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Darioush Cabernet Sauvignon - $95.99

Wine Details

Vintage: 2008
Price: $95.99
Producer: Darioush
Region: Napa Valley
Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
Container Size: 750 ML
Flavors:
  • Award Winning
  • Red Wine
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Product Description

  • Enticing aromas of vanilla bean, blackberry and crème de cassis introduce this bold, yet harmonious wine. A rich and well-focused palate is endowed with layered flavors of wild black cherry, plum and espresso. An elegant and generous finish is accented by delicate hints of cinnamon, nutmeg and spice box.

Expert Ratings

Ratings   Vintage Source Flavors
CGCW - 95 Details: Darioush Khaledi has proven to be the master of the rich, fleshy, full-bodied style, and once again, his winery delivers a bottling with a virtually unrivalled combination of intensity, drama and hedonistic pleasure. In its youth, the wine is at once both open and brooding, and its invitingly sensual aromas and flavors, while seeming to ask for early enjoyment, are far from fully developed. One can easily partner this lush wine with juicy filet mignons or a standing rib roast, but putting it in the cellar for half a decade or more seems the better idea. 2004 CGCW
CGCW - 92 Details: There is so much rich oak, chocolate and dense, ripe cherry and currant fruit at work in this broad and enveloping Cabernet that it almost hides the fact that the wine is a bit raw-boned in build and buttressed by plenty of essential varietal tannins. If turning to toughness on the latter palate, it in no way relinquishes its considerable fruit, and while those who do not mind putting up with gruff astringency might find satisfaction now, the rest of us will choose to put it away for the half-dozen years that it so clearly deserves. 2003 CGCW chocolate, currant, oak, ripe cherry
CGCW - 91 Details: There is no want of intensity or sheer volume here, and at every point this extravagantly oaked opus leads with deep and well-formed curranty fruit. It is a broad-shouldered wine as Cabernet of this ripeness is wont to be, but it is not unduly astringent and its ample alcohols are well-buffered by abundant fruit extracts. Its rich and outgoing style is bound to tempt some into putting it on the table early, but we would like to see it left to age for a few more years. 2002 CGCW
CGCW - 88 Details: Ripe and outgoing in fruit with plenty of briary Cabernet spice and a full complement of integral oak, this nicely balanced and nominally tannic wine is beginning to show some softening at the edges. It is supple to start and a touch firm at the finish, and it can grow for three to five years. 2001 CGCW oak, spice
WineAndSpirits - 92 Details: Drawn from Atlas Peak and Mt. Veeder fruit, this melds the intensity of earthy, fully ripe, mountain-grown tannin with bright red fruit concentration in the end. Full of black chocolate richness up front, then cherry and cassis flavors in a lasting finish, this feels smooth and classical in its structure. It will only gain complexity with age. 2001 WineAndSpirits cassis, cherry, chocolate, earthy
CGCW - 91 Details: Well-focused curranty fruit sits at the heart of the toasty, lightly loamy aromas of this young Cabernet, and the wine follows with similarly concentrated and attractive flavors of cassis, oak and dark soil spice. Built with a backbone of integrated tannins and balanced from front to back, it displays good polish even in its youth, and it strikes us as an outstanding candidate for drinking up in the next five to seven years rather than squirreling it away for a decade or more of aging. 2000 CGCW cassis, oak, spice
WineSpectator - 94 Details: Wonderfully rich, intense and concentrated Cabernet, with layers of tightly focused currant, black cherry, anise, sage and cedary oak. Given all its flavor and richness, there's a sense of elegance and finesse. Well-integrated tannins provide an excellent balance to the rich flavors. Best from 2003 through 2012. 2,443 cases made. –JL 1999 WineSpectator anise, black cherry, currant, oak, sage
CGCW - 87 Details: Sometimes wines of size and body are not as well-filled in flavor as they are simply big and blocky, and this chunky youngster is dangerously close to falling within that camp. Happily, it shows just enough fruit to accompany its lavish and wholly gorgeous oak, and, if a little hot and short on fruity followthrough, it has substance enough to come close enough to filling its very ample and intensely oaky frame. 1999 CGCW oak

Food Pairings

Category Pairing
Red Meat Beef, Grilled Filet Mignon, Grilled Beef, Roast Beef

Awards and Accolades

  Name Vintage
Award Winner Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2011 2007

Wine Terms

Name Value
Cabernet Sauvignon (cab er nay saw vee nyon)—This highly adaptable grape grows almost anywhere it is relatively warm, but the best wines come from the Burgundy region of France (where it is a noble variety), California, and Australia. It became famous through the red wines of the Médoc district of Bordeaux and is now grown in Washington, southern France, Italy, Australia, South Africa, Chile, and Argentina. Cabernet Sauvignon grapes make wines that are high in tannin and medium- to full-bodied. Usually identified as having black currant or cassis flavors, the grape can also possess vegetal tones when the grapes are less than ideally ripe. The best wines are rich and firm with great depth, and are often aged for fifteen years or more. Because it is highly tannic, Cabernet Sauvignon is often blended with other less-tannic grapes such as Merlot.
Napa This tiny strip of land just north of San Francisco is home to America’s most prestigious wineries. Its climate is ideal for viticulture. Ironically, it was deemed too ideal for some vintners, who have moved their vineyards from the valley’s flat plain to the hills in the east and west, adhering to the idea that grapes that struggle to grow yield better wine. The climate, soil, and individual wineries are enormously varied, so it’s impossible to identify a singular trait of Napa wines. In addition, nearly every noble grape is grown here, although Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon are the primary grapes. In the past, Napa’s wines have alternated between extremely fruity and fat to lean and subtle. Today the best Napa wines have achieved a balance between these extremes. Many are made to be drunk young and have abundant ripe fruit; others can be initially hard and tannic, but soften over four or five years to perfumed, cedary fruit. White Napa wines are excellent with fresh-grilled fish and chicken, but can also cope with more spicy and creamy flavors. Many Napa reds will overwhelm delicate cuisine, but rich red meat and cheeses do make good companions.
United States Wineries exist in all fifty states, but the most predominant (and best) wine comes from Northern California, Oregon, and Washington State, with New York gaining a foothold in the industry. American wines make up about 75% of all wine sales in the US. The appellation system uses the term AVA (American Viticultural Area) to determine where wines were produced, but grape varieties can be planted anywhere in the country. American wineries generally use varietal labeling, and government regulations require that the variety on the label must make up at least 75% of the blend (in Oregon it’s 90%). The words reserve, special selection, private reserve, classic, and so on have no legal definition in the US. Some wineries use these terms to indicate their better wines; others use the words as a marketing tool to move lower quality wines off the shelf.
California California produces the majority of wine made in the United States. Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel and Pinot Noir dominate the wine production in California, but many other varietials thrive in the California climate. Many fine wines are produced in California using Mediterranean grapes.
Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Over the past few decades, the Napa Valley has become synonymous with award winning Cabernet Sauvignon. Originating from the Bordeaux region in France, Cabernet Sauvignon is truly wine's ambassador to the world. Now in the annals of wine history, this varietal put the Napa Valley on the map. There is a select set of conditions, often enjoyed in Napa, which makes for world class examples of the grape. These include long, sunny days in warm climates, in conjunction with porous, well draining soils.
Napa County Napa County is located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. At the north end of Napa County is the Bay Area's second tallest peak Mount Saint Helena, and to the far south of Napa County lays the section of the Napa Valley that bleeds into Carneros. When the first white settlers arrived in the early 1830s, there were six tribes in the valley speaking different dialects and they were often at war with each other. The Mayacomos tribe lived in the area where Calistoga was founded. Napa County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. Napa Valley is widely considered one of the top wine regions in California and all of the United States. By the end of the nineteenth century there were more than one hundred and forty wineries in the area. Today Napa Valley features more than two hundred wineries and grows many different grape varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Zinfandel. The region is visited by as many as five million people each year, making it the second to Disneyland as the most popular tourist destination in California.

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