Girard Napa Red 1999
- Winery:
- Girard Winery
- Varietals:
- Cabernet Sauvignon , Cabernet Franc , Merlot
- Region:
- USA > California > Napa
- Type:
- Red Wine
- Drink Dates:
- Drink Now - 2014
- UPC:
- 008176393100
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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
Our grapes were hand sorted and gently crushed. We used native yeast for fermentation and the wine underwent malolactic fermentation in the barrel. Aged 24 months in French oak and then bottled unfined and unfiltered.
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Richly textured, our Cabernet blend is bursting with blackberry, currant and black cherry flavors followed by cinnamon and licorice overtones. The Cabernet Franc presence is noted with a lingering blueberry flavor supported with hints of creamy oak. This wine is very much like the best of the 97 vintage with incredibly soft tannins and a silky smooth middle and finish that is almost chocolate like in texture. The blend consists of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Cabernet Franc and 18% Merlot with all of the fruit coming from the Napa Valley. We took our grapes primarily from Oakville using a combination read more...
Source: Girard Winery
93 Points - Robert Whitley, Copley News Service - ôThough this red meritage blend is but 50 percent cabernet sauvignon, it is anything but meek. The '99 Girard offers up a heaping serving of good old Napa Valley depth and concentration, the characteristics that have made this 30-mile strip of Northern California agriculture America's mecca of red wine. It's rich and full-bodied, loaded with dark fruit complexities and nuances of anise and cinnamon. One of the better Napa reds for the money. Cab Franc and Merlot complete the blend.ö
May 2009
Source: Girard Winery
90 Points Highly Recommended - Wine & Spirits Magazine - Big and rich right in the middle, then closed off from view, this young wine hasn't extended the length of its flavor yet. But there's already plenty of depth to the cherry liqueur scents, the plush and gentle texture, the green herb edges. It all points to a wine that should grow more elegant, lengthening over the next ten years.
May 2009
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