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The July 2018 Internet-Only Auction Part 4
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"The 1999 (Gemstone's third vintage, but the first I've tasted) is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Petit Verdot. There are 350 cases of this beautifully textured, elegant, concentrated effort offering notes of creme de cassis, graphite, and vanilla. It possesses a saturated ruby/purple color, medium to full body, and power allied with elegance. This is an impressive, pure, surprisingly stylish offering that merits significant attention. I will be anxious to see what this winery accomplishes in 2000 and 2001."
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"The 1999 (Gemstone's third vintage, but the first I've tasted) is a blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, and 4% Petit Verdot. There are 350 cases of this beautifully textured, elegant, concentrated effort offering notes of creme de cassis, graphite, and vanilla. It possesses a saturated ruby/purple color, medium to full body, and power allied with elegance. This is an impressive, pure, surprisingly stylish offering that merits significant attention. I will be anxious to see what this winery accomplishes in 2000 and 2001."
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The fourth-largest wine producer in the world, led by California. American fine wine is defined by ripe, expressive fruit and a spirit of innovation, with Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon among the most sought-after wines globally.
California's most prestigious wine region, celebrated worldwide for opulent, structured Cabernet Sauvignon. Diverse soils and mountain-to-valley-floor sites yield wines of remarkable ripeness, power and longevity.
Yountville is a sub-AVA in central Napa Valley, California, producing balanced, structured Cabernet Sauvignon of ripe dark fruit and firm yet refined tannins, blending power with elegance.
An aromatic red grape lending perfume, red fruit and a leafy, savory edge. It thrives in the Loire and as a key blending partner in Bordeaux, especially Saint-Emilion.
The world's most planted premium red grape, yielding deeply colored, tannic and structured wines with cassis, cedar and graphite notes. Firm tannins and acidity make it exceptionally age-worthy, whether as a varietal or the backbone of a Bordeaux blend.
Produces plush, supple, fruit-forward reds with plum and chocolate notes. Softer and earlier-maturing than Cabernet, it adds flesh and roundness to blends and stars in Right Bank Bordeaux.
A deeply colored, tannic Bordeaux blending grape adding color, structure and floral, spicy complexity in small proportions.