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Country ranking ?
298
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Producer ranking ?
16
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Decanting time
2h
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When to drink
Now-2030
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Food Pairing
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Food Pairing
Entrecôte grillée, Roasted Beets with Goat Cheese
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Appellation: Darioush estate vineyards in Mt. Veeder, Oak Knoll, Napa Valley
Cooperage: Aged 22 months in 85% new Chateau Traditional French oak barrels
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Tasting note
color
Deep and Ruby red
ending
Long
flavors
Blackcurrant, Vanilla, Toasty, Smoky and Blackberry
nose
Intense
recommend
Yes
taste
Low in Acidity, Full-bodied, Harmonious, Rich, Ripe and Sweet
Written Notes
Deep, ruby colour. Intense smoky nose with jammed cassis and spirity tones. Full-bodied, broad and rich mouthfeel. Plentiful of ripe black fruit. Soft tannins and mellow acidity. Harmonious palate with long toasty finish combined with sweet vanilla flavour.
’ve been following Darioush since their inaugural vintage. This cabernet may well be the finest yet produced from this so promising winery. The 2007 vintage is a blend of 85 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, seven percent Merlot, five percent Cabernet Franc and only three percent Malbec, as always only estate grown fruit and from two sites: the main source is the vineyards in Oak Knoll close to the winery, the rest comes from Mount Veeder. I don’t know for sure, and I might be wrong, but it seems like the share from Mount Veeder is more significant in this vintage compared to most of the previous ones. At least, this is what the palate tells me. The intense, dark and for the vintage so typical ripe and rich but still so elegant fruit is perfectly wrapped around a very serious structure of huge but ripe tannins, and there are plenty of mineral qualities from the well drained volcanic soil up on Mount Veeder. Tasted it directly from the bottle, it was tannic and closed and to be honest not so easy to enjoy. Leaving it in the decanter for another hour it started to open up, a bit. So I left it for another hour, and then another hour, and then it blossomed in my Riedel glass. It’s recommended to do either so, or to keep the bottles in your cellar for a few more years. Although I just love the wine today, I’d rather keep it a few more years to not only soften the tannins, but also see the rising of the first secondary aromas. I can’t wait for that day to come!
From being so closed and "hard to see the greatness in it" for a few hours, I later just loved every sniff and sip of the wine. Still dense, firm and marked by its huge structure, it’s a very fine wine indeed – it just need some time. You will find some sweet cassis and blueberry notes on the nose and on the palate, in that sense the wine is ripe and rich, but the structure and lingering aftertaste, in which complex notes of lead pencil shows up, is serious, very serious.
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Drinking temperature
17-18C
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