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2003 Switchback Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Peterson Family Vineyard Napa Valley
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2003 Switchback Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Peterson Family Vineyard Napa Valley

Producer: Switchback Ridge
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Cabernet Sauvignon
Origin: California
Region: Napa

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91(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , May/June 2006

($72) Bright ruby-red. Highly aromatic nose combines black raspberry and chocolate. Then sweet and concentrated but laid-back, with a rocky character to the dark fruit flavors. This, too, is a bit youthfully medicinal but possesses lovely fruit. The tannins are firm. From a well-drained site featuring gravelly loam soil with a lot of rocks. Like the 2003 merlot, this wine seems clearly more successful than the 2002 version.

90 Points | Wine Spectator
94 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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Napa Valley is the most famous wine-growing area in the U.S. It begins at the base of Mount St. Helena in the north and tapers off some 30 miles to the south into the floodplain where the Napa River enters San Francisco Bay. From Mount St. Helena to the city of Napa, the valley is defined by two north-south ridgelines of the Coast Range Mountains.
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Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon built its reputation on Bordeaux's Left Bank. Here, in the district of Medoc, the varietal is the key component of blended wines that also may include some Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and even Malbec and Petit Verdot. Moving slightly south, Cabernet Sauvignon meets Merlot in roughly equal proportions in the red wines of Graves. In both of these Bordeaux regions, the top bottles...
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