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  • Country ranking ?

    492
  • Producer ranking ?

    9
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    roast lamb served medium-rare to well-done

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Wine Information

We experienced moderately high temperatures in 2012 complimented by cool nights and no significant weather events, resulting in a slow and smooth ripening season. Harvest completed on October 17th after a long and slow maturation period allowing our fruit to reach definition and balance.

The 2012 is our third vintage Cabernet Sauvignon from Hyde Vineyard.  As with all of HdV's wines, this 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon show cases the site and vint...

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Origin

Napa, Napa Valley

Soil

Shallow loam over clay hardpan

Vineyard size

0.5 acre

Grapes

100% Cabernet Sauvignon

Age of vines

12 years

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Good

Ageing

  • in oak 100% for 1 years and 8 months

When bottled

October 17, 2012

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None

Inside Information

The bouquet is deep and complex with graphite and dark berries, coffee bean, fine maduro cigars, rose bushes and earth tones. Intense and soft, broadening with great freshness and brightness, our 2012 Cabernet shows a superb tenacity of flavor in the mouth, with absolutely no excess. It has a marked spiciness, great scope and harmony. Delicious now displaying its firm tannic structure, this wine is built for aging the next couple decades.

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