Fielding Hills Cabernet Franc 06
winery: Fielding Hills
Fielding Hills Cabernet Franc 06 received 92 points from Wine Spectator Insider (11/12/08) : "Lithe, supple and brimming with raspberry, mulberry and floral aromas and flavors, this glides over the tongue like silk and remains effusive and expressive through the long finish. Drink now through 2014. - H.S."
For the second vintage in a row, Fielding Hills' "sleeper wine" is the Cab Franc. Fantastic aromas of baking spice, licorice, fragrant red berries, and distant cedar smoke.
The supple flavors offer and perfect combination of fresh and jammy raspberry with darker berry and spicy currant emerging. A trace of minerality shines through the creamy finish, and you're left thinking of the myriad dishes you could pair with this stellar Cab Franc.
The 2005 vintage received 91 points from Wine Spectator.
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Previous Vintage tasting Notes
The 2005 Cabernet Franc is a real standout in Fielding's finest vintage yet. Ripe, with a dark, almost black color, showing myriad fruit flavors and hints of mineral and garrigue-like dried herbs in nose and on palate. Characteristic Cabernet Franc hints of pencil lead.
The 2005 Fielding Hills Cabernet Franc's scents are complex, incorporating slate, pencil lead, restrained red and black fruit and lots of mineral notes. Flavors are totally ripe sweet black fruit highlighted by white pepper and tremendously appealing desert herbs/garrigue. Plum, black cherry, black raspberry, sage, marjoram, field dust, white pepper, and licorice. The finish of this wine is smooth, enhancing the complexity of the wine by providing contrast - the liltingly refreshing acidity is balanced against the lush richness of ripe fruit.
2004 Vintage 91 points, Wine Enthusiast -- Lush, dense, crowdpleasing and rare. Made with Estate fruit from Fielding's Riverbend Vineyard. The wine is 76% Cabernet Franc, 8% Syrah, 8% Cabernet Sauvignon, & 8% Merlot. It was aged in 76% new oak barrels for 19 months. The barrels were a mix of American and French oak. Only 28 cases were made.
