2007 Fisher Cabernet Sauvignon Lamb Vineyard
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(14.9% alcohol): Good bright medium ruby. The nose shows an almost syrupy raspberry quality but also good floral lift and sexy oak spices. Wonderfully suave and fine-grained, offering excellent depth to its berry, dark cherry and mineral flavors, plus hints of truffle and herbs. The palate-staining finish features firm but ripe tannins and lovely slowly mounting length. This nicely refined Cabernet still shows a touch of medicinal reserve.
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Opaque ruby. Slow-to-unfold aromas expand with air, suggesting blackcurrant, cherry preserves, pipe tobacco, smoky Indian spices and dried flowers. Broad, palate-staining dark berry and bitter cherry flavors are sweetened by a suave vanilla quality and given spine by sneaky minerality. Very rich and admirably intense but there's a core of fresh acidity here that gives the wine an unlikely impression of elegance for its power. The finish repeats the cherry and floral notes and clings with excellent tenacity. This demands cellar time.
The dense ruby/purple-hued 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Lamb Vineyard reveals beautiful blueberry and blackberry fruit along with a subtle gravelly, smoky component, a full-bodied, rich, silky mouthfeel that builds incrementally, outstanding purity and texture, and a personality reminiscent of a great northern Graves Cabernet Sauvignon-based wine from Bordeaux. This beauty is approachable, but it will be even better in 7-8 years, and should last 20-25 years thereafter. Tel. (707) 539-7511; Fax (707) 539-3601