This is a killer Cabernet Sauvignon with dazzling fruit levels and loads of loamy soil notes intermixed with black raspberry, blueberry and blackcurrant. This wine and its siblings will do a lot to establish Dry Creek as more than another viticulture area better known for Zinfandel than Cabernet Sauvignon. "There are 645 cases of the 100% Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Jersey Boys Vineyard (named after the fact that the Broadway Musical “Jersey Boys” was brought to the stage and screen by the owner of Kinsella). It was a textbook growing season, every winemaker’s dream.”Īny vegetable or meat in the grill. Crop yields were down a bit from 2013, but the quality was magnificent. We began the year with warm spring conditions that gave way to an early budbreak and the consistent, dry weather afforded an optimal fruit set of small berries with incredible concentration. “While it was the third consecutive year marked by limited rainfall, the 2014 vintage offered a perfectly temperate growing season characterized by long, moderate days and cool, clear nights. Jersey Boys is a six-acre vineyard that was replanted in 2008 with four different clones of Cabernet Sauvignon, handpicked by winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown. Jersey Boys Vineyard (Kevin Kinsella is the largest individual investor in the hit Broadway show "Jersey Boys") Milk chocolate, crème de cassis and tobacco give this massive wine the depth you come to expect with Napa cabs, but it is all Sonoma County, all from our magnificent little private valley which sees sun all day! We buy no fruit we sell no fruit. Loads of loamy soil notes followed by blue and black fruits give this cabernet massive depth and beautiful integrated tannins. Pure 100% cabernet Sauvignon, this vineyard continually astonishes. Antonio Galloni's Vinous (December 2016), 91 pts The effects of the drought are felt in the wine's slightly roasted profile. Superripe black cherry, plum, chocolate and licorice add to an impression of flamboyance that sits on the edge of being too much. "The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Casey's Lakeview Vineyard is the most overt of these wines. Ageing in French oak barrels (85% new) for 20 months, then 12 months in bottle prior to release. Organic farming methods are used to produce this Cabernet Sauvignon Casey's Lakeview vineyard.
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Excellent drainage from the rocky and chalky soils plus plenty of sunlight throughout the day produces wines of bold character with mouth filling flavors. Lakeview Vineyard is the winery’s mid-block vineyard planted to a combination of clone 6 & 337 Cabernet Sauvignon on 101-14 rootstock. It is deep, full-bodied, and again, a masculine style of wine that needs at least 4-5 years of cellaring and should keep for 25 or more years. The Cabernet Sauvignon Casey’s Lakeview is similarly inky bluish/purple to the rim. Tasting like blood, this wine is dense and rich with lots of chocolate, espresso, earth and spice. Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Issue #228, December 2016), 90 pts Ripe, medium to full-bodied and luscious, it is a classic to drink over the next 15 or more years. The are some notes of unsmoked cigar and licorice as well. This opaque purple-colored wine has plenty of mulberry and blackcurrant fruit along with hints of blackberries, camphor and incense.
"The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon is 100% Cabernet aged 20 months in 86% new French oak, with the typical suspects in terms of cooperage – Darnajou, Taransaud, and Remond.
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