cabernet

The 1991 Mayacamas cabernet is really beginning to blossom at sixteen years of age and offers up another very Graves-like personality on both the nose and palate.

Mayacamas - one of the greatest California Cabernets by John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

But it does not take a genius to decide whether or not the Mayacamas approach to cabernet is successful, as with sufficient bottle age, these magical cabernet sauvignons simply tower over most of their contemporaries.

Mayacamas - one of the greatest California Cabernets by John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

As Bob Travers ventures to say, “all that talk of physiological ripeness these days with cabernet is simply an excuse to try and get huge crop loads to ripen sufficiently, as cabernet is always going to taste really green at those yields unless you let the grapes hang out there until they are nearly raisins.”

Mayacamas - one of the greatest California Cabernets by John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

And growing cabernet is challenging on the east end of Long Island -- even on the warmer North Fork.

Q&A 2009

And growing cabernet is challenging on the east end of Long Island -- even on the warmer North Fork.

The New York Cork Report: 2007

Last year I stopped for dinner at Chico's famous restaurant, where I had some fine cabernet from the extensive wine list and a steak dinner so huge that I couldn't finish it.

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Wine industry officials in Sonoma, Mendocino and Napa counties say that while cabernet is in a rough patch, merlot may be in dire straits due to market vagaries and celluloid influence.

Merlot Market Shrinking | Impact Lab 2006

Second label cabernet sauvignons deliver good value for low cost

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"In the old days, nobody wanted to hear a word about cabernet francs from the Loire," he said.

NYT > Home Page By ERIC ASIMOV 2011

For $15, this is the kind of cabernet franc that I'd make my house wine.

Tasting Notes 2009