In California’s Sonoma County “it’s a good time” to be a “big, expensive, red-meat” Cabernet Sauvignon, said Fred Tasker in The Miami Herald. These wines fared well at a recent competition celebrating the Sonoma harvest. What the winners had in common were “intense, concentrated flavors”. These winning wines were still relatively young, but give them five years and they should “mature into complexity.”
2006 Stryker Sonoma Estate, Alexander Valley ($50). The best of the bunch, this Cab tastes of “black raspberry liqueur, licorice, and bittersweet chocolate.”
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