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2021 Private Reserve, Cabernet Sauvignon, Oak Knoll District, Napa Valley

Pair this wine with:
Beef Vegetables

Category: Cabernet Sauvignon

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 14.2%
89 Points
Silver Medal
Highly Recommended
$17

Member’s Mark
2021 Private Reserve, Cabernet Sauvignon, Oak Knoll District, Napa Valley

Pair this wine with:
Beef Vegetables

Category: Cabernet Sauvignon

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 14.2%
Garnet black color. Aromas and flavors of smoky leather, blackberry, and black olive with a velvety, lively, dry medium-to-full body and a warming, refreshing, medium-long finish that shows notes of peppered jerky, mocha, blackberry, and black currant with drying, woody tannins and light oak flavor. Dark and concentrated fruit backed with some subtle herbaceous notes, this is a great choice to bring to a friend’s dinner party.

Tasting Info

Wine Glass Style: New World
Aroma Aroma: smoky leather, blackberry, and black olive
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of peppered jerky, mocha, blackberry, and black currant
Sweetness Sweetness: Dry
Enjoy Enjoy: Now-3 years on its own and with food
Recipes Pairing: Pot Roast, Steak & Potatoes, Beef Stew
Bottom Line Bottom Line: Dark and concentrated fruit backed with some subtle herbaceous notes, this is a great choice to bring to a friend's dinner party.

The Producer

Sam’s Club

The Producer
2101 SE Simple Savings Drive
Bentonville, AR 72716
USA

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Cabernet Sauvignon

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Serve in a Cabernet Wine Glass
Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety that is the source of some of the world’s most celebrated and longest-lived reds. Grown in many countries, it is most famous in Bordeaux, where it is the principal grape in red Bordeaux as well as in California – especially Napa Valley- where it is labeled by its varietal name.

Cabernet Sauvignon has aromas and flavors of black currant, cassis, black cherry and sometimes plum (in warmer regions or vintages). Quite rich on the palate, the variety is very tannic, giving its wines a bitter edge in their youth, but also providing the wines with great aging potential, with top flight examples drinking well for as long as four or five decades. Given their richness and flavor profile, wines made from Cabernet Sauvignon need to be paired with rich red meats, such as steaks and roasts as well as game.

Besides France and California, other countries with warm growing regions also excel with Cabernet Sauvignon. These include the Maipo and Colchagua Valleys in Chile as well as the Bolgheri district, situated on the coast of Tuscany.