Tuesday, June 25, 2013

May 17, 2013 – Wine: 2009 Whitehall Lane Cabernet Sauvignon

Remember Fanta grape soda?  I’m not saying that this wine tastes like artificially flavored grape soda.  In fact, this winery has been producing wines at a good price-quality point for years.  Their Napa Valley Merlot is particularly good and can impress for under $24 a full bottle.  But this Cabernet has a surprising element to its fruit flavors that pleasantly reminded me of the grape flavors in Fanta Soda.  These days it is rare to read a wine review that suggests the flavor profile of a given wine might actually reflect grapes, but this one does.  I also noted flavors of leather, dark chocolate and slight minerals.  The wine is still young and needs time to integrate, but is showing an interesting palette today.

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