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Name: Canyon RoadGrape: Cabernet Sauvignon
Region: California
Country: USA
Year: 2014
Price: $8.00 (Blackstone Grill - Glass)
First Pour Wine Review:
"Sight – Inky black with deep red edges, possible glass obfuscation
Smell – Black plums, black currant, dark cherries, dark chocolate, subtle spicing. A very fruit forward nose
Sip – Generally low acid, fairly smooth, and rather weighty. Chocolate, black currant, plum skin, and a subtle dusty, stemmy flavor comes forward. It’s not a clear set of flavors though.
Savor – The tannins are not super aggressive, plum, earth, and a bit of a cedar note round out the finish"
Winemaker's Note:"Medium- bodied wine with rich and flavorful hints of ripe raspberry and a velvety smooth finish"
- Canyon Road Winery
Personal Review:
Canyon Road's 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon is a good wine, but not one to rave about. It was a standard, run-of-the-mill Cab Sauvignon with a decent taste but excellent and pleasing smell to it. When the glass was given to me at Blackstone Grill, located in Christiansburg, VA, I swirled for a good few minutes and as I swirled the glass, I could immediately smell the wine particles wafting towards my nose. It had a very aromatic and fruity nose to it, conjuring up descriptors like black cherry, black pepper, and dark chocolate. I could've honestly spent the next hour smelling the wine! I ordered beef brisket with this wine and it was a decent complement to the dish but maybe something that was a bit bolder and more full bodied would've been a better choice. On the tongue, I tasted some of the black cherry I smelled, but definitely had a strawberry aspect to it. There wasn't much of a hot sensation, so I suspect this wine to be lower in alcohol content. After taking notes on the nose and taste, I honestly think the best part about this tasting was the nose of the wine.
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