Gan Eden Wines Cabernet Sauvignon |
1997 Limited Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Mendocino County
A great wine with steak, roast or chops, and it should keep improving for many years to come. This wine also does particularly well paired with a hot corned beef brisket, as its acidity stands up well to the spicy quality of the corned beef.
Our 1997 GAN EDEN Limited Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is a wine of surpassing elegance and style. 100% varietal, it was created entirely from fruit grown at Eaglepoint ranch. The vineyards are the highest and steepest in Mendocino County. This is true high-mountain Cabernet Sauvignon. It is highly extracted, and this makes for a long-lived style of wine which is not for everybody, tight and tannic. However, 1997, as a vintage, was noted for supple tannins, and it worked to favor accessibility in these grapes. The wine, though tannic, is drinkable now, even while indicating enhanced ageability. It is not as tight as it would have been in a normal year, allowing some fruit character to manifest itself even in a wine with so little time in bottle (barely a year and a half- very little from the standpoint of mountain Cab). |