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Red Wine: 2016 | Rivers-Marie | Cabernet Sauvignon

Starting with the least expensive release, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley makes you wonder why you would spend more on the top cuves.

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Producer: Rivers-Marie

Ratings: WA | 92 VN | 92

Vintage: 2016

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14.3%

Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon

Country/Region: United States, California

Starting with the least expensive release, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley makes you wonder why you would spend more on the top cuves. This full-bodied, fruit-forward, yet deep, layered beauty gives up complex notes of crme de cassis, graphite, incense, and candied violets.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley comes sashaying out of the glass with pretty notions of red roses, chocolate box, aniseed and black raspberries over a core of blackcurrants and black cherries. Full-bodied, firm and finely grained, it has great freshness and bags of juicy fruit, finishing with a minty kick.

• Vinous: The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley) is a gorgeous appellation-level wine from Rivers-Marie. Dark, dense and explosive, the 2016 hits the palate with serious depth and intensity in every direction. Black cherry, plum, licorice, leather, smoke, tobacco and incense all run through this potent, somber Cabernet Sauvignon. Fruit sources are Larkmead, Panek, Lore and Kennedy.

Producer Information

Rivers-Marie is a wine producer based in Calistoga, Napa Valley, but primarily known for its small-production Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines. It was founded by husband-and-wife team Thomas Rivers Brown and Genevieve Marie Walsh, and made its first vintage of Pinot Noir in 2002. Rivers-Marie wines are sold exclusively through a mailing list, with annual production ranging from 60 to 600 cases per label. Winemaker Thomas Brown got his start in the wine industry working under Ehren Jordan at Turley Wine Cellars. In 2002, he had the opportunity to purchase fruit from the respected Summa Vineyard, a two-hectare (six-acre) site planted in 1978. Brown purchased the Summa Vineyard outright in 2010 and today produces two single-vineyard Pinot Noir wines from the vineyard, as well as single-vineyard Pinot Noir wines from Occidental Ridge Vineyard, Kanzler Vineyard and Silver Eagle Vineyard. Rivers-Marie began making Chardonnay in 2007, and today makes single-vineyard wines from the Thieriot and Joy Road vineyards, as well as a generic Sonoma Coast cuve. The winery also makes several Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon wines, including single-vineyard bottlings from Calistoga, St Helena and Oakville. As well as Rivers-Marie, Brown is involved in numerous winemaking projects across California.