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Carmel Road
2002 Chardonnay Arroyo Seco
Linda Murphy, San Francisco Chronicle, CA Recommended

Yes, you can have richness, bold flavor and elegance in one wine and this Chardonnay pulls it off. From its ripe tropical, lemon-lime and apple fruit to its complex spice, hazelnut and mineral notes to its toasty yet mouthwatering finish, Carmel Road is one smooth ride.

Carmel Road
2001 Chardonnay Monterey
Editor, San Francisco Chronicle, CA

Very good and a panel favorite. Oak and creamy nose with lots of butter, vanilla and some lime; lemon, apple, mango, pepper and rich butterscotch; balanced; well-made for the rich style.

Cardinale
1999 Red Blend Napa Valley
Allison Levine, Napa Valley Register, CA A vertical tasting at Cardinale

A vertical tasting at Cardinale A dense and opulent wine with aromas of blueberry, blackberry, tobacco and cedar and sandy tannins that cover the tongue.

Cardinale
1999 Red Blend California
Editor, Robb Report From the Robb Cellar - Three outstanding California Cabernets for your private collection.

As perhaps the most important Cabernet designation in Napa, Oakville has generated some of the best Bordeaux-style blends outside of France. Only a very few of them, however, can match this label for its silky elegance. While the grapes are sourced from a variety of vineyards located both in both the Mayacamas and Vaca Mountain ranges, as well as from Peter Michael's Les Pavots vineyard, this Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot blend remains pure of flavor, with a texture that shimmers like fresh-spun silk. Winemaker Chris Carpenter has rendered a sinuous yet smooth vintage that integrates an array of essences-chocolate, currant, coffee, and exotic woods-into a luscious, gratifying whole.

Cardinale
1997 Red Blend California
Editor, Wine & Spirits

A deep well of dense fruit, cool, rich, exploding with flavor into the finish. That explosion is so tied to flinty tannins that the wine stays tight, as if the bottle were blasted by a shotgun yet stood there unscathed.

Cardinale
1997 Red Blend California
Steven Spurrier, Decanter

*high price, high quality *deep, elegant fruit - This is the top of the top range of Kendall-Jackson's 'Jackson Family Farms Wines' and the fruit comes 79% from Napa, 21% from Sonoma with an overall blend of 91% Cabernet Sauvignon and 9% Merlot. The colour is deep & vibrant, the fruit beautifully balanced, with none of the over-extraction of many California 'super-stars', and the wine almost but not quite ready to drink.

Cardinale
1996 Red Blend California
Charles Olken, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine 1 Puff

Hints of Kijafa give the aromas an almost too sweet character when combined with the vanillin scents of the oak. In the flavors, the ripe black cherry flavors and ample presence of sweet oak again give the wine a forward, accessible character that has some appeal. Dark chocolate notes surface in the lengthy finish.

Cardinale
1995 Red Blend Napa Valley
Allison Levine, Napa Valley Register, CA A vertical tasting at Cardinale

A vertical tasting at Cardinale Dark fruit notes, brown spices and a touch of sweetness with elegant tannins, this wine is still powerful after 23 years but also elegant.

Cardinale
1995 Red Blend California
Editor, Wine & Spirits

This superb blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot has flavors of coffee, chocolate and vanilla, and a long, creamy finish.

Cardinale
1995 Red Blend California
Tom Stockley, Seattle Times, WA

It is a huge wine with big fruit and tannins. It's mostly cabernet sauvignon and has spent 24 months in new French oak.

Cardinale
1995 Red Blend California
Laurie Daniel, San Jose Mercury News, CA

Hefty, with lots of black cherry and berry flavors, as well as quite a lot of oak and tannin. There's lots to this wine; it just needs a few years of cellaring.

Cardinale
1995 Red Blend California
Bill Citara, San Francisco Examiner, CA

Another Wow! Wine, this gorgeous blend of Merlot and Cabernet from four different vineyards was my own pick for best wine of the tasting. It was smooth, elegant and complex on the palate, with raspberry and spice flavors that segued into a long, seductive finish. Not as heavy as some of its compatriots, it would go well with lighter dishes such as chicken or fish, as well as spicy dishes that would be piquant counterpoint to its refined nature.

Cardinale
1995 Red Blend California
Editor, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine 2 Puffs

Here is a wine that typifies to a "tee" the opulent, optimally ripe and highly oaked formula for success in latter-day Cabernet. From its dense, cherry-raspberry aromas to its broadly filled, wonderfully well-extracted flavors, it carries a wealth of very sweet oak spice, but it never leans so far to oaky excess that its fruit is lost. Fairly tannic and a little hot at the end, the wine is also very rich to the last, and we would expect that richness to remain throughout the called-for five to eight years of cellaring.

Cardinale
1993 Red Blend California
Tim Fish, Press Democrat, CA 3 1/2 Stars. Good to Highly Recommended

Has a sense of elegance. It's fun to drink, with jammy cassis aromas and flavors, plus licorice, smoke. Only the price is out of proportion.

Cardinale
1993 Red Blend California
Editor, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine

Built for age and very much demanding of it, this big, dense, decidedly tough young wine trades finesse for sheer extract and makes abundant use of savory oak spice. Very rich, but rather rugged and fit with tongue-curing tannins just now, it is the kind of wine that will age and age without ever earning the descriptor "pretty". Still, it has the mass and muscle to team with the richest beef and lamb entrees and deserves six or seven years of patience.

Cardinale
1992 Red Blend California
Editor, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine 1 Star. A fine example of a type or style of wine.

Favoring the ripe, dense style so prevalent in the '92s, this wine makes its way in the world for the sheer intensity of its ripe black cherry, dried plum, herb, vanilla and sweet spice aromas and weighty, mouthfilling flavors. A bit angular towards the end, it is a wine that is less likely to evolve into classical, layered Cabernet and seems better suited to marinated meats than to the typical roasts the Cabernet accompanies so well.

Cardinale
1991 Red Blend California
Editor, Wine & Spirits Best Meritage & One of 50 Best Wines of the Year.
Cardinale
1991 Red Blend California
Michael Franz, The Washington Post, DC Recommended.

A great exemplar of the character and quality of the vintage.

Cardinale
1991 Red Blend California
Editor, Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine 1 Star. A fine example of a type or style of wine.

Hints of cocoa, brush and dried orange add a bit of intrigue to a rich blend of sweet oak and ripe cherries in the neatly married aromas. While each of these elements peeks through in the flavors, they are subordinate to a simpler theme of emphatic ripeness here, and the wine is never quite so complex as it is generous.

Cardinale
2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Sara Schneider, Robb Report Napa’s New Hot Wine List Here are our picks of the top 2016 Cabernet lots from Barrel Auction 2018.

Napa’s New Hot Wine List Here are our picks of the top 2016 Cabernet lots from Barrel Auction 2018. Cardinale With the tight structure of youth (yes, these wines are young), the Cardinale ($68,900) still gives up lovely raspberry flavors laced with fresh herbs and minerality. This has the power to live a long time in the cellar.

Cardinale
2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Alder Yarrow, Vinography 9-9.5

Very dark garnet in the glass, this wine smells of rich cherry fruit. In the mouth, lush and bright cherry fruit has a wonderful aromatic sweetness and mixes with cola and cocoa powder. Dark chocolate notes linger in the finish along with dusty tannins. Very pretty and polished. 14.5% alcohol. Score: between 9 and 9.5.

Cardinale
2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Allison Levine, Napa Valley Register, CA A vertical tasting at Cardinale

A vertical tasting at Cardinale While still young, this structured wine has floral and red and purple fruit aromas and drying elegant tannins.

Cardinale
2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Laura Ness, Los Gatos Magazine Dream Cabernets From Napa & Beyond

Dream Cabernets From Napa & Beyond An esteemed brand in the Jackson Family portfolio, Cardinale, located in Oakville, produces a single Cabernet Sauvignon each vintage. Consistently at the top of the charts, this wine has earned 98 points from Wine Advocate. Winemaker Christopher Carpenter says this blend of 88% Cabernet Sauvignon and 12% Merlot, sourced from multiple vineyards, from Veeder Peak to Spring Mountain to Howell Mountain reminds him of a great vintage of Pontet-Canet from Pauillac. Aged in 94% new French oak, he describes it as slightly bigger than life, which is a serious understatement. Massive aromas of cedar, graphite, tobacco and crème de cassis can hardly prepare you for this profoundly concentrated monster, packed with black currant and seething with tightly wound acid and gargantuan, yet silky tannins. This is the T-rex of the cabs in this collection.

Cardinale
2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Richard Hemming MW, JancisRobinson.com 17.5/20

Amazing fruit purity – all cassis. Some floral and spicy notes on the palate, and a plush, balanced tannic feel on the palate. Impressive and glossy, but not gross – this has savoury sensibilities and a dry, lengthy finish. 17.5/20

Cardinale
2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Richard Hemming MW, JancisRobinson.com 17/20

Deep crimson. Really pretty luscious on the nose but not over the top – apart from the price! A fine-grained, very slightly sandy texture keeps it interesting. Although it’s not short of alcohol, it’s not sweet. Luscious but I think I would understand it better if I knew exactly where the fruit came from. Clean, bracing and far from heavy. 17/20