2012 | Araujo Estate | Eisele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Red Wine: 2012 | Araujo Estate | Eisele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2012 is a dense and powerful wine built for the long haul. The nose is opulent and ripe with cassis, blackberry, forest floor and subtle toasty oak.

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Producer: Araujo Estate

Ratings: WA | 97 JS | 98

Vintage: 2012

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon

Country/Region: United States, California

The 2012 is a dense and powerful wine built for the long haul. The nose is opulent and ripe with cassis, blackberry, forest floor and subtle toasty oak. On the palate it is full-bodied yet velvety and has an endlessly complex finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard, 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, is a relatively powerful statement from the new owners. Dense ruby/purple in color, with an exceptional nose of crme de cassis, a touch of mulberry and spice. The oak is completely obscured by the lavish, concentrated, ripe fruit and multi-dimensional mid-palate that expands beautifully, but with no sense of heaviness. The wine is rich and full-bodied, but with velvety tannin and stunning purple and black fruits. This is a beauty, with savoriness thats hard to articulate. The finish goes on for a good 45+ seconds.

• James Suckling: The aromas to this wine are very complex and brooding with blackcurrants, sage and spearmint. Souis bois and wet earth then turn to black fruits. Entrancing nose. This is full-bodied, yet tight and focused with compressed tannins and a long finish. Very intense volcanic sea salt to the wines. A much more subtle and mind-provoking style.

Producer Information

Araujo Estate is a Napa Valley estate particularly associated with its noted Eisele vineyard and the flagship Cabernet Sauvignon grown there. It is regarded as one of California’s cult wineries and was included in Robert Parker’s 2005 book, “The World’s Greatest Wine Estates”. The 38-acre (15-hectare) Eisele vineyard is located on an old alluvial fan near the northern end of the Napa Valley, just east of Calistoga. It is protected by the Palisades Mountain to the north and cooled by westerly breezes, and produces a low-yielding crop of very concentrated fruit. It was originally planted in the 1880s to Zinfandel and Riesling, with the first Cabernet not planted until 1964. Now, 75 percent of the vineyard is planted to Bordeaux red varieties mostly Cabernet Sauvignon with some Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Merlot. Araujo’s winery is a barn-type construction on the vineyard, with cellars built into the hillside. Grapes are sorted and transferred without pumping to stainless steel or concrete fermenters. Individual lots are aged in French oak barrels before the final blends are assembled. The estate was founded in 1990, when Bart and Daphne Araujo bought the Eisele vineyard, which already had a strong reputation for its Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. The company has been owned by the Pinault family’s Groupe Artemis since 2013. Other Pinault/Artemis vineyards include Chteau Latour in Bordeaux, Clos de Tart and Domaine d’Eugnie (formerly Domaine Ren Engel) in Burgundy, and Chteau-Grillet in Condrieu (in France’s northern Rhne Valley).