Ilsley Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon, Stags Leap District, USA

伊斯利酒莊赤霞珠干紅葡萄酒

點(diǎn)擊次數(shù)：2097

Deftly balanced, intense, focused and complex, with full-bodied dried currant, herb, sage and mineral notes. Ends with finesse, elegance and grace, with refined tannins. There's a hint of heat. Drink now through 2014. 318 cases made. -JL

A polished and classic Stags Leap Cab, showing the velvet glove quality of approachability, but the iron fist of ageability. Firm in tannins and bone dry, it offers lush flavors of crushed ripe blackberries, with oaky notes of butterscotch and meringue. Delicious, and will hold for a good six years. ——S.H.(8/1/2009)—— 94

This is the kind of wine the late, great Andre Tchelistcheff described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. The glove is the lush, forward blackberry, currant and cocoa flavors, the smooth texture and the seductively sweet new oak. The fist is the sheer power. This is an important addition to the pantheon of Stags Leap Cabernet Sauvignon, and one that needs some time in the cellar.——S.H.(6/1/2008)—— 92