Wines Cain Five, Spring Mountain District, USA

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The 1998 Cain Five (82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot, 2% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Malbec) reveals a complex, evolved bouquet of licorice, blackberries, and subtle sweet oak. It possesses silky tannin, fine balance, elegance, medium body, and excellent concentration. Drink it over the next 8-9 years.Tel. (707) 963-1616

The 1997 Cain Five, one of the finest wines Cain has yet produced, is a superb blend of 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc, 1% Petit Verdot, and 1% Malbec. This is a classy, rich, concentrated effort revealing copious quantities of black fruits intermixed with licorice, coffee, and vanillin. This wine is medium to full-bodied, with a velvety texture. This rich, elegant, intense, well-balanced, impressive red should drink well for 15+ years. Production was 6,770 cases. Tel. (707) 963-1616

This proprietary red wine is a blend of 63% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc, 5% Petit Verdot, and 2% Malbec. A complex nose of cedar, black fruits, tobacco, spice box, and new wood emerges from this dark ruby/purple-colored effort. Rich and moderately tannic, with excellent to outstanding flavor extraction and overall balance, this 1996 should prove to be long-lived and satisfying. The texture is rich, not compressed or clipped, and the acidity, tannin, and alcohol are well-integrated. Anticipated maturity: 2002-2016.Tel. (707) 963-1616

This mid-sized, dark ruby-colored wine offers spicy, sweet black-cherry fruit in the nose and flavors, a polished, nicely-textured, restrained style, and a spicy, medium-bodied finish. It should drink well young, yet last for 8-12 years. (Tasted in barrel.)Tel. (707) 963-1616

This wine, a blend of 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, 4% Malbec, and 3% Petit Verdot, is one of the finest efforts Cain Cellars has yet made. Fortunately, there were 5,500 cases produced. The wine reveals an opaque purple color, followed by a smoky, sweet cassis, subtle vanillin-scented nose, rich, medium to full-bodied, supple flavors, and beautifully integrated acidity, tannin, alcohol, and wood. This outstanding effort is accessible, but should age effortlessly for 15 years. Shame on me for under-rating this wine from cask!Tel. (707) 963-1616; Fax (707) 963-7952