2006 Cabernet Sauvignon Paradise Hills Vineyard
United States
Yountville
Napa
Red
Cabernet Sauvignon
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2023 - 2033
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This wine was tasted as part a complete retrospective going back to the debut 1999 vintage.
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By now, Claude Blankiet is probably tired of explaining that his Rive Droite bottling is "another wine," as opposed to a "second wine." At the same time, though, the Blankiets have cut the price of their Rive Droite to $90, which happens to be the same price as their merlot four years ago. Blankiet told me he tossed out a lot of raisins in 2007, "because at a certain point in the growing season the vines just collapsed." He describes the wines from this vintage as more exotic and liqueur-like, and as having less floral lift, than the 2006s, which he says are drier and more classic. Indeed, the young 2007 is rock-solid and potentially outstanding, but the flagship wine in 2006 is one of the stars of that vintage as well.
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When Claude Blankiet hired consulting enologist Michel Rolland, he simply asked Rolland to help him make the best wine he could. The result will be a flagship Medoc blend based on cabernet sauvignon, and a second, merlot-based wine (Blankiet calls it "another wine," rather than a second wine) that will continue to be called Rive Droite. New winemaker Martha McClellan, who came aboard here just before the 2006 vintage, has crafted one of my early candidates for wine of the vintage. Her methods include extended maceration (the juice spends up to 60 days on the skins), later harvesting than was practiced here when Helen Turley made the wines, and some adjustments in the choice of barrels: whereas previous vintages were essentially made entirely in high-toast Taransaud barrels, McClelland has added some medium-toast barriques as well as some Darnajou barrels.
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