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What We’re Drinking – Notre Vin Cabernet Sauvignon

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Color is a deep ruby, bordering on red-black. The nose is rich with blackberry, black currant, and cigar box. Black currant and blackberry lead on the palate, with floral undertones and structured tannins. Tobacco appears on the mid-palate. Fruit takes the lead in this restrained, refined wine. Drink with rack

Judgment of Napa: Five Cabernets

Simon J Woolf
Feature Stories
3 min read
A Brit writing on Napa Cabernets, for an American wine magazine – isn't that a bit bloody minded? A tad “coals to Newcastle”, if you will? Stay with me, it might get interesting. California's Napa Valley has nothing left to prove – the 1976 and 2006 Judgments of Paris are

2008 Cade Cabernet Sauvignon

David Honig
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Great Napa vineyards? Check! Low yield? Check! Dry hot summer and fall? Check! Nearly two years in 80% new French oak? Check! More than 90 points in the big magazines? Check! Okay everybody, it's Cult Wine Time! Let's sell this stuff for $175 a bottle! That was a great plan in 2008, when the