Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon
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Cabernet Sauvignon is hands-down the favorite wine of choice, world over. It is the most renowned and the most planted grape for wine, from France to the America to South Africa and South America.

Cabernet Sauvignon has had a controversial history in Tuscan wine, particularly for its role in the arrivals of "Super Tuscan" in the mid 1970s.

Cabernet sauvignon berries are small, spherical with black, thick and very tough skin. This toughness makes the grapes fairly resistant to disease and spoilage and able to withstand some autumn rains with little damage.

Cabernet Sauvignon
First of all a typically Bordeaux vine-variety, the Cabernet Sauvignon also grows in the Loire Valley, in Languedoc Roussillon, Provence and in the South West.

Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety of red grape mainly used for wine production, and is one of the most widely-planted of the world's grape varieties.

Cabernet Sauvignon (pronounced CA-burr-nay SO-vin-yawn):
The "king" of the world’s red wine grapes, cabernet sauvignon originated in the Bordeaux region of France, but also produces superlative wines around the globe, including California, ...

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Cabernet Sauvignon
(cab-er-NAY soh-vee-NYOHn)
The king of red wines, capable of being the most tannic and long lived of the reds. Complex and supple, aromas of concentrated blackberry and cassis are most commonly found.

CABERNET SAUVIGNON: A "noble" grape famous as one of the main varietals, along with Merlot, Cabernet Franc and others, (many of which are distantly related), used to create the magnificent french Bordeaux region blended red wines.

Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety of red grape and is the main red wine grape for most of the top vineyards in Bordeaux's Medoc and Pessac-Leognan Graves districts.

Cabernet Sauvignon: Cabernet Sauvignon wines are made from these grapes - on the vine they are red, small, and tough. The wines tend to taste like blackberries and cedar. Bordeaux uses the Cabernet Sauvignon grape, usually mixed in with Merlot.

Cabernet Sauvignon
[Bouchet]
The king of red grapes, its best wines are deeply flavoured, fragrant, keen edged and long lived, because its abundant tannin gives great structure.

Cabernet Sauvignon (cab-air-nay so-vee-n'yohn)
One of the most important red wine grapes. It is the base for many of the New World's finest wines, as well as the wines of Bordeaux, France.

CABERNET SAUVIGNON
A noble red-wine grape characterized by intensity and acidity.

Cabernet Sauvignon - Often called the "king" of red grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon is, along with Merlot, the famous grape of Bordeaux.

Cabernet Sauvignon: Great Cabs have bouquets with traces of cassis, blackberry, cedar, butterscotch, green peppers, chocolate, coca, leather. Deep, plummy richness.

Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon is perhaps the most famous grape varietal in the world. California's best red wines often are made of this grape, which is suprisingly easy to grow and make into wine.

Cabernet Sauvignon (ca-bear-nay saw-vee-n'yon)
classic red wine grape of Bordeaux
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Cabernet Sauvignon. Red-wine grape responsible for famous Bordeaux wines and many California "cult wines."
California. Produces 90% of wines made in the U.S. and 70% of wines drunk in the U.S. Most important regions: Napa, Sonoma.

Cabernet Sauvignon: A major variety of red (or black) grape, considered by many to produce the finest red wines in the world. It is the classic centrepiece of the clarets of the Médoc in Bordeaux. Widely grown in most areas of Australia.

Cabernet Sauvignon
The most renowned grape for making cellar-worthy reds. While it's most famous in Bordeaux, this grape is grown worldwide. At its most powerful, Cabernet Sauvignon is deeply colored, tannic and oaky from barrel aging.

Cabernet Sauvignon - Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety of red grape mainly used for wine production, and is, along with Chardonnay, one of the most widely-planted of the world's noble grape varieties.

Cabernet Sauvignon: A powerful, tannic red grape of noble heritage; the base grape for many red Bordeaux and most of the best red wines from California, Washington, Chile and South Africa; capable of aging for decades.

Cabernet Sauvignon
Considered the most important red wine grape throughout the world, and the basis of the most famous wines of California, Bordeaux, and many other wine districts.
Canopy
The foliage of a grape vine.

Cabernet Sauvignon - Cabernet Sauvignon is a red wine known for its depth of flavor, aroma and ability to age. It is full-bodied and intense, with cherry- currant and sometimes herbal flavors. Cabernet Sauvignon may have noticeable tannins.

Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon is a dry red wine that can age for decades and becomes more complex and subtle as a result. Signature aromas in its youth include blackcurrant, cassis, blackberry, herbs and cedar or oak.

Cabernet Sauvignon grapes produce a full-bodied, high in tannin wine. It is the Napa Valley wine that put California on parity with France as a producer of great wines. Because of the tannin, you can hold these wines for many years.

Cabernet sauvignon
Synonyms
None in Australia, but in France also known as Petit Cabernet, Vidure, Vidure Sauvignonne, Petit Bouchet etc. This grape variety is not to be confused with Cabernet Franc.

CABERNET SAUVIGNON (Red) [cab-er-NAY SO-vin-yon]
The undisputed king of red wines, Cabernet is a remarkably steady and consistent performer throughout much of the state.

Cabernet Sauvignon
Perhaps the noblest of them all, Cabernet Sauvignon makes big, dense, structured red wines capable of long aging.

Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot: how many wines are produced with these three grape varieties in the world? It is difficult to say, but they certainly are a lot.

Cabernet Sauvignon:
Cabernet Sauvignon is the King of Red grapes. Making some of the most famous wines in the world this grape has all of the components necessary for producing blockbuster wines with a long aging potential; lots of color, tannin, ...

Cabernet Sauvignon - (Cab-air-nay So-veen-yawN)
One of the noblest red wine grapes, used in Bordeaux, also as either a 100 percent varietal or in red blends in the U.S., Australia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and wherever wine grapes grow.

Cabernet Sauvignon: Adapts well to all Argentine regions. Complex aromas of tobacco, black pepper, red fruits. Full-bodied and structured through aging.

Our Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot wines are produced in the classic Bordeaux style. The grapes are hand harvested and are brought into the winery in small lug boxes and put directly into the crusher - destemmer.

Just as Cabernet sauvignon has become the most popular high-quality red-wine grape, Chardonnay has taken the lead for the first-class white wine grapes and with even greater passion.

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Bordeaux blendA style of wine assembled from the classic red grapes of Bordeaux including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot.

Cabernet Sauvignon perhaps the most well-known of the Bordeaux varietals, it is responsible for some of the worlds richest, most complex red wines. Often the backbone for Meritage (Bordeaux-style) blends.

Cedarwood -An element in the bouquet of Cabernet Sauvignon.
Clean - Fresh with no discernible defects; refers to aroma, appearance and flavour.
Closed - Young, undeveloped wines not readily showing their character are said to be closed.

Merlot, is the second great grape (after Cabernet Sauvignon) of Bordeaux and is the predominant variety in both Saint Émilion and Pomerol. Merlot grapes ripen earlier than those of Cabernet Sauvignon, have lower tannins and higher sugar levels.

With the former, there are many areas of the world where Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot have been successfully cultivated, the wines and regions developing a name and reputation in their own right.

Bigger reds such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Nebbiolo from Italy, Shiraz from Australia, Rioja Reservas from Spain, Rhõne wines, more expensive Burgundy and Bordeaux wines, are best when served at 60°-65° F, and please hold the cubes.

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Davis campus by crossing Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache and Carignane. The intention was to produce a Cabernet-like wine that could be grown in the Central Valley.

On the left bank are the Médoc and Graves regions, which produce some of the most celebrated wines in the world from Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Malbec.

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Assume that we have a full-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon that has only moderate flavour levels, but distinct varietal character, and a typical level of acidity for a Cabernet (but a higher level than the average red table wine).

Inspect the color in terms of the type of grape: in red wines, a deep, rich red is often seen in a Cabernet Sauvignon while an even darker, almost purply hue can be noticed in lots of Shiraz.

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Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Barbera can make wines so inky-purple they could refill fountain pens. The hues of the black grapes are consistent but they become nearly transparent when made into rosé or blush-style wines.

In Cabernet Sauvignon a small amount of this vegetal quality is said to be part of varietal character. But when the vegetal element takes over, or when it shows up in wines in which it does not belong, those wines are considered flawed.

Varietals such as 'Chardonnay,' 'Cabernet Sauvignon,' 'Merlot,' 'Petit Syrah,' 'Riesling,' 'Zinfandel,' and the like must be made from grapes and 75% must be the named variety.

Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are the most prestigious, followed by Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir. The Zinfandel, grown almost exclusively in California, produces a wine equal to those of the classic European grapes.

Among the grapes used for red Meritage wines are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot. Among the grapes used for white Meritage wines are Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. Meritage wines are usually expensive.
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Bordeaux-style wines (red wines made of blends relying on Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and/or Cabernet Franc; whites made of Sauvignon Blanc and/or Sémillon) are put in Bordeaux-style bottles with straight sides and high shoulders.

Varietal: Refers to wine made from a specific grape variety like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Chardonnay.
Variety: Refers to a specific type of grape that when made into wine becomes a varietal, as in Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Chardonnay.

See also: Sauvignon, Cabernet, Wine, Red, Region