2001 Cabernet Sauvignon Tychson Hill

Wine Details
Producer

Colgin

Place of Origin

United States

St. Helena

Napa

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Cabernet Sauvignon

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These are two brilliant wines from Ann Colgin, Joe Wender and Mark Aubert, their winemaker at the time. The 2001s were very slow to get out of the gate, but the potential was always there. Today, that potential is clearly evident in wines of towering presence that capture the very best 2001 had to give.

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This wine was tasted as part of a Colgin retrospective held at the Villa d'Este Wine Symposium in November 2015.

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This wine was tasted as part of Colgin Cabernet Sauvignon Tychson Hill – A Complete Retrospective: 2000-2012

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Ann Colgin and husband Joe Wender purchased this property from the David Arthur family on a hilltop above Lake Hennessey in 1998 and planted syrah and Bordeaux red varieties in 2000.Winemaker Mark Aubert describes the soil as "thin and austere, about 60% rocks."Barrel tastings of the 2002 wines from these vines suggest that this site will be the source of great wines from the outset. The Colgin reds have very high alcohol and high pHs-in the neighborhood of 4.0 for the 2001s and 2002s. They should be knockouts in their youth but should also age well based on their huge concentration and tannin levels. (I suspect, however, that many Colgin wanabees without the requisite extract and tannic support will lose their fruit and fall on their faces in a much shorter time frame, especially where cellar temperatures are not sufficiently low and care is not paid to sulfur levels at bottling.)The Colgin 2001s remained on their skins for 40 to 50 days, and the 2002s for 55 days, with a total of about 30 pumpovers per vat. These wines are some of the North Coast's most flamboyantly rich examples.

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Winemaker Mark Aubert compared the Colgin 2001s to the legendary '47s and '61s made in Bordeaux, and was confident that this crop of Colgin wines would go on for decades in bottle. Ordinarily, I would take such statements with a grain of salt, but there's no arguing with these wines' extraordinary material. My tasting ended with a look at two lots of 2002 cabernet sauvignon from the new planting around the winery, on rocky, volcanic soil above Lake Hennessey at an altitude of 1,200 to 1,400 feet. Both offered near-exotic creaminess and sweetness, with varietally accurate cassis, currant leaf and tobacco aromas and flavors complicated by an element of iron. And, finally, there was an early taste of the estate's first - and highly promising - essay into syrah (see the note below). Ann Colgin was worried about whether the introduction of a syrah would muddy the winery's image as a top cabernet producer, but this is a problem most producers would like to have. Alain Raynaud, owner of Chateau Quinault in St. Emilion and former president of Bordeaux's Union des Grands Crus, is now consulting here.

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My early look at the young 2001s of Colgin Cellars gave clear evidence that this vintage holds out great potential for North Coast red wine from Bordeaux varieties. Winemaker Mark Aubert describes 2001 as "one of the most concentrated vintages I've ever worked with. A cool August was followed by a slow warm-up from the beginning of September and then alternating cool and warm spells without extreme heat." The crop level was low and the tannins were sweet, said Aubert, who did extended macerations lasting as long as 50 days. But the '99s and '00s are strong years here too: among the wines I tasted in late winter were the first vintage of Ann Colgin's new Tychson Hill cabernet (from an east-facing hillside vineyard above St. Helena) and the inaugural release of her Cariad red wine, a Bordeaux blend from low-yielding vines on the hillier upper portion of Madrona Ranch, owned by David Abreu.