GALERIE Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

WINERY

Lamborn

WINE MAKER

Heidi Barrett

APPLELLATION

Howell Mountain

BARREL

22 months in French Oak(34%new)

BOTTLE DATE

40742

NOTE

This wine exhibit Heidi's winemaking style of perfect balance. This makes the wines a wonderful match with food, but also allows for long term cellar aging. The 2009 Cabernet's will continue to improve for another two-four years, and hold another ten years beyond that. This wine exhibit the mountain characteristic of mineral, with very evident, but soft tannins. The vineyard sits at 2200 ft elevation and is one of the highest vineyards in the Howell Mountain Appellation. “ Gorgeous dark blackberry color with open and intense ripe fruit aromas. This wine smells like ripe black cherries, blackberry, with a touch of sweet vanilla, caramel, toasty French oak. Quite pure in its clean aromas which lead to similar ripe, concentrated purity of flavor. It feels very fat, round, and lush in the mouth with layered flavor bursts of fully ripened mountain-top Cabernet. Tannins are moderate and ‘in check’, leading to a mid-palate chewy texture with a light dusty finish. This is a big bold mountaintop Cabernet with finesse and silkiness even though it is a big expressive wine”

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