 through 2024.

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David Ramey is among a distinguished group of pioneering American vintners who revolutionized modern-day winemaking and elevated California to the forefront of the international wine community. Hailed as “Professor Chardonnay” by Wine Spectator, David’s groundbreaking work with indigenous yeasts, sur lies aging and malolactic and barrel fermentation yielded a new California Chardonnay style that was richer, more lush and silky smooth. Ramey Wine Cellars crafts exceptional expressions of Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and Pinot Noir from top vineyards in Sonoma and Napa.

After earning a graduate degree at UC Davis, with his thesis on how aromas evolve in wine, David Ramey pursued a hands-on education in Old World winemaking traditions. He worked at Chateau Pétrus and would later apply these time-honored methods to California’s premier vineyards. In California, David led winemaking for Matanzas Creek, Chalk Hill, Dominus Estate and Rudd Estate. In 1996, David and his wife Carla founded Ramey Wine Cellars with the vision of crafting classically styled, elegant and balanced wines that age beautifully.

Still exclusively owned by the Rameys, the next generation, Claire and Alan Ramey, work at the winery as well. They have been training under their father and working in various roles across the winery, from vineyards to production to winemaking and more. Over the years, a team of highly talented colleagues have joined the winery where they continually push to make the best wines possible. Ramey Wine Cellars crafts exceptional expressions of Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and Pinot Noir from top vineyards in Sonoma and Napa. Tastings are offered by appointment in Healdsburg, California.

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