Winemaker Notes
The 2019 Sarah’s Vineyard Estate Cabernet Sauvignon has a generous burst of rich cherry, black plum, and violet aromas and flavors. Hints of herbs and baking spice along with oregano round out this wine that has a smooth finish and tannins.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Dark and extracted aromas of berry and plum show on the ripe nose of this bottling. The palate is saved by solid tannin management, which form a tense frame to uphold the liquified blackberry flavors.
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.
Home to some of California’s most influential winemaking pioneers of the late 1800s, Paul Masson and Charles Lefranc, the Santa Clara Valley AVA hugs up against the southwestern border of today’s famous Silicon Valley and excels in the production of bold reds, as well as some whites.