Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2011

Corison Winery, trade sheet (hentet 17. okt. 2026): 2011 Corison Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Vintage-note (producentens tekst, engelsk): My 25th vintage, a quarter century! Somehow it seems fitting that the 2011 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon hails from one of the most challenging, but ultimately rewarding vintages of my winemaking career. Taking long and cool out to the limit, 2011 broke records for cool, closing with a big dose of rain. Luckily, seasons like this play handily into my style, favoring an elegant and refined expression of Cabernet Sauvignon. My well-drained, gravelly benchland sites promote early ripening. The 2011 is certainly a candidate for one of my favorite vintages ever, displaying the entire range of Cabernet fruit flavors from black cherry and blueberry through plum, cassis and blackberry with cameos played by black raspberry and lingonberry, shored up by bracing natural acidity and firm and grippy, but velvety, tannins. A wonderful mineral streak and forest-floor earthiness run up the middle and a precocious violet perfume enhances the aromas. Grace notes include cocoa, espresso and savory sage, thyme, allspice and coriander. It feels supple and textural in the mouth - luscious. This calls for lamb!