Cabernet sauvignon is the most planted grape in the world and is popular in many wine countries around the world. The grape ripens late and requires some heating, but otherwise can be grown in virtually all regions, which it also does. It is cultivated in many different environments and are therefore good to illustrate the local klimas effect on the wine’s style. Bordeaux is approximately the northernmost, where it can ripen.
Cabernet sauvignon is rich in tannin and color. This means that the wines on the cabernet sauvignon requires a longer period of storage, before they should be drunk than f.ex. wines of merlot. It also means that they are often quite well-suited to store. Good cabernet sauvignon wines can easily be saved to 20 years. The most typical characteristic is the blackcurrant. Solbærrene can be overwhelming, especially in cheap wines from overseas countries, while the flavor becomes more subdued with age. The great wines from both California and Burgundy develops with age elegant wine with velvety tannins and notes of cedar and tobacco.
An exciting tasting where bundniveauet was high, and where each of the top wines showed its full potential. But also a tasting, which showed that, in general, value for money in the three countries, and where for a little over 100 dollars can get a very nice and honest wine with lots of concentration and intensity. Conversely, a lack of the best wines still the last depth, you will find in the largest Napa and Bordeaux wines.
We tasted in this test 45 cabernet sauvignon wines from Chile, Argentina and south Africa.
Sena 2016, Chile.
96 6 stars the BEST of WINE
Vinspecialisten | 1995 kr.
Easy urtet in the nose. Full-bodied and very intense in taste with plenty of black currant, solbærblade, tobacco, spices and vanilla. Many layers and a very elegant beautiful wine, showing the big potential there is in Chile. Long persistent finish.
alcohol content: 13,5%
Errazuriz Don Maximiano 2016, Chile.
95 6 stars
Vinspecialisten | 650 dkk.
Intense spicy in the nose. Lots of solbærnoter, tobacco, spices and vanilla. Nice ripeness and balance. A long completion. Nice wine!
alcohol content: 14%
Errazuriz Don Maximiano 2015, Chile.
94 5 stars
Vinspecialisten | 650 dkk.
Nice eukalyptusnæse. Very nice balanced with a nice concentration. Nice depth and length. Juicy, long ending.
alcohol content: 14%
Don Melchior Cabernet Sauvignon 2013, Chile.
92 5 stars
Coop | 799 kr.
Portvinsnoter in the nose. Concentrated and intense in flavor, with ripe blackcurrant, blackberry, sweet licorice and vanilla. Relatively mature in the expression, with a neat finish.
alcohol content: 14,5%
Santa Rita Casa Real Cabernet Sauvignon 2012, Chile.
92 5 stars
MENY | 499 kr.
< Strong intensity that jumps out of the glass. Here are blackcurrants, blackberries, plums and a glorious urtet character. Glorious juicy in the mouth, where the acid provides life and coolness. Great wine that is drinking well already as a young man.
alcohol content: 14%
Las Acequias Cabernet Sauvignon 2013, Argentina.
91 5 stars BEST BUY
Holte vinlager | 100 kr. retail price
Nice complexity in the nose with ripe fruit, a little beautiful developed notes and chocolate. The dish comes again in the taste to appear beautifully integrated and the fruit in beautiful balance. Tannins to bite, acid to provide freshness and as a fruit that stands in beautiful balance. The sun and the moon must be right. Nice length, which underlines the wine’s life, and complexity. Beautiful.
alcohol content: 13,5%
Errazuriz Don Maximiano Villa 2016, Chile.
91 4 stars
Vinspecialisten | 395 kr.
Solbærnoter in the nose. Nicely balanced wine with red berries, pepper, spices, tobacco and vanilla. Classic well-made not quite the same concentration as its big brother. Fresh neat finish.
alcohol content: 13%
Catena Cabernet Sauvignon 2015, Argentina.
91 5 stars GOOD BUY
Philipsonwine.com | 100 kr. offer price
Spicy, slightly warm nose. Black currant, tobacco, black pepper and vanilla. Neat and well-made wine with a spicy finish.
alcohol content: 13%
the Clos des Fous Würm Cabernet Sauvignon 2013, Chile.
91 5 stars
Bichel | 295 kr. offer price
Restrained with a great fullness and warm, ripe fruit. Compact and dense fruit, enshrined in the tannin and acid. Opens up in the taste and comes creeping with the good charm, but not as heavy and warm as the others in the round. Nice balanced finish.
alcohol content: 14,5%
the Cono Sur Cabernet Sauvignon 20 Barrels 2015, Chile.
91 5 stars
MENY | 150 kr. offer price
Intense, ripe nose. Lots of black berries, dripping with sweet spices and vanilla in the taste. Nice acid and freshness. Neat, fresh finish.
alcohol content: 14%
Thomas Rydberg is Ekstra vinanmelder and writer. The owner and editor of the magazine DinVinGuide as well as the magazine Whisky & Rom. He driver also AltomSpanskVin.dk, de100bedstevine.dk as well as holding a series of lectures and teaches in the wine.
Thomas has a diploma (WSET) in wine and spirits from London, and is pt. in the second part of the Master of Wine. Besides skrivegerningen he condemns by a number of the largest international wine & spirits competitions. See more information on the thomasrydberg.dk.
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