Quick Wine Review - Robert Mondavi Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2008

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🗓️ 17 September 2011

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0:00.0	Hey this is Elizabeth Schneider and here's your quick wine review from Wine for Normal People.
0:07.0	Robert Wandaves Napa Valley Cabernet 7 Yon vintage 2008.
0:14.2	Average retail price is 2199.
0:17.0	Now the grapes for this wine were grown in the Napa Valley, California,
0:20.4	which is typically known for Big, cabernet seven yon.
0:24.0	This wine is not a hundred percent cabernet, it's more of a bored dough blend.
0:28.0	85 percent cabernet seven yon, 7% or low, 5% cabernet fronc and that a little bit of Surah and Petit for dough.
0:34.8	It's a great blend, and it is 100% from Napa Valley.
0:38.8	40% of the wine comes from a very famous fender called the Tochalon Vineyard which produces wines
0:45.1	that have a phenomenal combination of power yet they're very soft. So it's a very
0:50.6	famous wonderful vineyard for Cabernet 7 yon.
0:55.0	On the sniff, first thing that hits you is that 15% alcohol.
0:59.0	It's pretty high in alcohol.
1:00.0	So it'll give you a tickle up your nose when you smell it. But after you get past that, the
1:05.0	blackberry, boysenberry, blood orange scents, some green pepper, green herbs, very complex
1:10.8	wine. On a second sniff, I got some vanilla, some leather,
1:15.1	licorish, and a very nice smell. It's kind of what I would expect out of an apple
1:19.2	wine, that fruit and then some other secondary flavors from the oak.
1:25.0	On the taste, it was a little unexpected.
1:28.0	It's a great medium style cabernet.
1:30.0	I expected it to be a little bit brawnier, but it wasn't. Lots of blackberry, black cherry, some plum
1:35.7	flavors and a light floral note too. And here there was into the taste a lot of tobacco,
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