Cabernet Sauvignon


Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape varieties. It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country among a diverse spectrum of climates from Canada's Okanagan Valley to Lebanon's Beqaa Valley. Cabernet Sauvignon became internationally recognized first through its prominence in Bordeaux wines where it is often blended with Merlot and Cabernet franc. From France, the grape spread across Europe and to the New World where it found new homes in places like California's Napa Valley, Australia's Coonawarra region and Chile's Maipo Valley. For most of the 20th century, it was the world's most widely planted premium red wine grape until it was surpassed by Merlot in the 1990s.

Despite its prominence in the world of wine, the grape is a relatively new variety being the product of a chance crossing between Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc sometime during the 17th century in southwestern France. Its popularity is often attributed to the ease of cultivating, with the grape's thick skins and hardy vines being resistant to rot and frost, as well as the grape's consistency in presenting structure and flavors expressing the typical character ("typicity") of the variety. Familiarity and ease of pronunciation have aided Cabernet Sauvignon wines to be good sellers among consumers, even when from unfamiliar wine regions. Its widespread popularity has also contributed to criticism of the grape as a "colonizer" that takes over wine regions at the expense of native grape varieties.


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Featured Cabernet Sauvignon
Daglia Canyon Winery creates a solid Cabernet Sauvignon that holds some of the familiar, and well awarded nuances of Rutherford region wines.
Floral spring prides themselves in creating hand-crafted wines within a sustainable framework that not only respects the earth but the community as well. Their 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon reflects this richness.
Grown in the legendary soils of Rutherford Bench, this Cabernet Sauvignon displays all the great characteristics know to this area. It is a rich wine with much to offer.
The Cabernet grapes for this Jordan offering are grown in the appellation of Alexander Valley, long time know for its quality soil and climate.
This wine is 100% estate produced. With the concentrated effort, the Kunde Family is able to control and enhance their wines quality and flavor. This 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon does reflect this quality with a good depth of palate.
This 2009 Guenoc Cabernet Sauvignon compared to the 2006 showed a similar rich cherry palate. The 2009 offering, however, added a new element to the palate that was quite enjoyable and balancing to the fruitiness: dandelion.
As their label says, "Justice for All", so goes this offering from Liberated Wine Company. It is a very rich and well rounded wine that could be priced in the $20 - $30 range, especially coming from Napa, but is priced at $10, a price the less than wealthy can afford as well.
I'm not exactly sure who this Obsessed Vintner is, but their immersion of wine making doesn't go unnoticed. This $20 bottle of wine is as good as many $50 or $70 bottles I've had in the past two years. It is smooth with lots of delicious palate elements to discover.
This offering by Raymond Vineyard & Cellar reflects their tradition of making well balanced Cabernet Sauvignon wines.
This Swiss family owned vineyard stresses the quality of varietal that Paso Robles is know for, letting the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes express their character.
For the past 20 years, all of Vine Cliff's vineyards have been managed with sustainable viticulture practices, with a renewed emphasis on natural farming. This attention to details and the environment have yielded some of the finest Cabernet Sauvignons available.
This is a silky smooth Cabernet that has a classic palate with the surprise of delicious spice elements.
For Clos du Val, a Stags Leap District wine is considered by them a signature wine. This 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon offers a very complex wine that garners harmony and balance.
The Stags Leap District is a sub-appellation of Napa Valley. It is renowned for beating Bordeauxs in blind taste test in Paris in the 70's.
The goal of Provenance Vineyards is to produce wines that are like works of art. This 2007 offering lives up to this standard with a delicious palate and smooth mouth feel.
For this selection, Hess Collection utilizes a single vineyard estate to produce this well crafted wine. They do so because they know the soil and climate are perfect for producing great fruit.
Santo Stefano wine is crafted to produce fine yields. They use low-yield vine to produce mature grapes full of flavor. They continue by aging this particular vintage in French and American Oak barrels for 24 months. The result is a rich, structured wine.
Napa's climate is renowned for its long growing season marked by sunny, warm and dry days and followed by cool evenings. These growing conditions are ideal for allowing grapes to ripen slowly and evenly. These conditions along with the winemaker's skills yields a fantastic Cabernet Sauvignon.
In making Bonterra Cabernet Sauvignon, they like to add to the typical layers of flavor by blending in small amounts of other red varietals to add color, texture and a bit of spice.
This offering is intentionally off the beaten path. It is a very young, and playful Cabernet Sauvignon that exhibits both semi-dry and sweet notes. The name "Juenesse" is French for youthful, flavorful and fun.
These Mount Veeder vines reside in steep sloped hills where the grapes grown strong, producing intense and concentrated juices.
Roth Estate's Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are grow on hillside vineyards in Alexander Valley, which produce limited quantities of quality wine.
This offering by Chateau Potelle is a 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot blend. This combination yields a rich, intense wine with good structure throughout.
This Napa Valley Cabernet is a great example of a wine that offers many layers of flavor. Several tasters can experience unique flavors from the same bottle. As well, each taster can have a different palate set from others enjoying the same wine. This is a good wine to share with others and then compare your palate differences and similarities.
This 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon offering from Clos du Val is deliciously complex with good balance.
The soil of Paso Robles is turning out quality wines that are being utilized by wineries such as Familia Nueva. This selection is rich and deep with flavor.
With complex soils, and outstanding climate, this offering from Hawkstone was well on it's way to being great. Combine those elements with the careful handling of this limited release, and you see how this Cabernet Sauvignon reveals many complex and satisfying results.
This wine has a dark purple Bordeaux color reminiscent of the deep recesses in garnet. A dense plum and blackberry nose with lingering hints of blueberry and fresh oak. Nutty flavors with fruit, light tannins, subtle smoke, and oak coat the mouth. It gently says goodbye with a long, smooth, velvety finish. A wine that will last decades!
Merryvale's emphasis is on vineyards known for the excellence of their micro-climate, soils and management. This Cabernet Sauvignon reflects this excellence in it's character and boldness.
A tribute to a diverse landscape of lush, mountainous highlands and arid, desert lowlands, the vines of the Pacific Northwest are unique in character and nature, and deliver this lush fruit wine.
Such an intense yet alluring Cabernet Sauvignon, expressing so much eucalyptus you’ll swear you were outback Down Under getting attacked by killer koalas.
This Cabernet Sauvignon is developed in the well-drained alluvial, volcanic, and uplifted shale/sandstone soils on the benches and hillsides of the celebrated Alexander Valley.
This Cabernet Sauvignon, a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, is an earthy and fruity wine that finds a good balance between the two.
Crane Family Vineyards produces their wine in small quantities which ensures high quality in every bottle. This offering is a treat of a deep and delicious palate of flavors.
Named after Father Junipero Serra, one of California's first planters of vineyards, this Cabernet Sauvignon is a well rounded, delicious wine with many flavors within the palate.
This Cabernet Sauvignon by Hawkstone has a unique combination of flavors and finish that set it apart from most others.
Cabernet Sauvignon thrives at Jack London Vineyards due to the optimum balance of warm morning sun and gentle cooling afternoon breezes, in combination with well-drained, deep, rich soils.
This offering by Louis M. Martini is a simple treat. A Cabernet Sauvignon with a conservative palate that can be fully enjoyed for its fantastic flavors because of strong structure and good tannins.
Madonna Estate Winery

Planted on the rolling hills of the Madonna Vineyard in Carneros, these Cabernet grapes have southern exposure. This southern influence provides maximum sun exposure for peak flavor maturity. The fruit is crushed and fermented in stainless steel tanks. After fermentation the wine is pressed and transferred into small oak barrels. It is then aged for 18 - 24 months. On the palate their Cabernet has a structured mouth feel with soft tannins and herbal undertones. This Cabernet Sauvignon compliments filet mignon, pork tenderloin, and hearty tomato based pasta dishes.
This offering by Black Mountain Vineyard is appropriately named "Fat Cat", for it is a big, fat flavored wine with a high alcohol content.
This Cabernet Sauvignon is barreled for fourteen months. The result is a wine with touches of melted caramel and white pepper with strong tannins and a rich and round finish.
Bonterra Vineyards is proud of their association with the California Certified Organic Growers. This pure organic fruit they produce in combination with French and American Oak barreling results in a wine of exceptional quality.
Coppola creates their Ivory Label Cabernet Sauvignon by blending the grapes from several different appellations to achieve a wine that smooth with rich flavors.
This fruit forward Cabernet Sauvignon can be described as ripe, with lots of red cherry and cassis flavors to titillate your taste buds. It is an overall good wine to pair with grilled meats and spicy tomato sauces because of this strength.
Louis M. Martini, located in Napa Valley, created this Cabernet Sauvignon from varietals of Sonoma County. This smooth drinking wine is well balanced with many layers of flavor.
Planted on the rolling hills of the Madonna Vineyard in Carneros, these Cabernet grapes have southern exposure. This southern influence provides maximum sun exposure for peak flavor maturity. The fruit is crushed and fermented in stainless steel tanks. After fermentation the wine is pressed and transferred into small oak barrels. It is then aged for 18 - 24 months. On the palate their Cabernet has a structured mouth feel with soft tannins and herbal undertones. This Cabernet Sauvignon compliments filet mignon, pork tenderloin, and hearty tomato based pasta dishes.

This blended Cabernet Sauvignon consists of: 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14 % Merlot, 4% Syrah, 2% Petit Verdot, 1% Cabernet Franc. It is a delicious wine that is well rounded yet focused.
This is a good little table wine, to be enjoyed any night with a variety of foods including Mexican foods, beef, pork, lamb and duck.
Made from the juices of grapes from the cool coastal regions of California, this Cabernet Sauvignon has the pedigree to achieve rich flavors and hearty textures, common to wine of this region.
Deep, bold and flavorful describe this Cabernet Sauvignon which can go stride for stride with other cabs in the $15 to $30 range. Yes, this wine is a good value, but it doesn't compromise on the important factors of wine making with it's good balance and smooth finish.
Spiral Wines likes to remind us that like a spiral, life is not a straight line. It is full of new beginnings, with renewed hope for the future. And their wines celebrate this quest for growth and love in life.
This is a delicious Cabernet Sauvignon with an outstanding cedar influence that can be enjoyed with the strongest flavored foods.
Trader Joe's teams up with a respectable Central Coast vineyard to produce an affordable Cabernet Sauvignon. It is a step above an entry level cab for those getting into the wine tasting game, but at the price of an entry level wine.
For this reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, TJ's has paired up with Stagecoach Vineyard and Stonehedge Cellars to produce this mid-priced wine.
Many pundits criticized the 2003 vintage due to uneven ripeness caused by heat spikes close to harvest time, but the Ackerman’s vineyard, located in southern Napa and naturally cooled by the blessed fog from San Francisco Bay, didn’t suffer the temperature extremes of more northern vineyards.
“When offered to taste the Ackerman’s 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon, I expected a worthy follow up to their impressive 2003 bottling. Now having tasted the wine, I can honestly say my expectations were exceeded beyond my wildest dreams.
A smooth, dry, full bodied red wine with a hint of cherry and espresso.
This is a big, unfiltered and bold Cab with plumb, currant and a hint of black pepper.
Cannon River Winery


Semi-dry, soft and round medium body with classic grape aromas of plum, vanilla, chocolate and a hint of strawberry; light American and French oak. Grapes Used: Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Minnesota Foch & Frontenac.
This cab is loaded with fruit (strawberries, plum, cherry and blackberry) all of which is laced together with aromas of anise, vanilla, cedar and a myriad of spices. The tannins are layered into the palate and balanced by the focused tannins that all end with a great finish of all the above.
This vintage marks the second release of our Estate Cabernet and we are extremely pleased with how the vineyard is maturing. The clones and root stocks are bonding well with our specific soils.
The EOS Estate Wineries Cabernet Sauvignon for 2006 is a berry filled full body red that aims to please with bold flavor.
Upon pouring and smelling, aromas of plum come to the front, with blackberry hints. This wine is a higher alcohol experience with a long, smokey finish.
Cape May Winery & Vineyard

Deep aromas of current and black pepper and subtle dark berry flavors.
Ripe and balanced with a great array of cherry, red currants, cola, toasty mocha and vanilla oak spice flavors wrapped around smooth tannins and a nice long lingering finish. This wine is ready to drink now but will easily cellar 3-5+ years.
This full bodied wine has a terrific aroma of berries and spices. The deep ruby red color is attributed to the rich clay soil in the region Elegant flavors of chocolate, blackberry and spices will continue to enhance in flavor with more years of bottle aging.
Dry, full-bodied plush and complex, this Cabernet has layers of currant, black cherry and chocolate, and a fragrant nose of raisin and spice. This wine has an elegant finish and the structure to improve for years to come.
A dry, oak aged classic red wine made from the great red wine grape of Bordeaux.
This Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas of cherry, plum, cinnamon and black pepper. It is a full-bodied wine with a long spicy finish.
This rich, full-bodied wine shows all of the characteristics that a Cabernet Sauvignon should. Cherry, plum, cigar box and spice on the nose, firm tannins and exceptional weight on the palate, all indicators of a truly age-worthy wine.
Cannon River Winery


Semi-dry, soft and round medium body with classic grape aromas of plum, vanilla, chocolate and a hint of strawberry; light American and French oak. Grapes Used: Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Minnesota Foch & Frontenac.
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