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| Region | California |
| Appellation | Napa Valley |
| Category | Red Wine |
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| Cat | Region | Year | Producer, Wine | Size | C(s) | Bt(s) | HKD/Cs | HKD/Bt | Score | Critic | |
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California | 2013 | Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery, Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon | BT12 | 1 (12) | - | HK$21,600 | - | 99+ | RP | |
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California | 2013 | Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery, Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon | MG | - | 1 | - | HK$4,500 | 99+ | RP | |
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California | 2013 | Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery, Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon | BT | - | 12 | - | HK$2,000 | 99+ | RP | |
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California | 2013 | Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery, Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon | MG3 | 1 (3) | - | HK$12,825 | - | 99+ | RP | |
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California | 2013 | Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery, Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon | BT6 | 1 (6) | - | HK$11,400 | - | 99+ | RP | |
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Yields continued to increase in 2013, with just over 4,000 cases of wine from a blend of 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot. This is another killer effort from Spottswoode. Inky bluish purple to the rim, it has hints of violets intermixed with sweet foresty notes, blackcurrants, chocolate and a touch of subtle smoke and earth. It is dense, with higher acidity and more noticeable structure than the 2012, but is as concentrated, dense and promising. Some patience is warranted in 2013, and I would suggest waiting another 5-6 years before pulling the cork on one. It is a 50-year wine at the very minimum and a great classic.
Score: 99+ Robert Parker (RP), The Wine Advocate (WA), August 2016
The 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon is deep garnet with a touch of purple and exudes pure black truffles on the nose to begin, slowly unfurling to reveal a core of black cherries, warm blackcurrants and plum preserves with suggestions of eucalyptus, tilled soil, chargrill and new leather. Medium-bodied with a great intensity of earth-tinged black fruits, it has a firm frame of grainy tannins and a long truffle-laced finish.
Score: 99 Lisa Perrotti-Brown (LPB), The Wine Advocate (WA), October 2018
One of the most classic examples of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon I could imagine is the 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon from Spottswoode. This blend of 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot is a truly heavenly, classic wine built for the ages. Offering beautiful notes of black and blue fruits, graphite, exotic spices, violets and spring flowers, with a touch of earthy, damp river rock-like minerality, it hits the palate with full-bodied richness, stunning purity of fruit, perfect balance, building tannin, and a great, great finish. While a number of 2013s have closed down at this point, this still offers beautiful freshness and purity, yet will ideally be given another 4-5 years of bottle age and enjoyed over the following 3-4 decades. Do you want a sure bet in awesome, age-worthy Cabernet from northern California? Buy this wine.
Score: 100 Jeb Dunnuck (JD), JebDunnuck.com (JD), December 2017
Nuances of clove, tar and graphite marry with crunchy dark fruit, introducing a firmly structured and intensely concentrated wine with striking cut and energy. This is one of the best young Spottswoode´s of recent times, and one of the most vibrant, primary benchland Cabernet Sauvignon´s of the vintage—likely to be one of the most long-lived.
Drinking Window 2023 - 2055
Score: 97 Jane Anson (JA), Decanter (DEC), May 2016