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Rudd Crossroads Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Napa Valley - Rudd Crossroads Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 (750ml)
Price: $109.99
Sale Price: $84.95
| Producer | Rudd Crossroads Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Napa Valley |
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| Vintage | 2019 |
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| Sku | 31007 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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Rudd Crossroads Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville Napa Valley Description
Rudd Crossroads Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville 2019
After a perfect 2018 growing season, we did not know what to expect from Mother Nature in 2019, but she did not disappoint!
The beginning of the 2019 growing season had plenty of rainfall, followed by a long, warm summer that offered few extreme heat events and ample foggy mornings. The long, relatively mild finish to the season helped preserve freshness and finesse in the fruit. The Cabernet Sauvignon harvest started at the Oakville Estate on September 25th with our last picks coming in mid-October. This gradual growing season allowed for abundant hang time providing us with great color, structure, and plush tannins.
The 2019 Crossroads Cabernet Sauvignon is energetic, lively, and bursting to show you everything it has to offer. This vintage expression of Cabernet Sauvignon fills your nose with black cherries, dark cocoa nib, and a hint of baked sweetness. These familiar aromas from our Oakville Estate are also found on the first sip, with a pop of ripe plum and savory cooking herbs that are reminiscent of the fresh outdoors on a trek through the Tahoe mountains. That combination of luscious fruit and fresh herbs is completed by the plush, velvety tannins on the finish. With every sip, the 2019 Crossroads Cabernet Sauvignon shows how a well-crafted companion wine should taste — balanced, structured, and unbelievably delicious. Do not hesitate to enjoy upon release!
Nose: The wine has a complex and layered nose, with a wide range of aromas. Baking spices, cocoa nib, black cherries.
Palate: The palate is full-bodied and structured, with flavors of ripe fruit, savory herbs, and plush tannins.
Finish: The finish is long and lingering, with notes of dark chocolate, tobacco, cedar, and spice.
Appellation: Oakville
Farming: 100% Estate fruit, organically grown
Harvest Dates: Starting September 25th, lasting 24 days, 24 separate picks
Aging: 54% Neutral French Oak, 46% New French Oak
Pairing
The 2019 Crossroads Cabernet Sauvignon is a well-balanced and complex wine that is perfect for drinking with grilled meats, roasted vegetables, or rich pasta dishes. It is also a great wine to cellar for several years, as it will continue to develop in the bottle.
Winery
Samantha Rudd has spent most of her life at Rudd Estate and has always felt a deep connection to the land here, with over 62 acres of planted vines in the premier Oakville and Mt. Veeder appellations.
Samantha is embracing the entire Estate by reintroducing the Crossroads label to craft wines that reflect the unique geological properties and winemaking techniques available to her winegrowing team.
As stewards of exceptional land, Rudd Estate seeks to craft wines that reflect the ultimate expression of our world-class terroir – respecting traditions of the past, challenging the present, and imagining future possibilities. We dare to think differently. Our team members work together in the relentless and uncompromising pursuit of a shared singular goal: to achieve the absolute pinnacle of our land’s potential.
It is our intention that Rudd Estate embodies a sense of timelessness, passing down expertise and commitment to our vision through generations, with each generation earning the right to steward the land and accept the responsibility to do better than the preceding one.
Wine Spectator: 93 Points
