Happy Cellar Saturday! It's that wonderful time, the first Saturday of the month where I raid the cellar for something at least a decade in the making. Tonight, I've opened a bottle of a recent purchase from Wines Till Sold Out (so it hasn't been in my cellar long) but one that's been aging for a while and it's from a stellar Napa vintage. The 2012 Anana Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon is a 100% Cabernet from the Coombsville and Oakville AVAs of Napa Valley, so let's see how this wine has developed.
The wine is a rich, inky color, as you'd expect from a big Napa Cabernet. Take a whiff, and you are treated to an explosion of jamminess with lots of ripe fruit over earthy undertones, like eating a blackberry cobbler at a remote forest campsite. Take a sip and you quickly learn this wine isn't nearly as rustic as you thought, with bright fruit giving way to some tar and smoke that will have you thinking of Bordeaux. This finish is exceptionally dry, again a nod to the best of the old world Bordeaux style.
Overall, I would rate this wine a solid 9, as it's drinking beautifully now, but will likely reach it's peak within the next few years. This wine would pair well with steaks, lamb or even hearty salmon dishes. Tonight I am enjoying this wine with something a bit more wild, a bison chuckeye steak grilled mid-rare with some steamed asparagus and hollandaise. Cheers!
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