Category Archives: cabernet sauvignon

Tasting note: 1997 California Cabernet Sauvignon

By winecase | Published: May 19, 2008
On the evening following the death of Napa Valley legend Robert Mondavi, I headed with a higher than usual level of anticipation to my main wine tasting group’s tasting on 1997 California Cabernet Sauvignon. The events of the day put the tasting under a special light, with everyone wondering, on arrival, whether or not a [...]
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This wine tastes like a million bucks

By winecase | Published: January 15, 2008
If you have any doubts that blind tasting is essential to formulating a relatively objective judgment about a wine, you just have to read this article sent out on the wires by Agence France-Presse. It summarizes a study conducted at the California Institute of Technology, which demonstrates quite clearly that our knowledge about the (supposed) [...]
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Tasting Note: Mas de Daumas Gassac 1997

By winecase | Published: August 24, 2007
Those of you who saw Mondovino, the militant artisan-wine documentary by Jonathan Nossiter, will remember Aimé Guibert as the stern looking man who declares that “le vin est mort” (wine is dead). More importantly, you should know him as a remarkable winemaker and vigneron whose Mas de Daumas Gassac is a truly remarkable domaine. Yesterday, I [...]
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