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Proprietary Blend · North Coast
100 points from Robert Parker.
“A candidate for perfection, the 2012 Madrona Ranch clearly includes a high percentage of Cabernet Franc (45%) in the blend given the extraordinary perfume this wine generates. An enormous blast of violets, mulberries, black currants and licorice-infused blackberries as well as hints of unsmoked cigar tobacco and forest floor soar from the glass of this full-bodied, voluptuously textured, inky-colored, dense, rich, pedal-to-the-metal proprietary red. This has virtually perfect balance, a flawless integration of all its component parts, and an enormous finish of close to a minute. This should turn out to be an amazing wine. Moreover, 2012 is a generous vintage in terms of production. RP”
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Is anyone anywhere in the world making more consistently profound wines than the famous viticulturalist David Abreu and his long-time sidekick and assistant, former chef Brad Grimes? Working from relatively small sites, two of them adjacent to the back streets of St. Helena (the six-acre Cappella Vineyard alongside a cemetery and the home estate of Madrona Ranch at the base of Spring Mountain) to the co-owned vineyard with Ric Forman, the magnificent Thorevilos Vineyard behind the Meadowood Resort. There is also his own 2,000-foot elevation site on Howell Mountain.
These wines are all proprietary reds, probably containing at least 60-65% Cabernet Sauvignon, the rest largely Cabernet Franc with a little Petit Verdot and occasionally tiny amounts of Merlot. They spend a full two years in 100% new French oak and are bottled without any fining or filtration. They are exquisite examples of Bordeaux blends that are true first growths in every sense. So how do I go about describing these wines, which are so exciting and satisfying on both hedonistic and intellectual levels?
One bottle, 750 ml, of the 2012 vintage.
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Winemaker Brad Grimes, at Abreu Vineyards, owned by David Abreu.
Yes. You must be 21 years of age or older to purchase.
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