TOR Cimarossa Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

  • 97 Robert
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  • 92 Wine
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Region

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Vintage
2012

Size
750ML

Features
Collectible

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Winemaker Notes

The 2012 Cimarossa is an absolute black hole of a wine. This is a wine for lovers of big, intense and super rich mountain Cabernets. This vintage on Howell Mountain was about as ideal as a winemaker could ever want, and this wine shows that. This is not red, not ruby, not garnet - this wine is black. The complete saturation of color is amazing. On the palate this wine is classic Howell Mountain Cabernet with big tannins that just coat the palate. As big as the tannins are though, they are still sweet - so they are never drying in any way. This is a wine that is all about the black fruits - blackberries, black cherries and roasted meats.

Professional Ratings

  • 97

    The spectacular 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Cimarossa Vineyard has exceeded my enthusiastic notes of last year. Its dense purple color is accompanied by notes of mulberries, spring flowers, toast, wet rocks, cassis and blackberries. With great intensity, a full-bodied, dramatic, voluptuous texture, superb purity and a fabulously long finish of 45-50 seconds, it should drink well for two decades.

  • 92

    Intense and vibrant, with a rawness in the texture from start to finish. A measure of heat joins the patently ripe, broad, rich fruit on the finish, which sails on, accompanied by a pretty dash of oak. Drink now through 2028. 

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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.

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Today Cabernet Sauvignon is the star of this part of Napa’s rugged, eastern hills, but Zinfandel was responsible for giving the Howell Mountain growing area its original fame in the late 1800s.

Winemaking in Howell Mountain was abandoned during Prohibition, and wasn’t reawakened until the arrival of Randy Dunn, a talented winemaker famous for the success of Caymus in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early eighties, he set his sights on the Napa hills and subsequently astonished the wine world with a Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon. Shortly thereafter Howell Mountain became officially recognized as the first sub-region of Napa Valley (1983).

With vineyards at 1,400 to 2,000 feet in elevation, they predominantly sit above the fog line but the days in Howell Mountain remain cooler than those in the heart of the valley, giving the grapes a bit more time on the vine.

The Howell Mountain AVA includes 1,000 acres of vineyards interspersed by forestlands in the Vaca Mountains. The soils, shallow and infertile with good drainage, are volcanic ash and red clay and produce highly concentrated berries with thick skins. The resulting wines are full of structure and potential to age.

Today Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petite Sirah thrive in this sub-appellation, as well as its founding variety, Zinfandel.

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