2017 Keplinger "Oakville Ranch Vineyard" Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon
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$139.99
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Jeb Dunnuck
Reviewed January 2021A primary beast of a wine, the 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Ranch Vineyard comes from a great vineyard in Oakville and is 91% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. Offering full-bodied richness and an elegant, layered mouthfeel, it has a wonderful bouquet of blue fruits, graphite, crushed rocks, and integrated oak. It has the more elegant style of the 2017 vintage, but it certainly doesn’t come up short on concentration, richness, or length. The vintage doesn’t get much better.
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Professional Reviews
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James Suckling
This is so good. Real. It’s full-bodied with very soft, polished tannins and so much character. Herbs, plums, currants and garrigue. Goes on for minutes. A little tight now, but so much in the center palate. Give it time to open. Shows the excellence of 2017, if you picked right.
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Vinous
The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Ranch is very pretty and expressive. Helen Keplinger found a way to maintain a good deal of freshness in her 2017, no small feat in this very challenging year. Today, the 2017 is very young, with quite a bit of primary fruit and not a whole lot of aromatic nuance. Time in bottle should take care of that. This polished, classy Cabernet is quite impressive and promising. (AG)
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Wine Spectator
Ripe, fresh and very inviting, with crushed plum and blackberry notes leading the way, showing streaks of singed vanilla, sweet bay leaf and menthol. The ample grip is very fine-grained, melding nicely with the fruit through the finish. (JM)
Details
| Origin | Napa Valley, California, United States |
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| Type/Varietal | Cabernet Sauvignon and Blends |
| SKU | 1599223 |