1999 Corison Cabernet Sauvignon St. Helena
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Tasting notes
Deep ruby. Aromas of candied cassis and peppermint. Sweet, dense and light on its feet, with lovely energy and intensity to its youthful flavors of cassis, boysenberry and licorice. Very suave and seamless cabernet with a long, tactile, very subtle finish featuring excellent verve and melted tannins. I supplemented my vertical tasting by sampling this wine during my March visit to Corison a couple weeks later, and only 375-milliliter bottles remained of this vintage. But my bottle came across as amazingly youthful.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
About the producer
Cathy Corison is one of Napa’s leading lights – a matriarch of the region who crafts defiantly elegant Cabernet Sauvignon from her old vines on the benchland between Rutherford and St Helena. These refined, long-ageing wines are some of Napa’s most impressive.