Caymus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
Caymus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

Caymus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

$156.00

VINTAGE: 2016, 2017

GRAPE VARIETY: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon.

TASTING NOTES: Caymus has a signature style that is dark in color, with rich fruit and ripe, velvety tannins – as approachable in youth as in maturity. We farm Cabernet grapes in eight of Napa’s 16 sub-appellations, with diversification enabling us to make the best possible wine in a given year. Our Cabernet offers layered, lush aromas and flavors, including cocoa, cassis and ripe dark berries.

SERVING TEMPERATURE: 15.5 °C.

FOOD PAIRINGS: Cabernet needs fat to attach onto… like a thick, well-marbled grilled ribeye.

AWARDS:

Every vintage Caymus Cabernet is snapped up by Cab lovers and collectors while it’s lauded by critics. This wine is from the excellent 2016 vintage that’s been rated 95 points by Wine Enthusiast.

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Winemaker Notes

Caymus has a signature style that is dark in color, with rich fruit and ripe, velvety tannins – as approachable in youth as in maturity. We farm Cabernet grapes in eight of Napa’s 16 sub-appellations, with diversification enabling us to make the best possible wine in a given year. Our Cabernet offers layered, lush aromas and flavors, including cocoa, cassis, and ripe dark berries.

Critical Acclaim

Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: With the newly released 2017 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon—I have now tasted 46 of most of the wines’ vintages since its first release with the 1972 bottling. You can find my original handwritten notes on wine.com’s Instagram: @wine_com). The new vintage is as stellar as any of the winery’s efforts to date. TASTING NOTES: This wine is smooth, polished, and well-appointed. Its bold and deep aromas and flavors of cassis and oak stay tenderly on the palate. Pair it with a thick, well-marbled grilled ribeye. (Tasted: July 12, 2019, San Francisco, CA)
Wine Spectator
This embraces the ripe, lush style head-on, with creamed plum, cassis, and blackberry preserve flavors gliding through, showing the seamless structure and hefty dollops of mocha and ganache on the finish. For the hedonist crowd.

Learning more about Caymus: the history of the winery and its famed Cabernet Sauvignon.

History of Caymus

In 1972, Chuck Wagner started Caymus Vineyards with his parents, Charlie and Lorna, with a humble plan and an uncharted future. The Wagner family were farmers with deep roots in the Napa Valley – in 1857, Chuck Wagner’s great-great-grandfather captained a wagon train to California from Bible Grove, Missouri. Working together for decades, Chuck Wagner and his parents established the family’s work ethic, appetite for innovation, down-to-earth sensibility, and deep appreciation of the pleasures of good food and wine enjoyed with family and friends.

Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon

Today, Caymus Cabernet is one of Napa Valley’s most celebrated wines. Made from grapes farmed in 8 of Napa Valley’s 16 appellations, the wine has a signature style that is dark in color, with rich fruit and ripe tannins – as approachable in youth as it is in maturity. Chuck Wagner continues to make two world-renowned Cabernet Sauvignons – Caymus Napa Valley and Caymus Special Selection. Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon is the only wine in the world to be honored twice as Wine Spectator magazine’s “Wine of the Year” for the 1984 and 1990 vintages.

Caymus Pronunciation

Kay-muh-ss

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