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The Snowden Ranch Cabernet 2008 is a challenging wine. I want to love this wine, and the 2008 is very good. But it isn't the 2007, which was perhaps one of the finest California Cabs at a reasonable price. But this is about the 2008 not the 2007, so on with that!
It's got good fruit on the nose, currants, dark fruits, almost a Cab Franc darkness (not surprising - they do Cab Franc). It's dark purple, absolutely opaque. The fruit on the palate is terrific blackberry, sweet tannins, a tiny bit of oak, excellent balance, but not complex at all. It's simple wine, but tasty, sweet, fruit forward, well balanced, and nice.
Regardless of the terrific wine that's in this bottle, I pine for the 2007 vintage. Amazing wines, Parker called it as a fabulous winery, fabulous vineyard, in and excellent location in the Napa Valley. Snowden says this wine should be drunk young, and I agree. About $40.
Snowden's page: http://www.snowdenvineyards.com/ourWines-lv.htm
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