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Spottswoode Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2000
HED70076
75 cl
13.5%
£150.00
Taxes included.
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Spottswoode Estate was created in 1882 but it was only a century later in 1982 that Mary and Jack Novak released their first Cabernet Sauvignon. Since that inaugural vintage they have cemented a reputation as once of the finest producers in California, renowned for their incredibly high quality and remarkably consistent Bordeaux blends.
This is the flagship wine and is their ultimate expression of Cabernet Sauvignon from their organically farmed estate vineyard. 2000 was a complex vintage for many but this is a wonderful release hallmarked by deep cassis-driven fruit and beautifully evocative savoury notes of tobacco, cedar, black olive and dried herbs.
90
Vinous
Full ruby-red. Big, rich, perfumed aromas of blueberry, boysenberry, violet, menthol, coffee and loam. Rich and mellow but vinous, with fruit-driven flavors of currant, blueberry and boysenberry. Nicely full in the middle but slightly lean on the back end, with a bit of acidity showing. In 2000 we benefitted by being on the valley floor, with lighter soils, noted winemaker Rosemary Cakebread.Stephen Tanzer1st May 2003