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2008 Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Special Selection Napa Valley
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About Caymus Vineyards

Family owned and run, Caymus Vineyards produces some of Napa Valley's finest Cabernet Sauvignon. The "Special Selection" and "Napa Valley" bottlings are rich, lavishly oaked wines with bold cassis, black cherry, loam and spice flavors. Winemaker Chuck Wagner oversees the production of 65,000 cases annually at the Rutherford, California winery.

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2008 Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Special Selection Napa Valley

Producer: Caymus Vineyards
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Cabernet Sauvignon
Origin: California
Region: Napa

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93 Points | International Wine Cellar , May/June 2011

(15.4% alcohol):  Bright, full medium ruby.  Black raspberry, bitter chocolate and licorice on the nose.  Lush, sweet, concentrated and mouthfilling; not nearly as porty as the basic cabernet, with seamless dark fruit flavors showing more energy and depth than the regular bottling.  The finish is smoothly tannic, chocolatey and very long.  Like a liquid confection, even at this early stage:  this really saturates the mouth.  This is so sexy now that it's hard not to wonder whether the wine's potential flavor complexity has been compromised by its uncanny early sweetness.  But it certainly has the stuffing to age.

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

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Voluptuous
11/13/2011
by JW
Soaring nose of espresso, blackberries, and dark chocolate. A grapey attack followed by a full-bodied, opulent, mouth-coating mix of black cherry, blueberry, and dark chocolate. Hedonistic in every way. Very approachable in its youth with the backbone to evolve for a decade and drink well for 20 years.

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About Napa Valley

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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