Cardinale 2014

Name: Cardinale 2014
Brand: World Top Wines
SKU: 784794001527
Price: 249.73 EUR
Availability: InStock

Reference 784794001527

€249.73

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Cardinale 2014

Cardinale 2014 is a prestigious wine produced in the Napa Valley region by Cardinale Estate, renowned for its philosophy of creating a single wine per harvest, always focusing on Cabernet Sauvignon. This harvest was marked by stable, dry weather, which resulted in highly concentrated, ripe and balanced grapes, reflected in a powerful and refined wine.

Vinification: Manual and selective harvesting. Fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless-steel tanks. Prolonged maceration to intensify structure and complexity. Malolactic fermentation in new French oak barrels (aged 20 to 22 months) for harmonious integration between fruit, wood and tannins. The best batches are selected for the final blend, which is aged in the bottle before release, ensuring elegance, depth and ageing potential.

Tasting Notes: It is polished, pure and elegant, even at this early stage of its bottled life. The fruit grown on Veeder Peak, Mount Veeder, was the basis for the 2013 Cardinale, giving it a robust structure and powerful fruit concentration. In contrast, the Spring Mountain district (Yverdon, Wurtele and Spring Mountain Vineyard) proved strong during the blending of the 2014 Cardinale and is the foundation to which Veeder Peak and sites in Howell Mountain, Diamond Mountain and other sub-appellations added complexity.

Grape Varieties: 88% Cabernet Sauvignon and 12% Merlot

Winemaker: Christopher Carpenter

Wine Type: Red Wine
Format: 0,75L
Vintage: 2014
Country: USA
Region: California
The highest scoring: Robert Parker 97 to 99 Points
Robert Parker: 98
Jancis Robinson: 17

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A magnificent wine made the by the brilliant winemaker Chris Carpenter, who also works for the Kendall-Jackson empire at Lakoya and a handful of other estates, this blend of 88% Cabernet Sauvignon and 12% Merlot is sourced from multiple vineyards owned by the Jacksons, from Veeder Peak to Spring Mountain to Howell Mountain. In 2014, it reminded me of a great vintage of Pontet-Canet from Pauillac, but slightly bigger than life. The inky purple color, the stunning nose of cedar wood, unsmoked cigar tobacco, graphite, crème de cassis and subtle new oak is followed by a multi-layered, profoundly concentrated, large-scaled wine with sensational levels of blackcurrant fruit moving toward blackberries. A wine of great intensity, silky tannins and adequate acidity, this is clearly one of the great, great wines of the vintage, and another tour de force in winemaking from Carpenter. It is a 15- to 20- year wine, but the window for drinking its is probably that big as well.

Deep crimson. Really pretty luscious on the nose but not over the top – apart from the price! A fine-grained, very slightly sandy texture keeps it interesting. Although it’s not short of alcohol, it’s not sweet. Luscious but I think I would understand it better if I knew exactly where the fruit came from. Clean, bracing and far from heavy.

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