2006 Spring Mountain District Cabernet Sauvignon
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(15.2% alcohol) Good deep, saturated ruby. Cool aromas of dark berries and licorice. Juicy and perfumed but a bit youthfully musclebound, with an herbal component to go with the blackberry, cassis and violet flavors. Nicely high-pitched but also quite tightly wound and in need of cellaring. There's very good depth here to support the wine's serious tannins. I find this more harmonious than the 2005 version.
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Blue fruit, spring flower, charcoal, and crushed rock aromas emerge from the 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon Spring Mountain. This wine possesses terrific ripeness, beautiful, surprisingly sweet, well-integrated tannins, plenty of black and blue fruit flavors, full body, and good harmony and overall equilibrium. It can be drunk now or cellared for two decades or more. While this is one of the most stunning wineries in Jess Jackson's portfolio, production is very limited, making the wines difficult to find. Production in 2006 ranged from 158 cases of the Diamond Mountain, to 669 cases of the Mt. Veeder (which happens to be my favorite). Lokoya's wines are made by talented winemaker Christopher Carpenter, who also makes the wines at Cardinale. Available through Vin Lux Fine Wines, tel.(866) 462-4641; Fax (866) 853-1707; www.vinluxfinewines.com