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Jones Family Cabernet Sauvignon(2003)
- Winery:
- Jones Family
- Varietal:
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Region:
- USA > California > Napa
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- stone fruits, plum, clean, color descriptors, black currant, berry, structure, resinous, trees, cedar
Jones Family Vineyards was established in 1995 as a family run partnership with the singular focus to produce the finest cabernet from our proprietary vineyards.
Our hillside vineyards are located between St. Helena and Calistoga in the Northern Napa Valley. At an elevation of 600-800 feet above sea level facing almost due south, the rocky soil provides excellent drainage forcing the vine roots to extend deep into the soil for both moisture and nutrients. The stressing of vines and intense sun exposure provides our vines with earlier ripeness than those found on the read more...valley floor.
In 1998 we expanded from our original seven acre vineyard to include a three acre hillside vineyard of cabernet vines and small plantings of cabernet franc and petit verdot. The fruit from these three acres and our existing seven are used for our newest project, The Sisters. The Sisters is a unique blend of Cabernet and Cabernet Franc, the percentages of which change from vintage to vintage.
The combination of our unique hillside location, elevation and sun exposure creates wonderful fruit that our vineyard management team and winemaker craft into our special wines.
Winemaker Notes:
"Deep garnet color leads you to fully ripe, very concentrated and deep aroma of black cherry, berry, spiciness and perfume. A big wine stuffed full of everything nice - a great richness, gobs of mountainside fruit, beautiful structure, integrated oak and tannin and amazing length. This is a wine built for the long-haul. The layers of flavors here range from intense berry to mineral. A very interesting, elegant wine to enjoy as the layers unfold." Heidi P. Barrett
Winemaker, Jones Family Vineyards
Reviews: Robert Parker, Wine Advocate - Rating 90
Tasting Notes:
The saturated dark plum/ruby/purple-tinged 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon offers hints of garrigue, licorice, smoke, plums, blueberries and black currants in its medium-bodied personality. More austere than the 2002, but nicely structured, rich and impressively pure with moderately high, but sweet tannin, it will benefit from 1 - 3 years of bottle age. Consume it over the following 8 - 10 years.
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Our hillside vineyards are located between St. Helena and Calistoga in the Northern Napa Valley. At an elevation of 600-800 feet above sea level facing almost due south, the rocky soil provides excellent drainage forcing the vine roots to extend deep into the soil for both moisture and nutrients. The stressing of vines and intense sun exposure provides our vines with earlier ripeness than those found on the read more...valley floor.
In 1998 we expanded from our original seven acre vineyard to include a three acre hillside vineyard of cabernet vines and small plantings of cabernet franc and petit verdot. The fruit from these three acres and our existing seven are used for our newest project, The Sisters. The Sisters is a unique blend of Cabernet and Cabernet Franc, the percentages of which change from vintage to vintage.
The combination of our unique hillside location, elevation and sun exposure creates wonderful fruit that our vineyard management team and winemaker craft into our special wines.
Winemaker Notes:
"Deep garnet color leads you to fully ripe, very concentrated and deep aroma of black cherry, berry, spiciness and perfume. A big wine stuffed full of everything nice - a great richness, gobs of mountainside fruit, beautiful structure, integrated oak and tannin and amazing length. This is a wine built for the long-haul. The layers of flavors here range from intense berry to mineral. A very interesting, elegant wine to enjoy as the layers unfold." Heidi P. Barrett
Winemaker, Jones Family Vineyards
Reviews: Robert Parker, Wine Advocate - Rating 90
Tasting Notes:
The saturated dark plum/ruby/purple-tinged 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon offers hints of garrigue, licorice, smoke, plums, blueberries and black currants in its medium-bodied personality. More austere than the 2002, but nicely structured, rich and impressively pure with moderately high, but sweet tannin, it will benefit from 1 - 3 years of bottle age. Consume it over the following 8 - 10 years.
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