I love Cathy Corison’s fine and elegant Napa cabernets and will be writing a full-length
feature on her and her lovely wines in the not too distant future. Her most recent releases hail
from the 2010 vintage and are...
I love Cathy Corison’s fine and elegant Napa cabernets and will be writing a full-length
feature on her and her lovely wines in the not too distant future. Her most recent releases hail
from the 2010 vintage and are excellent. Here 2010 Napa Valley bottling tips the scales at a very
civilized 13.6 percent alcohol and offers up a superb bouquet of red and black cherries, gentle
cigar smoke, incipient notes of allspice and fresh nutmeg, a lovely base of soil, a touch of violets
and a judicious framing of cedary new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure
and nicely balanced, with a fine core of fruit, plenty of firm, ripe tannins and excellent length and
grip on the youthful and very promising finish. I would give this classic Napa cabernet a solid decade in the cellar to start to blossom- its true apogee is probably still twenty years out from the
vintage! 2024-2060.