Giguiere Estate The Herdsman Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

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Vintage
2020

Size
750ML

ABV
13.9%

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

The Herdsman is the culmination of Matchbook’s quest to create a premium Cabernet Sauvignon from the Dunnigan Hills. The vineyards chosen for the 2020 vintage are the most gravel-heavy sites; the type of soil that produces the most intensely flavored fruit in the appellation. The evidence is in the quintessentially-Cab aromas: lots of cassis, saddle leather, currant, and tobacco. The flavors travel from oak to fruit to spicy peppercorn. Vanilla and toast are followed by blackberry, blueberry and plum. The red berry flavors and mocha spice linger in the long, smooth finish. This is a full-bodied Cabernet that is both complex and elegant.

Professional Ratings

  • 93
    COMMENTARY: The 2020 Giguiere Estate Cabernet Sauvignon highlights that the Napa Valley isn't the only AVA in California that can bring this noble grape varietal to life. TASTING NOTES: This wine shines with aromas and flavors of blackberries, cassis, oak, and mineral. Pair it with grilled burgers topped with aged Roquefort. (Tasted: May 16, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
  • 90
    This wine leads with immediate floral-perfume aromas, moving on toward notes of blackberry, black cherry, crushed violets and purple orchids, cocoa, vanilla, nutmeg and a hint of fresh leather. As it opens, the elevated tannic structure softens and the voluptuousness of the fruits really shines through.
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Giguiere Estate, California
The winged sheep icon is an homage to the Giguiere family ranching tradition that launched their life of farming in the Dunnigan Hills. There is a long tradition of ranching in the Dunnigan Hills. The sheep farmers valued the open expanse of grasslands on gravelly soils where grazing was plentiful. And the Giguiere family has been tied to that tradition since 1852. Now the sixth generation is creating their own tradition, using sheep not for wool or food but to improve the health of the soil, the health of the vines and the quality of the grapes.
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A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe, its best examples showing potential to age beautifully for decades. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in Bordeaux's Medoc where it is often blended with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbecand Petit Verdot. In the Napa Valley, ‘Cab’ is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after “cult” wines. Somm Secret—DNA profiling in 1997 revealed that Cabernet Sauvignon was born from a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc in 17th century southwest France.

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Ideal for its warm and sunny days, mitigated by mild Sacramento Delta breezes, the wine regions of Yolo County yield a diverse set of top quality wines from Chenin blanc to Petite Sirah.

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