How To Use Cabernet In A Sentence
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Previous vintages of Katnook's Cabernet Sauvignon were equally successful.
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With very few exceptions, however, Cabernet Sauvignon was left to command California's highest wine prices, Merlot to swell sales volumes.
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A blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, this rich wine has good acidity and luscious raisin notes.
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For $15, this is the kind of cabernet franc that I'd make my house wine.
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While winemaker Mike Hirby is no longer as of just recently making wines at Realm, his legacy is impressive, especially with wines such as this dense, full-bodied Cabernet marked by notes of dark cherry and spice.
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But by next autumn, you could be drinking a white cabernet sauvignon wine.
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Or when they want to start with, say, a Chardonnay, then switch to a Cabernet with the meal.
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And what Sauvignon Blanc does for white wines, Cabernet Sauvignon can do for reds.
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As the glasses clinked and the people chatted about cheeky Cabernets and perfect pinotages, representatives of the wine producers waited anxiously to be put to the test.
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Red Bordeaux is the world's best wine, and Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are the best grapes.
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Non-vintage blends change slightly from season to season as older vintages are replaced, which explains why this ripe, soft, velvety, blackcurranty Cabernet is gentler and creamier than previous batches.
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It is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Grenache, producing a strong muscular wine.
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Up next was the 1990 Mount Mary Vineyard Lilydale Cabernets Quintets, a lighter but rewarding style of cabernet that showing very well with a secondary blackcurrant note, lovely delicacy and great precision with no greenness or herbaciousness.
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The left bank cru borgeois wines can also be good bang for the buck wines in great vintages if your craving a cooler climate cabernet sauv based wine.
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If the Cabernet were a $100 bottle from Napa Valley, no doubt elegant or sleek would be more along the lines of what the winemaker was hoping for.
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Merrill added that he thought pinotage should be made a national hero while Spurrier agreed with the Australian about the high level of tannin in our Cabernet Sauvignons and some of the Shiraz.
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A big, juicy steak goes well with a big, juicy wine such as a Cabernet Sauvignon or a Shiraz, while a chicken dish is better with wine containing less tannin, such as a Valpolicella and Beaujolais or a white Sancerre.
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Venge, who also produces Calistoga Ranch's private-label Cabernet, speeds up the typical lengthy blending process by offering just three varietals - a Stagecoach Cabernet and Syrah as well as a Merlot from his father's Saddleback vineyard.
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He stores his rainbows on ice and black pepper, then serves pan-fried fillets cooked with portobello mushroom, spring onion, and a Cabernet.
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For example, you can find blends of Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and so on.
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This applies to no more than a handful of wine styles: claret, red and white Burgundy, Rhône reds, Tuscan and Piedmontese reds, vintage port, vintage champagne, a few Spanish reds, Mosel Rieslings and Californian Cabernets.
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The 2004 Merlot is blended with 17% Cabernet Franc and has a long -- somewhat peppery finish.
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This is a very convincing Cabernet-driven wine; the nose is light and youthfully sweet.
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These are well-made varietal wines, Cabernet franc, Merlot and Chardonnay, selling for around $25 a bottle.
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Additionally, the floral and fruity red appellations Chinon and Bourgueil are produced from the Cabernet Franc grown in the region, with Chinon being the most common red wine of the whole valley.
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Other varieties enjoying modish popularity in the late 1990s were Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, and some which have origins in the Rhône; Syrah and Viognier are foremost.
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As Bob Travers ventures to say, “all that talk of physiological ripeness these days with cabernet is simply an excuse to try and get huge crop loads to ripen sufficiently, as cabernet is always going to taste really green at those yields unless you let the grapes hang out there until they are nearly raisins.”
Mayacamas - one of the greatest California Cabernets by John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
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A blend of 80% merlot, 15% cabernet franc, 3% malbec and 2% petit verdot, this medium-dark garnet is very old world on the nose.
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Today their cultivated land is up to 50 acres and includes Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay grapes.
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We tried the bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, however it was a bit rough and not like the wines we were used to in Australia.
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They taste the best because the Cabernet grapes ripen late in the season - in September or even October.
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From Lenn Thompson: Cornerstone Cellars 2004 Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
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Would my Cabernet Sauvignon still be called Cabernet Sauvignon?" asks Carole Meredith, a professor in the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a vineyard owner.
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Luscious pan-broiled beef shares the plate with a great date of Cabernet-braised short ribs.
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For those who prefer red, the Gallo Twin Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is also a fine choice.
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However, more skilful growers and more determined winery owners have pushed several recent examples to heights heretofore not achieved, often with a stiffening soupçon of Cabernet Sauvignon.
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This outstanding wine has long been the standard by which great Chilean Cabernet is measured.
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The best summer-suitable reds that taste delicious chilled on hot days are lighter, lively, less alcoholic but more acidic wines made from restrained red grapes such as the Loire's Cabernet franc and Beaujolais' gamay.
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The winery produces award-winning Chardonnays and Cabernet Sauvignons that burst with the powerful flavors of the terroir.
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Drink a large glass of cabernet sauvignon three times a week.
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Cabernet, Chardonnay, Riesling, Semillion and muscat (for dessert wines) are the other important grapes.
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‘Our biggest sellers are Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, probably because we are a steakhouse,’ she says.
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Certain words are commonly associated with certain grape varieties, such as cassis and Cabernet Sauvignon, gooseberries and Sauvignon Blanc, or butter and Chardonnay.
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So if you find Pinot Noir a bit light and Cabernet Sauvignon a little too tannic and dry, Syrah along with Merlot is emerging as a very successful alternative New Zealand red wine style.
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Drink a large glass of cabernet sauvignon three times a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Cabernet Sauvignon 1999 is reduced to €14.20 a bottle - that is €3.50 off its regular price.
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A good Aussie Shiraz is hard to beat for value and body, although our own Syrah (same grape, different name) from Hawke's Bay, plus a few of our own Merlots and Cabernets are worth considering.
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But by next autumn, you could be drinking a white cabernet sauvignon wine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cult Cabernets ruled, along with first growth Bordeaux and grand cru Burgundy.
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Cabernet Sauvignon, which is the largest red wine variety, was up a substantial 35%, the equivalent of nearly 8 million cases, from the very light 2008 harvest.
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To my mind, cabernet sauvignon, as long as there's only a bit of it, interferes less with the architecture of sangiovese, merely strengthening the foundations rather than filling inthe crenellations as merlot does.
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The substantial proportion of Cabernet makes for a slightly more elegant wine, with a delicious combination of spice and blackcurrant fruit.
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Sadly, cabernet franc is not ever going to be an easy sell.
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Coonawarra is well known for producing Bordeaux-style Cabernet, while McLaren Vale produces typical New World Cabernet - rich, soft and ripe, with lashings of red berry fruit.
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Whether or not Finger Lakes reds have yet to arrive as a clear alternative, cabernet franc is widelyconsidered to bethe variety that shows the best quality and consistency of the Vitis viniferareds grown in the region.
Jason Feulner
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Drink a large glass of cabernet sauvignon three times a week.
Times, Sunday Times
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The range includes tumblers specifically designed for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet and so on.
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Last year I stopped for dinner at Chico's famous restaurant, where I had some fine cabernet from the extensive wine list and a steak dinner so huge that I couldn't finish it.
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After being opened for a day or more, the Chardonnay sometimes tasted softer and less oaky, the Cabernet rounder and less tannic.
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The vineyards of this propety overlook Saint Emilion and face south-east. This wine is produced from 70%Merlot, 30%Cabernet Sauvignon from 25 years old vines.
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Bight on Cabernet's heels are Merlot and, in the cooler, southern end of the valley (known as Carneros, an appellation Napa shares with Sonoma), Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
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In 2000, the vignerons took advantage of the incredible super-ripe Cabernet franc that came along with the vintage.
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This is not to say that Cabernet Sauvignon is always the antidote to vinous boredom.
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Know the difference between a Cabernet and a Chardonnay.
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Shaw Vineyard's 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon was released only this year, in adherence towinemaker Steve Shaw's philosophy that Finger Lakes reds should age for several years much like a Bordeaux.
Jason Feulner
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This is far-north wine-growing, and the grapes planted, the white Sauvignon and Chenin, the red Cabernet Franc and Gamay, are all varieties prized for their fairly acid and raw qualities.
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This is a gorgeous, perfectly ripe and totally consistent Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Tempranillo generally produces a softer, lusher style of wine than Cabernet, without the harsh tannins that are present in some young, high-end Cabernets.
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Certainly, Cabernets will age, but they take longer than other varieties and I wanted some mature wine sooner.
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The Cabernet Sauvignon punches above its weight with brambles, dark chocolate, vanilla and peppery spices.
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It is a very rich, plummy, spicy grape which lends softness to the sometimes rather serious Cabernet with plums, roses, spice, fruitcake, blackcurrant, pencil shavings.
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Napa cabernets and the so-called ‘cult’ cabs can be beastly expensive, but not necessarily better.
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They laughed, made jokes and bid on auction items such as a 1980 bottle of Parducci Cabernet Sauvignon.
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The area features a wide range of soils and microclimates, and is known for Shiraz, Cabernet, Grenache and Riesling.
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Exposes more writers and retailers to Finger Lakes cabernet franc from a strong vintage
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Less serious and composed than a Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, Shiraz is nevertheless not crass.
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Long famous for its Chardonnays and Cabernet Sauvignons, Sonoma is now garnering more attention for other varietals, such as Syrah and Merlot.
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And I was impressed enough to pick up a jar of Cabernet wine jelly, which I hope to use as a glaze on some lamb.
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Since 1977, he and his partner have been making Chardonnay, Cabernet and fumé blanc at the Napa Valley winery.
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The substantial proportion of Cabernet makes for a slightly more elegant wine, with a delicious combination of spice and blackcurrant fruit.
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This wine shows the classic Cabernet Sauvignon varietal charateristics of blackcurrant and choc-mint supported by subtly integrated oak and savoury tannins.
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Then again, perhaps we were just a bunch of Chardonnay (Cabernet Merlot, actually) swilling elitists totally out of touch with middle Australia.
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They laughed, made jokes and bid on auction items such as a 1980 bottle of Parducci Cabernet Sauvignon.
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I found the former virtues in the Cabernet-based wines I tasted on the left bank, particularly in villages such as Margaux, Pauillac, St-Estephe and St-Julien.
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Their use for such international varieties as Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc is also a recent phenomenon which has yielded both excellent results and some heavily over-oaked wines.
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Add 2 small cans of tomato paste, 1/2 cup Cabernet Sauvignon, and a palmful of brown sugar.
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Prices for multi-purpose grapes have fallen sharply as Americans have shifted to varietal wines made from Merlot, Cabernet, Zinfandel, or Chardonnay grapes.
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The region's distinctive gravelly soils lend themselves to some of New Zealand's top reds, particularly Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and - the new star, Syrah.
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The winery also produced a very wide range of other wines, but Cabernet was and is its mainstay.
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Second label cabernet sauvignons deliver good value for low cost
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But over-planted grapes such as Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Cabernet are set to continue the downslide as over 90,000 acres of vineyard have only just begun to come into production.
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Venda, which is a merlot and cabernet blend grown at a high elevation in the Colli Euganei in the Mount Venda Vineyard; and Agno Tinto, a syrah-based blend with a small percentage of other Italian varieties, including marzemino.
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Enjoy a single square of dark bittersweet chocolate with a glass of rich, earthy Cabernet Sauvignon or Syrah.
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It has been hard to persuade Chardonnay and Cabernet drinkers that sherry is worth trying - but change is afoot.
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After a few desultory paragraphs on Thomas Jefferson and Virginia's six American Viticultural Areas (a discussion that demonstrates only that they can read a map), the authors point out that Virginia specializes in vinifera varieties, "especially Riesling, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
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Mr. Chevallier believes the secret to the wine's quality is the concentration of flavor produced in the Cabernet Sauvignon, which is achieved by the depths the vines' roots reach into the ground, where the soil is at its most impoverished.
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Reds range from fresh fruity Gamays, through classic grape varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, to varieties such as the Gamaret and Zinfandel and also some excellent blends.
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Another goal was to upgrade the quality of the rustic indigenous pinotage and plant more Cabernet and Merlot.
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Prices for multi-purpose grapes have fallen sharply as Americans have shifted to varietal wines made from Merlot, Cabernet, Zinfandel, or Chardonnay grapes.
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To partner spicy or peppery dishes, New World Cabernets and Merlots generally stand up better than their European equivalents.
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Roanoke Vineyards 2004 Blend One ($30), named as such simply because this was the first wine blended when the wine was conceived, is made with 43% cabernet franc, 33% merlot and 24% cabernet sauvignon.
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Given that most Bordeaux blends based on Cabernet Sauvignon used to be cellared for 15 years, the contention that Pomerol wines were ready to be drunk after three to four years was seen as the height of convenience.
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Red Newt Cabernet Franc: The cheese softens the wine a bit, and accentuates the fruitiness.
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The flavors are a little straight forward, but this is still one of the best cabernet-based wines I've tasted from the Finger Lakes.
Standing Stone Vineyards 2005 Pinnacle
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Made with 38% merlot, 38% cabernet sauvignon, 12% cabernet franc and 12% petit verdot, this blend is a highly aromatic wine with aromas of black cherry, blackberry, blueberry jam, star anise and cinnamon.
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It is a luxuriously big Cabernet Sauvignon-driven wine, with heavy luscious fruit and firm, but supple tannins.
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Bunches of fat Cabernet and Merlot grapes hang on the vines, spread over 9.5 hectares around the château.
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And all of this relates to food passions, too: At a restaurant where the owner's passion is fish, we wouldn't usually expect to find great value in American Cabernet Sauvignon.
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The ripeness, the phenolic compound contents and the antioxidant activities of Cabernet Sauvignon grape berries from valley land of low altitude were higher than those of slope land of high altitude.
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And there's the Alexander Valley, 16,000 vineyard acres focused primarily on Cabernet, Merlot and Chardonnay.
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The 1991 Mayacamas cabernet is really beginning to blossom at sixteen years of age and offers up another very Graves-like personality on both the nose and palate.
Mayacamas - one of the greatest California Cabernets by John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
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The Cabernet Sauvignon punches above its weight with brambles, dark chocolate, vanilla and peppery spices.
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Clearly, students there are doing their homework, since this appellation, just 20 years old, is producing some outstanding wines: structured Cabernets and Merlots, crisp and interesting Chardonnays and Sauvignon Blancs.
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Eight years later, she planted 20 acres of cabernet, syrah and other grapes on a sun-drenched parcel in the hills.
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Bigger reds, such as Bordeaux's Cabernet Sauvignon, usually spend two years maturing in oak casks, as do Spain's gran reserva Riojas and Italy's brutish Barolos.
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The current release sells for $65, right in the middle of the Napa Cabernet pack but miles below the lofty prices staked on bigger, brawnier wines.
Visiting Mayacamas Vineyards, Napa Valley [guest post] | Dr Vino's wine blog
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When Incisa's Cabernet blend, Sassicaia (meaning "place of many stones"), finally reached the market with the 1968 vintage, it incited wine revolutionaries across Italy, thanks partly to its Bordeaux-rivaling depth and lusciousness -- from a vineyard in Nowheresville!
The Other Tuscany
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Grape variety(ies): Cabernet Sauvignon, originally from Bordeaux. Has found a new home in languedoc-roussillon, where it produces good wine when the yield is limited.
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From his harvest, Mr. Salahi made red and white wines, including a riesling, cabernet savignon and gewurztraminer.
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Heitz's Cabernets are straight and unblended.
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This plush, plummy Cabernet from the stellar 2007 vintage is an easy-drinking pleasure.
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Most were produced from Shiraz or Cabernet Sauvignon grapes - or a combination of both.
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Colour: This young Cabernet Sauvignon has a bright ruby red colour.
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The Humanitas 2003 Monterey County Cabernet Sauvignon is super smooth and filled with just-picked blueberries and hints of hot chocolate.
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Savoury, angular cabernet tannins combined with structural tightness induce a perception of inkiness that should mellow with maturity.
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Two of its prize-winning wines, the Semillon Chardonnay and the Shiraz Cabernet, have also come to town.
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This inky dark Cabernet Sauvignon is that seductive siren.
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Steer clear of excessively tannic reds, such as Cabernet Sauvignons.
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Collins will plant 22 acres of vines this spring, primarily nebbiolo, malbec, petit verdot, merlot, cabernet franc, syrah and barbera among the reds, and vidal, muscat, viognier and sauvignon blanc for whites.
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For the main course we had grilled chipotle-glazed strip sirloin, gingered chickpea fries and calabaza melon slaw, all washed down with a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon.
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The most widely recognized grape variety, Cabernet Sauvignon aka "the King" can illustrate many different aroma's and flavors.
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They have just released a brand new Rosé style, a ‘White Cabernet’ entirely vinted from Cabernet Sauvignon red wine grapes.
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This wine is 94% merlot with 4% cabernet sauvignon and 2% cabernet franc and it was aged for 14 months in French-coopered
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The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve was grapy, un-evolved, and primary when I tasted it.
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Besides a brilliant malbec and cabernet sauvignon, it is also producing one of the few merlots that justifies its price tag.
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You can probably get most people to agree that sweet wines are sweet, and that, in the right circumstances, Gewürztraminer tastes of lychees, Cabernet Sauvignon of blackcurrants, Rioja of vanilla and muscat of grapes.
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Loire Cabernet Francs are at their best in hot vintages like 2003, when their potentially stalky flavours are transformed by sunshine.
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The substantial proportion of Cabernet makes for a slightly more elegant wine, with a delicious combination of spice and blackcurrant fruit.
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A final corollary to this: Young, tannic reds like Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot will always taste more profound if you pour them first into a carafe, pitcher, or decanter.
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Isn't it nice when your guy opens the door for you and slides the Cabernet Sauvignon into your balloon glass?
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A fascinating part of the tour was to taste vintage 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot maturing in two types of French oak, as well as American and Bulgarian.
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So, strictly speaking, the only wines that need to be decanted are those with some sediment - older reds that were deeply colored when they were young: Cabernets and Merlots, for example, or vintage Ports.
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With the delicious mess of crab and pasta, the Centiolis serve spinach or broccolini sautéed with garlic and pour a Brunello or a Cabernet.
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We set out one sunny morning on horseback through the Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes.
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And while the options for red wine might once have ranged from Bordeaux to Burgundy, wine stores now stock Cabernets and Pinot Noirs from a dozen different countries in just as many styles.
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A Cabernet like this - full of simple but delicious boysenberry and cassis flavors - makes a Sunday night roast memorable.
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Merlot is also considered by many to be a cool climate grape along with Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.
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The region now produces premier Chardonnays, Sauvignon Blancs, Merlots and Cabernet Sauvignons, plus trendy varietals such as Pinot Noirs, Syrahs, Zinfandels, Gamays, Nebbiolos and Sangioveses.
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The 2004 FISH ROCK, Australian Cabernet Merlot has an intense crimson hue a blackcurrant fruit nose.
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While I sampled many of the exhibiting wines, my favourite wines on the night were the Hackersley Victor Shiraz Cabernet Merlot 2005 and the Harvey River Billy Goat Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2007.
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The main varietals in Chile are Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc for whites and Cabernet, Merlot and Carmenere for reds.
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It's the 2007 Marchesi de' Frescobaldi Rèmole Toscana IGT, a Sangiovese with some Cabernet Sauvignon blended into it. suggested retail $10; this is a new vintage, but previous vintages can be found for $8-$14.
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This is a grape variety which has excellent resistance to disease and rot, but which makes Cabernet Sauvignon look rather mellow.
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This prediction is based on a series of tastings of the current releases of cabernet and merlot.
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Gérard Marula Le Haut Midi, Touraine, Loire, France 2009 (£17.75, Green & Blue Wines)A so-called natural wine, meaning it was made with minimal intervention in the winery (including no added sulphur), this blend of cabernets franc and sauvignon with grolleau, is joyously alive with singing floral-edged raspberry fruit and a kind of spicy succulence.
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But Gavin Sacks of Cornell pointed out a larger challenge: cabernet franc is not a hedonistic grape compared to consumer favorites like cabernet sauvignon.
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The map looked like something a wildcatter might use—not to drill for oil but to barrel Riesling and Cabernet Franc.
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In a recent blind tasting, judges rated a #15 bottle of American Cabernet Sauvignon over a #250 bottle of 1993 Chteau Petrus.
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At a recent tasting they quaffed a Viognier with a tuna tartare appetizer, a Cabernet Sauvignon with an osso bucco main course, and a dessert wine made from muscat grapes with chocolate mousse.
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In the old days, nobody wanted to hear a word about cabernet francs from the Loire," he said.
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For the main course we had grilled sirloin and gingered chickpea fries, washed down with a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Red varieties take up just l5 per cent of South Africa's vineyards - an astonishing figure for a country that is making its reputation abroad at least as much on its Cabernets, Pinotages and occasional Pinot Noirs as on it Chardonnays.
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But it does not take a genius to decide whether or not the Mayacamas approach to cabernet is successful, as with sufficient bottle age, these magical cabernet sauvignons simply tower over most of their contemporaries.
Mayacamas - one of the greatest California Cabernets by John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
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Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc, Muscadelle, Carignan, Pinot Noir, and Merlot are particularly susceptible to botrytis bunch rot, with Chardonnay moderately susceptible and Cabernet Sauvignon quite tolerant.
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A nice cafe had a half-bottle of, if I recall, Ridge Santa Cruz Mountains Cabernet on their wine list.
Ridge Monte Bello and Paul Draper's forty years of making it | Dr Vino's wine blog
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The 1994 Sonoma County cabernet, a slightly better buy at $ 16, was a tad less well-integrated.
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It's a youthful blend of mainly Tempranillo with a little Cabernet and Merlot.
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I'm making do with a large glass of rather mellow Cabernet Sauvignon and some very yummy soup my flatmate has made out of everything in our fridge.
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The substantial proportion of Cabernet makes for a slightly more elegant wine, with a delicious combination of spice and blackcurrant fruit.
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Produced from a blend of the native Nero d' Avola and Frappato grapes with just a dash of Cabernet Sauvignon, this has deep dark secrets that unfold easily in your glass.
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And growing cabernet is challenging on the east end of Long Island -- even on the warmer North Fork.
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It favours a cool, climate but ripens earlier than other reds such as Cabernet.
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It is home to very luscious and exotic red wines, principally Cabernet Sauvignon.
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The chateau is surrounded by sweeping mountainsides, and its reddish soils and steep manicured vineyards provide brilliant Chardonnay, silky Cabernet and top quality Syrah.
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Made from a classic Aussie mix of firm, blackcurranty Cabernet, plumped up by spicy Shiraz and plummy Merlot.
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A point in case is that Romanian Cabernets and Pinot Noirs are now made clean, distinct and non-overweight.
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Other wines include Merlot, Cabernet and a late harvest Chardonnay.
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And what sauvignon blanc does for white wines, cabernet sauvignon can do for reds.
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The reserve cabernet sauvignon has been aged in French and American oak for 17 months.
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There is no big fruit, just intense, ripe Cabernet Sauvignon and tight old fashioned tannins.
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While one wine aficionado may prefer a Chardonnay to a Cabernet, some art collectors may prefer different interpretations of wine art.
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Wine industry officials in Sonoma, Mendocino and Napa counties say that while cabernet is in a rough patch, merlot may be in dire straits due to market vagaries and celluloid influence.
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They taste the best because the Cabernet grapes ripen late in the season - in September or even October.
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I think the Estancia Cabernet is a great wine and the shop I buy it at sells it for under $10.
Fred Franzia and American wine under $10 | Dr Vino's wine blog
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A highly unusual blend of Barbera with Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon from one of the best estates in northern Italy.
