Paumanok Vineyards Grand Vintage Cabernet Sauvignon, North Fork of Long Island, USA

葡美奧克豐年赤霞珠干紅葡萄酒

點擊次數：2418

The 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon “Grand Vintage” – a wine far more interesting and sensually satisfying than the corresponding “white label” 2002 Cabernet – smells sweetly of cassis, cooked blueberries, sealing wax, talcum, and vanilla. Its full-bodied palate impression displays lots of sheer stuffing, a creamy texture and pliable tannins, and a layered complexity of diverse fruits, minerality, and high-toned spice that other Cabernet Sauvignons from Long Island fail to display. “There’s a huge microclimatic difference,” between this part of the Island and further east, explains Massoud, “because as the island gets wider, the wind warms up coming over the South fork and for Cabernet, a late season ripener, that makes all the difference. Usually we pick late October or early November, but it’s a race between that and the first killing frost.” I’d plan to follow this for at least eight or ten years. Tel. (631) 722-8800

The 2000 Cabernet Sauvignon “Grand Vintage” smells of singed beef, iodine, tobacco, and rhubarb. Dense, full-bodied, palpably thick and faintly oily on the palate, this clings with an abundance of meat, mineral, and stewed fruit flavors. I would anticipate another decade of interesting evolution.Tel. (631) 722-8800

Intense black fruit and tar aromas are found in the dark ruby-colored 1995 Cabernet Sauvignon Grand Vintage. On the palate, mint, licorice, and powerful blackberry flavors demonstrate the high levels of ripeness that were achieved. Medium to full-bodied, highly expressive, and intensely flavorful, this brooding Cabernet should be at its best between 2001-2006.Tel: 516-722-8800