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Staglin Family Vineyard, Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
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Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is another wine in this range that shows the natural breadth and dimension of the year. Ample, powerful and broad, with real depth, the 2016 has a lot to offer. The 2016 hasn't moved much over the last year, so readers will have to be patient. New leather, spice, menthol and sweet dark cherry all build in a rich, textured Cabernet.
Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is a powerful, fleshy wine. Just bottled about two months before this tasting, the 2016 shows a good deal of textural depth and richness. Today, the new oak is a bit dominant, but time in bottle should help take care of at least some of that. Super-ripe dark cherry, plum, menthol, spice and new French oak are very nicely delineated. The 2016 is very primary at this stage, but the Staglin Cabernets really only start drinking well around age 7-8 give or take. I expect that will be the case here as well.
Reviewed by: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate bursts out of the glass with beautiful black cherry compote, warm cassis and freshly crushed blackberries scents plus touches of chargrill, violets, dark chocolate and pencil shavings and a waft of English lavender. Full-bodied, the palate features great intensity combined with fantastic freshness, textured by soft, finely grained tannins and lifted by the most gorgeous floral perfume, finishing long and layered. Beautiful wine.
Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate is a powerful, fleshy wine. Just bottled about two months before this tasting, the 2016 shows a good deal of textural depth and richness. Today, the new oak is a bit dominant, but time in bottle should help take care of at least some of that. Super-ripe dark cherry, plum, menthol, spice and new French oak are very nicely delineated. The 2016 is very primary at this stage, but the Staglin Cabernets really only start drinking well around age 7-8 give or take. I expect that will be the case here as well.
About the Producer
Staglin Family Vineyard is a Californian wine producer located in Rutherford, Napa Valley. It is most famous for its premium wines produced from Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Sangiovese. The 20-hectare (50-acre) vineyard passed through many different hands before the Staglin family became the proprietors in 1985 – including a Texan gold and oil tycoon on the run from the law in his home state, as well as the more respectable Beaulieu Vineyard. Located at the base of Mount St. John, the estate vineyard lies on an alluvial fan of volcanic soils. These soils, when combined with the area's unique mesoclimate, provides ideal growing conditions for vines with the first vineyard established as far back as the mid 1860s. The flagship Staglin Family Vineyard range includes Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon, the latter commonly blended with small portions of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Other wine ranges in the collection include the Salus range with a Bordeaux Blend amoungst other varietal wines. Salus was named after the Roman goddess of health and wellbeing with profits for the Salus range contributed to the funding of mental health research.
