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| GROWERS BLEND CABERNET FRANC 2020 VQA Niagara Peninsula |
| Vintage Assessments Tasting Note |
Producer |
TAWSE |
| Deep purple-red colour, the nose shows lots of crancherry fruit with some spicy, mineral-tinged, sandalwood notes. Dry, medium bodied, nicely structured, gently cedary, fairly intense, bright, plum-crancherry-raspberry flavours with a lingering, high acid, faintly savoury, still youthful finish. It has 13% alcohol, 2 g/L residual sugar and a hefty 6.15 g/L total acidity. Aged for 16 months in French oak barrels, this 2020 Cabernet Franc is slightly savoury and still a tad tight - it should benefit with another year or so of aging. A REPEAT of the recommended 2020 (***) was released on July 22, 2023 at $29.95. |
CSPC |
284570 |
| Type |
Red Table Wine |
| Agent |
Taw Win |
| Country |
Canada |
| Region |
Ontario |
| Rating |
***(91 points)
Dry, Bright, Crancherry |
| LCBO Text |
Status |
Recommended by Vintage Assessments! |
| TASTING NOTE: A generous, ripe year for Niagara growers, this 2020 cabernet franc puts the vintage, and talented winemaking, on full display in a style that's somewhere between the Loire and Bordeaux. Absent are the variety's leafyherbal pyrazines, traded in for riper red and black fruit, while wood is a minor contribution to the overall profile. Length and depth are very good, and in the final summary, this is a sharp value in one of Ontario's strongest varietal categories. Drink now-2028 or so. Tasted July 2023. Score - 91 (John Szabo, MS, winealign.com) |
Price |
$ 29.95 |
| Bottle Size |
750 mL |
| Tasting Date |
vintages release - September 21, 2024 |
| Cases bought |
80 (12 bottles per case) |
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Score:
- Not Presented * Below Average
*+ OK
** Good
**+ Excellent
*** Outstanding
***+ Exceptional
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