2009 Cabernet Sauvignon Kronos

Wine Details
Producer

Corison

Place of Origin

United States

St. Helena

Napa

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Cabernet Sauvignon

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2019 - 2029

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These are two drop-dead gorgeous wines from Cathy Corison, one of Napa Valley's most overlooked winemakers. Stylistically, the 2009s are a bit bigger and richer than has typically been the case here. The 2009s may surprise long-time Corison fans for their size, but wines are impeccably balanced and pure.

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I sensed that the 2010 growing season played into the Corison style. "It was a long, cool season and the grapes were slow to ripen," noted Cathy Corison in March. "The fruit was lower in alcohol but phenolically ripe, and the wines have been very aromatic early in their life. But it's not a fleshy vintage." Interestingly, Corison describes her 2008s and "riper and fuller" than her 2009s. The latter vintage has a firm backbone, she went on, while the 2008s are lusher and more evolved.

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Cathy Corison describes 2009 as a typical Napa Valley vintage. "There's not a lot to talk about," she said. "It was a normal harvest with no rush to pick." Even the Kronos vineyard came in on September 27, or a full two weeks before the damaging rains.