Winemaker Notes
Blend : 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc, 0,5% Petit Verdot, 0,5% Malbec
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: If the Highway 29 in the Napa Valley is paved in gold, then the 2016 Turnbull Cabernet Sauvignon should be crowned the leader of the pack. TASTING NOTES: This wine is ravishingly beautiful, perfectly provocative, and seriously focused. Its aromas and flavors of ripe blackberries, enticing violets, tantalizing oak accents make it a perfect pairing candidate with a crown roast of lamb. (Tasted: November 28, 2018, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Enthusiast
This wine offers remarkable value for the quality—a stellar commingling of cranberry, cassis and black cherry. With a robust mouthfeel of plump juicy fruit, gun smoke and firm tannin, it shows integrated oak flavors and plenty of underlying acidity to remain fresh in the glass. Editors’ Choice.
One of the most prestigious wines of the world capable of great power and grace, Napa Valley Cabernet is a leading force in the world of fine, famous, collectible red wine. Today the Napa Valley and Cabernet Sauvignon are so intrinsically linked that it is difficult to discuss one without the other. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that this marriage came to light; sudden international recognition rained upon Napa with the victory of the Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1976 Judgement of Paris.
Cabernet Sauvignon undoubtedly dominates Napa Valley today, covering half of the land under vine, commanding the highest prices per ton and earning the most critical acclaim. Cabernet Sauvignon’s structure, acidity, capacity to thrive in multiple environs and ability to express nuances of vintage make it perfect for Napa Valley where incredible soil and geographical diversity are found and the climate is perfect for grape growing. Within the Napa Valley lie many smaller sub-AVAs that express specific characteristics based on situation, slope and soil—as a perfect example, Rutherford’s famous dust or Stags Leap District's tart cherry flavors.