Taste: This rich and complex Cabernet offers chocolate truffles, raspberry, and forest floor notes in the nose. It traverses the mid-palate with thick and concentrated tannins that are ripe and balanced, ending with flavors of blackberry, spice, and caramelized walnuts with a dash of vanilla. Cropped in at 2 tons per acre and fermented with native yeasts and thrice-daily punch-downs, the wine spent 18 months in 2-year-old American oak barrels before being racked to neutral wood for another year.
Cameron Confidential: This wine was a tough acquisition. The guy who makes it, a curmudgeonly Italian fellow, refused to negotiate off his price despite being two vintages behind the market—he knew what he had. We ended up paying exactly what he asked despite thinking there was blood in the water. They sell the wine for $50, so it's still a screaming deal at $15 and as good as any Cab we have released. I see this as the big brother wine to Lot 7—yeah, it costs a couple bucks more, but it's worth it, especially for a 2004, which is the best Alexander Valley vintage in the marketplace today.
Lot 71
2004 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
- Vintage: 2004
- Appellation: Alexander Valley
- Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon
- Alcohol by volume: 14.5%
- Production: 1,000 cases
- Release date: July 22, 2008
- Drink/Hold: Now and through 2014-2023
- Online availability: Sold out
Downloads
- Lot 71 8.5 x 11 flyer (pdf)
- Lot 71 small notes (pdf)
