Cabernet Franc plays the leading role in the 2015 Harmonie. Sleek, supple and forward, the 2015 will drink well with minimal cellaring. Today, the new oak is a bit pronounced. Otherwise, all the elements are nicely balanced. The blend is 85% Cabernet Franc, 9% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Revelation offers expressive black cherries, black berries and cassis with touches of eucalypt, chocolate box and graphite. It's medium-bodied, fresh and exuberant with a firm, chewy structure and an earthy finish.
Grass, melon and peach highlight a texture that’s creamy and fleshy, with a well-honed balance of lingering acidity. Medium bodied, the wine offers additional flavors of dried herb and nutmeg.
From Alexander Valley, the 2016 Sauvignon Blanc les Pionniers gives white grapefruit, lemon tart and green apple notes with hints of wild thyme and chalk dust. Medium-bodied with great vibrancy and freshness, it has a lovely steely/minerally nature and purity to the finish. 89 points.
The 2016 Sauvignon Blanc Tradition is intensely floral and aromatic, with tons of varietal character. The Tradition is aged in steel, but lees stirring adds striking texture throughout. Citrus peel, lime, sage and white flowers notes give the 2016 a decidedly exotic feel.
Aged in neutral French oak for eight months and blended with 11% Sémillon, this is a voluptuously full-figured take on the variety, textured and multi-layered. Creamy vanilla is met by waves of tangerine and peach as pea shoots and fresh grass look on.
The 2014 Sauvignon Blanc Tradition exudes gregarious notes of grapefruit, passion fruit, peaches and musk perfume. Medium-bodied with very good intensity and a nice suggestion of savory sulfide complexity, it finishes long.
The 2014 Sauvignon Blanc Les Pionniers presents a more powerful, phenolic expression of Sauvignon than that found in the Tradition. Orchard fruit, mint, white flowers and lime abound, but it is the wine's energy, delineation and finely sculpted personality that stand out most. This is very nicely done.
An alluring, toasty style, with lots of hazelnut and warm brioche notes leading the way for creamed melon and yellow apple fruit. Toast lingers on the finish, delivering a creamy mouthfeel and enough fruit for balance. For fans of the style. Drink now. 1,000 cases made.
An aspiring wine that has a big lick of oak spice at the start, which bubbles over into caramelized green apples and figs and a flash of boot polish. The palate is a touch hot, but there is a real marzipan and butter complexity.
A broad, creamy, languid style, with lots of warm brioche, butter and creamed melon and apple flavors. Lush and hedonistic in feel, but successful overall. For fans of the style. Drink now. 1,000 cases made.
A flamboyant Chard, packed with tropical fruit flavors and with a lavish overlay of smoky oak. Feels crisp and clean in the mouth, with a creamy texture and a long, spicy finish. Could use a bit more finesse and subtley, but glamorous and exciting.
More evolved color suggests consumption over the next 1-2 years is warranted. This is a medium to full-bodied, hedonistic, sexy, delicious, open-knit, tropical fruit-dominated (jammy peaches and apricots) offering.
Rich, with creamy fig, vanilla, pear, hazelnut and spice notes that are long and tasty. A delicious mouthful of Chardonnay. Drink now through 2005.
This wine has aged about like we expected to since we rated it 91points in our July 2001 issue. Big tropical fruit is still going strong, backed up by toasty, mentholly oak.
A rosé with a dark salmon color and a reasonably intense floral and red berry perfume, this is an attractive wine from the get-go. That impression of red fruits continues on the palate, with hints of strawberry, cranberry, watermelon.
COMMENTARY: Pink wines are a serious business. The Cambria Estate has successfully navigated this wine to move folks from the blush side to the bonafide rosé category, and this is no easy feat. TASTING NOTES: The 2016 Cambria Rosé of Pinot Noir exhibits loads of ripe red fruit and dried earth aromas and flavors. The weight and richness on the palate square puts this wine in the food wine category. Pair its intensity and crispness with fresh salmon sashimi.
The rose bandwagon is beginning to overflow. Cambria is on board with a crisp rose of Pinot Noir that inviting and refreshing and everything you could want from rose. Notes of strawberry and citrus, balancing acidity and a lingering finish that offers a note of peach.
This single-vineyard beauty is made in the full-bodied, oaky-leesy style that California wines labeled Gris usually are. With time, it has mellowed into something marvelous, a totally dry, acidic wine of unusual finesse and balance
A light and delicate Central Coast style with fresh cherry fruit and fragrant herbs. Wood spices up the finish, lending a sandalwood and smoked bacon richness. The texture is supple and soft, the delicate fruit persistent to the end. A satisfying Pinot for crispy duck.
Luscious dark raspberry fruit balanced by crisp herbs gives this wine a solidity and depth. Warm and spicy from the alcohol, it's well managed by the fruit presence, with a touch of pinot noir complexity in the finish.
Deep ruby red. Full-bodied. Highly extracted. Moderate oak. Chocolate, plums. Rich extracted palate with layered fruit through to the balanced tannins on the finish. Impressively proportioned and rich.
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