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White Rock Laureate Cabernet Sauvignon
2004
Cabernet Sauvignon
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United States
Meat
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When it comes to making top-flight Cabernet Sauvignon, few places do it as well as Napa Valley. Its warm summers, tempered by a moderate maritime influence that brings in morning fog, allow lateripening Cabernet grapes to fully mature into October. This wine comes from the volcanic hillside soils of the Stag's Leap palisades in the Vaca Mountains, which form the eastern border of Napa Valley.
Red meat is a natural match for Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends. Grilled steak, lamb rib chops or roast beef are an ideal accompaniment to complex, artfully blended reds like this one.
White Rock Vineyards is named for the white volcanic ash soils of its hillside vineyards. The estate, located in the southern foothills of the Stag's Leap Range, was founded by Dr. J. Pettingill in the 1870s but had fallen into disrepair before it was purchased in 1977 by the Vandendriessche family and subsequently renovated. Today the wines are made by the Vandendriessche's son Christopher, who trained in Spain, France and locally in Napa Valley.
"Laureate" is White Rock Vineyard's flagship red wine. A Bordeaux-style blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (75%), Cabernet Franc (20%), Merlot (3%) and Petit Verdot (2%), it has decadent aromas of violet, black currant, blackberry, bay leaf, cola, black licorice and pepper and generous black fruit, cedar, chocolate and toast flavors with a sturdy, somewhat tannic structure.