Caymus Vineyards
Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2021 750ml
Caymus Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2021 750ml
USA : CALIFORNIA : NAPA VALLEY
Cabernet Sauvignon
FULL-BODIED, BLACK CHERRY, CASSIS, COCOA, TOBACCO, OAK
Chuck Wagner opened Caymus in 1972 with his parents and 240 cases of Cabernet. Fifty-plus years on the family still owns all of it, and the Napa Valley bottling is still built the same way: fruit pulled from eight of the valley's sixteen sub-appellations, Coombsville up to Calistoga, valley floor for lushness and hillside for backbone.
What sets the house style is hang time. The fruit stays on the vine longer than most growers will risk, which deepens color and softens tannin, and it's why a young Caymus drinks well the day you open it rather than a decade out.
2021 was Napa's drought vintage — eight inches of rain against a normal thirty-plus, and a crop down 20 to 60 percent depending on the site. Small berries, thick skins, more concentration per bottle.
PAIRINGS :
| Dry-aged ribeye | the fat cuts the ripe tannin, the char meets the mocha |
| Braised short ribs | cocoa and cassis against long-cooked beef |
| Aged gouda | caramel in the cheese picks up the vanilla oak |
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