Savage Grace Wines Red Willow Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
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Robert
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Red Willow Vineyard is located at the far western end of Yakima Valley AVA. This unique Cabernet Sauvignon made with only neutral oak barrels (no new oak). Intense, elegant, and meaty with red and black cherry fruit. Native fermentation. Unfiltered.
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A 100% varietal from one of the state's most highly regarded sites, this wine has aromas offering notes of fruit rollup, green pepper, smoke and currant. The palate is delicate, with a lot of subtleties. The tannins are bunched up at present. Give them time to stretch out.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Red Willow Vineyard unfolds with freshness and approachability on the nose, revealing layers of red fruit and subtle pepper skin notes with refreshing hints of white flowers and zesty herbs. The palate is generous and layered with a lively mineral tension and discernible tannic edge that evolves and uncoils with every sip. Enjoy with food.
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Robert
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His vision is to make Old World style lower-alcohol, balanced, and expressive wines. He is continuing to deepen his core understanding of all stages in the vinification process, to put his philosophy of low-intervention winemaking into practice, where the grape, vineyard and vintage form a unique balance.
“SAVAGE” – echoes the struggle of the grape to withstand the stress of ripening, along with making wine that is true to the grape, site, and vintage.
“GRACE” – also his wife’s name, is symbolizing what he hopes to achieve as the end result a wine that is delicate, balanced, approachable yet expressive.
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.
As the first recognized wine-growing region in the Pacific Northwest, Yakima Valley is centrally located within Washington’s vast Columbia Valley. The region also includes Washington’s oldest Cabernet Sauvignon vines, Otis Vineyard, planted in 1957, and Harrison Hill Vineyard, planted in 1963. Yakima Valley contains three smaller sub-regions: Rattlesnake Hills, Red Mountain, and Snipes Mountain and is ideal for both red and white wine production. In fact, Yakima Valley is Washington’s most diverse region, boasting more than 40 different grape varieties over about one hundred miles.
The cooler parts of the valley are home to almost half of the Chardonnay and Riesling produced in the state! Both are made in a wide range of styles depending on the conditions of the vineyard site.
But its warmer locations yield a large proportion of Washington’s best Merlot, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. The finest Yakima Valley reds are jam-packed full of red cherry, currant, raspberry or blackberry fruit, as well as cocoa, herb, spice and savory notes, and exhibit a supple texture, great body, focus and length.