2008 ケイマス スペシャル・セレクション カベルネ･ソーヴィニヨン
2008 ケイマス スペシャル・セレクション カベルネ･ソーヴィニヨン
| 2008 Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley |
いわずと知れたナパのスーパークラシック・カベルネ･ソーヴィニヨン
ジェームズ・サックリング(James Suckling) 98ポイント
"Caymus Vineyards Special Selection is a reference point for Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. According to Chuck Wagner, the patriarch of Caymus Vineyards, it is a blend of the best Cabernet lots in a given year. Until the 2008 vintage, Caymus Vineyard SS had been 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, but Chuck is now adding a small percentage of Merlot to soften the wine and make it a little more approachable when young. I tasted the three most recent vintages of Caymus Vineyards SS and I found them all opulent and almost exotic in character. The 2008 was the most exciting with an intense and powerful finish of wild fruits and velvety tannins."
ロバート・パーカーのワイン・アドボケイト (ロバート・パーカー) 94 ポイント
"The 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Special Selection is the first example of this cuvee to include Merlot (about 14%) in the blend. The Merlot component has given the wine a cocoa/chocolate nuance to its black currant, licorice-infused fruit. The tannins are velvety soft and the wine is beautifully textured and full-bodied. It is ideal for drinking now and over the next 15 years."
(Wine Advocate #192 Dec 2010 Drink: 2010 - 2025)
ワイン・スペクテーター 94ポイント
"Beautifully crafted, rich, intense and powerful, yet supple, graceful and polished, offering a generous core of spicy blackberry, black licorice, wild berry and light cedary notes. Full-bodied and expressive, this is both approachable now and sure to improve for several years. Drink now through 2020."
(Issue: Apr 30, 2011)
インターナショナル・ワイン・セラー 93 ポイント (Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar)
"Bright, full medium ruby. Black raspberry, bitter chocolate and licorice on the nose. Lush, sweet, concentrated and mouthfilling; not nearly as porty as the basic cabernet, with seamless dark fruit flavors showing more energy and depth than the regular bottling. The finish is smoothly tannic, chocolatey and very long. Like a liquid confection, even at this early stage: this really saturates the mouth. This is so sexy now that it's hard not to wonder whether the wine's potential flavor complexity has been compromised by its uncanny early sweetness. But it certainly has the stuffing to age. "
| ワイン情報 | |
| 生産年(ヴィンテージ) | 2008 |
| 生産国 | アメリカ合衆国 |
| 生産領域 | カリフォルニア |
| アペレーション/地区 | ナパ・バレー |
| ボトルサイズ | 750ml |
| ワイン レビュー | |
| ワイン評価スコアの レンジ | 96 - 100 |
| ロバート・パーカーのワイン・アドヴォケート | 94 |
| ワイン･スペクテーター | 94 |
| その他のレビュー | 98 - ジェームズ・サックリング |
