In this flight we are tasting wines from the 2005 vintage. Each is labeled Cabernet Sauvignon from the Napa Valley.<\/p>\n
Mount Veeder Winery, Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 <\/strong>There’s a good bit of capsicum in the nose with a note of caramel and a very chewy experience in the mouth. The grapes behind this wine include 15% Merlot. The wine was aged in oak for 24 months, 91% of the oak was French and 84% was new. Vinted and bottled in Oakville 14.5% $45.99 at wineaccess.com Mount Veeder Winery<\/a><\/p>\n Louis M. Martini, Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 <\/strong>The nose features sweet brown spices while in the mouth the feel is supple and full of cherry fruit. There’s great length in this elegant Cabernet with a linger sense of vanilla – nice. V&B in St. Helena 14.2% $27 at the winery for the current vintage ’06 Louis Martini<\/a><\/p>\n Merryvale, Napa Valley, Starmont, Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 <\/strong>The red fruit is bright and framed by acidity with the ripe tannins adding a little chewiness. P&B in Napa 14.5% $26.99 at Linwood Wine Co. Merryvale<\/a><\/p>\n Charles Creek, Napa Valley, La Sonrisa del Tecolote, Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 <\/strong>There’s a hefty amount of toasty oak on this wine with herbaceousness and meatiness in the background and firm structure. V&B in Graton 14.7% $29.99 at the winery Charles Creek<\/a><\/p>\n All of the wines in this flight were provided to the class by the SFCWC.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this flight we are tasting wines from the 2005 vintage. Each is labeled Cabernet Sauvignon from the Napa Valley. Mount Veeder Winery, Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 There’s a good bit of capsicum in the nose with a note of caramel and a very chewy experience in the mouth. The grapes behind this wine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,26,51],"tags":[535,534,536,527],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-california","category-napa-valley","tag-charles-creek-vineyard","tag-louis-m-martini-winery","tag-merryvale","tag-mount-veeder-winery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4813,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/4813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjwine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}