Hail Fellows, Well Met
An autumnal dinner with new friends and old wines
cabernet sauvignon
2014 Corison Helios Cabernet Franc Sunbasket Vineyard St. Helena
Less known than her Cabernet Sauvignon is Cathy Corison’s Cabernet Franc, grown in a vineyard she’s been farming organically for decades and has more…
2018 Corison Winery Cabernet Sauvignon St. Helena Napa Valley
Fruit for the Napa Valley bottling is sourced from vineyards Cathy Corison’s been farming organically (and now with some biodynamic principles) for decades. The…
2016 Gallica Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Rosemary Cakebread sources fruit from the Oakville Ranch Vineyard for her Napa Cabernet. The wine is Cab Sauv with a little Cab Franc, and…
2019 Corison Winery Cabernet Sauvignon St. Helena Napa Valley
Cathy Corison’s 2019 Napa Valley Cabernet, just released, is deep, brilliant ruby-purple and, as with all of of her wines, is highly perfumed, scented…
2018 Gaja Ca’ Marcanda Magari Bolgheri
Gaja’s Magari Super Tuscan is 60 percent Cabernet Franc, 30 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, and 10 percent Petit Verdot. It has a fresh ruby color…
2019 Hawk and Horse Vineyards Sparkling Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé Red Hills Lake County
This vintage traditional method rosé from Hawk and Horse uses biodynamically farmed Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine is the color of pink tourmaline and animated…
2017 Corison Cabernet Sauvignon St. Helena Napa Valley
Cathy Corison’s 2017 Napa Cabernet is lovely now, but, like all of her younger wines, has many years ahead of it. The color is…
2015 Corison Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos Vineyard Napa Valley
The 2015 vintage was Cathy Corison’s twentieth from her estate Kronos Vineyard, so it was a natural choice to celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary….
2013 AXR Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
I received this sample in November, 2017, as part of a large, unsolicited shipment of California Cabernets made by consulting enologist Jean Hoefliger. The…
2017 Centralas Wine Cabernet Sauvignon I, Nomad Mendocino
The Centralas Cabernet is fermented with ambient cultures, and the wine spends three years in French barriques, about one-fifth new. The winery admirably discloses…
2015 Laurel Glen Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Sonoma Mountain Sonoma County
This is an estate wine from the 14-acre Laurel Glen Vineyard, first planted in 1968. The site has been certified organic since 2014 and…