Description

Red Wine: 2019 | Rivers-Marie | Panek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Lush and inviting, with succulent loganberry and blackberry puree streaming through, laced with a mouthwatering apple wood note.

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Producer: Rivers-Marie

Ratings: WA | 95 VN | 95

Vintage: 2019

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14.5%

Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon

Country/Region: United States, California

Lush and inviting, with succulent loganberry and blackberry puree streaming through, laced with a mouthwatering apple wood note. Reveals a lovely floral backdrop and a very fine-grained, alder-infused finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Deep purple-black in color, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Panek Vineyard wafts gracefully out of the glass with fragrant scents of tilled earth, violets, star anise and chocolate mint, over a core of blackcurrant cordial, plum preserves and blackberry pie, with a touch of black olives. Full-bodied, suitably rich and yet elegantly played, the palate has an impressive texture of wonderfully fine-grained tannins and bags of freshness, finishing with great length and energy.

• Vinous: The 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Panek Vineyard is a dense, muscular wine. In 2019, the Panek has quite a bit of power and muscle, as if all the signatures of the site have been amplified to the maximum. There’s quite a bit of tannin, too.

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.