Cali 351
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Cali 351 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $49
This is a big, vital Cabernet, rich in fruit and sweetly smoked oak, and the tannins are classic Napa Valley, softly complex and ripe. Really strikes you for the delicious flavors of blackberries, cherries, currants, licorice, mocha and dried herbs. Now–2013.
— S.H.
(10/1/2010)
Cali 351 2008 Founder's Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
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- $75
This is an amazingly rich Cabernet, packed with classic Napa blackberry, blueberry and dark chocolate flavors. It’s opulent even by California standards, and is a little sweet. With firm, pronounced tannins, it’s gritty in texture. Defines Napa ripeness, but at this point it’s rude and jammy. Give it a good six years. Could be one for the long haul.
— S.H.
(12/15/2011)
Cali 351 2006 Chardonnay (Napa Valley)
- Editors' Choice
- $27
This is a classy Chardonnay. Grown 1,200 feet above Calistoga and fairly well-oaked in new barrels, it’s rich and complex, with flavors of grilled tropical fruits and toasted meringue. The structure is greatly improved by a crisp, minerally edge of acidity.
— S.H.
(12/15/2008)
Cali 351 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa Valley)
- $45
This is a very rich, and perhaps ageable, Cabernet Sauvignon, made with one-fifth Cabernet Franc. Grown from Calistoga grapes, it’s soft enough to drink now, with chocolaty flavors of blackberries, cherries, currants and mint. Lots of new oak adds caramel and smoky vanilla, but the wine is powerful enough to handle them. Give it through 2010 to integrate.
— S.H.
(12/15/2008)
Cali 351 2007 Chardonnay (Napa Valley)
- $30
This is one of the drier, steelier Chardonnays on the market. It shows flavors of Meyer lemons, limes and tart white peaches, with a tantalizing acidity that makes the mouth water. Trades opulence for elegance, a nice wine for roasted salmon and sweet summer corn.
— S.H.
(10/1/2010)
Cali 351 2007 Sauvignon Blanc (Yountville)
- $20
Made from Yountville grapes and mainly stainless-steel fermented, with a little oak influence, this is quite a good wine. It’s savory and refreshingly dry, with delicious flavors of citrus fruits, figs, peaches, honeydew melons, green apples and vanilla.
— S.H.
(12/15/2008)
Cali 351 2008 Sauvignon Blanc (Napa Valley)
- $20
Bone dry and tartly crisp in acidity, this wine’s lemongrass and grapefruit flavors are showing their age. It’s just beginning to break up. Pretty good, but drink this year.
— S.H.
(10/1/2010)
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