Winery - Janzen
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Tons of blackberry, black cherry and cassis fruit in this wine. Really impresses for sheer ripeness and varietal purity. Lots of sweet, smoky oak adds to the volume. For all the richness, it’s bone dry, with firm tannins. Not one for the cellar, so drink up now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Ultra-rich, with chocolate-infused dark berry flavors, splashed with cassis and accented with smoky new oak. Although the wine, which is 100% Cabernet, is totally dry, it’s soft, which accentuates the alcohol, making it taste a bit hot and unbalanced.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There are only a few drops of Syrah in this Cab, but you can taste them in the violets, cherries and pepper that complicate the cassis flavors. It’s a good wine, although a little heavy and soft.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Very dense, very rich, and really too thick in primary fruit flavors to enjoy now. Almost like a blackberry, cassis and chocolate-filled pastry, with the oaky overlay playing the role of sweet, smoky crust, and the alcohol providing heat. Soft, too. Not particularly elegant now, but might age, if you want to roll the dice on this pricey 100% Cab.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A beautiful, classy Cab, marked by smoky new oak and very ripe blackberry and cassis flavors, with a streak of minerals. The vineyard is in the Vaca Mountains, in the valley’s far east. You can taste the sunshine in the wonderful fruitiness, and the tannins are extraordinarily refined, but they’re also aggressive. Fine now, with a long decant, but should develop bottle complexity over many years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Too ripe and too oaky, and both attributes reinforce each other. The blackberry and currant fruit approaches Port in raisiny ripeness, while the oak accentuates the tannic sweetness. Clumsy now, but sometimes these wines improve in the long run. Try holding until after 2013.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Soft, overripe and simple, with chocolate-covered raisin, cassis and caramelized oak flavors. It’s delicious, in the modern style of ripe extraction, but lacks structure and dryness.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This comes from Bacio Divino, which has been crafting wines under that label for some years. The consulting winemaker was the veteran Nils Venge. The wine is dry, full-bodied and very ripe, showing classic Napa cassis flavors wrapped into superfine tannins. As good as it is, one wonders what sets it apart from all the rest.
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