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Fantesca Estate & Winery Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2003

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Fantesca Estate & Winery Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (2003)

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Winery:
Fantesca Estate
Varietal:
Cabernet Sauvignon
Region:
USA > California > Napa > Spring Mountain
Type:
Red Wine
Drink Dates:
Drink Now - 2020
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User Tags:  black cherry, closed, mint, strong, transparent, alcohol imbalance, mineral, cellarable, extracted, balance 


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What to Expect

California's Napa Valley has been a source of world-class Cabernet Sauvignon for well over a century. Its warm climate and varied terrain allows for many styles of wine. One thread that runs through almost all the Cabernet based wines from Napa is their lush, ripe full-bodied feel and rich flavors of currant and berry. Wines from the valley floor, particularly around Rutherford, are famed for a dusty quality and those coming from the hillsides surrounding the valley, Mt. Veeder, Diamond Mountain and Howell Mountain for example, tend to be a little leaner with more obvious structural elements.

Winemakers Notes

This wine shows a hint of rich, sweet, fresh herbs such as rosemary, thyme and slight pine. This herb note is subtle and offers a beautiful contrast and complexity to the rich fruit character.

Webelieve it is due to the cooler climate of this appellation compared to other Napa AVAs.

On the palate, the wine is impeccably balanced. It has soft, well integrated tannins that seem perfectly matched
to the level of fruit to allow for 10+ years of aging.

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Snooth User: ryan fujiu
ryan fujiu
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Great wine but will be better in a few years. Its a beautifully balanced and extracted mountain cab.


August 2007

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Snooth User: Philip
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Very mineral, still very strong and tannic. Can clearly age a few more years. Nose is still hot and tight. However underneath a great wine is evolving: black cherries and a touch of mint. Nice structure will allow it to age gracefully.


August 2008

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