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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 | 2016 | Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery, Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon | BT12 | 1 (12) | - | HK$21,600 | - | 97 | JA | |
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California | 2016 | Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery, Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon | BT | - | 12 | - | HK$2,000 | 97 | JA | |
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California | 2016 | Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery, Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon | MG3 | 1 (3) | - | HK$12,825 | - | 97 | JA | |
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California | 2016 | Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery, Family Estate Grown Cabernet Sauvignon | BT6 | 1 (6) | - | HK$11,400 | - | 97 | JA | |
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This blend of 85 per cent cabernet sauvignon, nine per cent cabernet franc and six per cent petit verdot has strikingly pure blackcurrant aromas and flavors. The palate has flavorful and fleshy, ripe mixed berries, cast in plush, seamlessly even tannins. Drink or hold.
Score: 95 James Suckling (JS), JamesSuckling.com, November 2018
Spottswoode´s 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon is absolutely gorgeous. Medium in body, translucent and super-expressive, the 2016 is sublime, not to mention on the understated side of things for the year. Dark red cherry, red plum, mocha and espresso add lovely shades of nuance. The 2016 is racy, but also clearly holding back much of its ultimate potential. I imagine the 2016 will always be a wine of finesse, first and foremost.
Score: 96+ Antonio Galloni (AG), Vinous Media (VM), January 2020
Deep garnet-purple in color, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon is still very tight and youthful, slowly unfurling to reveal a multifaceted wine with tons of black, blue and red fruit sparks—plums, cherries, black currants and red currants—with dark chocolate, cedar chest, black tea and red roses in the background plus wafts of pencil lead and prosciutto. Medium-bodied and firmly textured by superbly ripe, grainy tannins, it has a fantastic core of intense, complex layers, finishing on an edifying mineral note. Wow!
Score: 100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown (LPB), The Wine Advocate (WA), October 2018
Also perfect, yet in a very different style, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate can be thought of as mix of the 2010 and 2015. Classic Cabernet notes of green tobacco, pure cassis, sappy flowers, crushed stone, and cedar all emerge from the glass, and it’s full-bodied, with a layered, multi-dimensional texture, building tannins, and one blockbuster of a finish. This continues to show incredibly consistency and I’ve been lucky enough to have multiple bottles, all of which have topped out my scale. This is unquestionably a legendary Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon that will hit maturity in about a decade or so and keep for 40-50 years.
Score: 100 Jeb Dunnuck (JD), JebDunnuck.com (JD), May 2021
Spottswoode, nudged about against Spring Mountain is situated on an ancient alluvial fan. The tiny vineyard has been owned and run by the Novak family since 1972. President Beth Novak and winemaker Aron Weinkauf are known for crafting Cabernets that paradoxically possess gentility and vivid concentration at the same time. The reverberating flavours always remind me of the sound of a church bell that someone has just struck hard. Wonderful exotic, spicy mulberry and cranberry notes. Fine tannin.
Drinking Window 2019 - 2045
Score: 97 Jane Anson (JA), Decanter (DEC), July 2019