Kendall-Jackson Jackson Estate Hawkeye Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
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Deep black cherry, cassis and red currant flavors with graceful mineral tones. Well-extracted, elegantly muscular, with chewy,soft tannins.
Blend: 99.3% Cabernet Sauvignon, 0.7% Cabernet Franc
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
I tasted the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Jackson Estate Hawkeye Mountain as a barrel sample. It will mature in 60% new French oak for 20 months and is due to be bottled in August 2022. Opaque ruby-purple in color, it has aromas of cassis, tobacco leaves and violets, with a youthful frame of cedar and sweet spice. The full-bodied palate is grainy, fresh and fragrant at this stage, finishing with gregarious floral perfume.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Sourced from Pocket Peak, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Jackson Estate Hawkeye Mountain is packed with aromas of concentrated black plum skin, cedar, and sage. This is a full octane wine that does not shy away from its structure and power. Notes of dried herbs, fresh tobacco, primary black fruits, and light bourbon toast emerge on the palate. Hold this red a couple years and enjoy over the next 10 or more years.
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Back in 1974, Jess Jackson saw in the fine vineyards of California's cool coastal regions fruit with a variety of outstanding flavors. What if there was a way to produce from this abundance, a single outstanding "cuvée" that offered both quality and value? The result, first released in 1983, was Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay, a rich, round and flavorful wine, made with hand-crafted methods. That same year, Grand Reserve was introduced, a line of ultra-premium wines that represented the full potential of California's finest vineyards and winemaking.
Today, over 5,000 acres of vineyard in California's coastal regions are farmed by Kendall-Jackson. Four separate wineries house what is possibly the single largest barrel-fermentation project in the world. But perhaps most important, is that Kendall-Jackson remains a family-owned winery.
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