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Showket 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon (Oakville)
- Cellar Selection
- $75
They must have let some of the grapes shrivel, because there’s a blast of raisins. They’re good raisins, the sweet, curranty kind that taste drizzled with rum and crème de cassis. This is a big, dry, extracted wine with some fairly hefty tannins. It drinks beautifully now and should hold well through 2020.
— S.H.
(9/1/2006)
Showket 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon (Oakville)
- $75
How sweet the fruit got during this ripe vintage. There’s a creme de cassis flavor and a liqueury texture, drizzled with a sprinkle of vanilla dust and cinnamon. That makes it sound like a dessert wine, but it’s dry. The balanced structure suggests midterm aging.
— S.H.
(10/1/2004)
Showket 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon (Oakville)
- $65
Drinks rather soft and pastry desserty now, with appealing flavors of blackberry tart, black cherry pie, anise, vanilla bean, mocha, cedar and cinnamon spice. Appealing for its direct lusciousness, but a little obvious, and could develop bottle bouquet and complexity after 2011.
— S.H.
(9/1/2009)
Showket 2001 Sangiovese (Oakville)
- $30
A dark wine, impressive for its brooding color, oak and tremendous black currant and cherry fruit. Don’t expect anything Tuscan; this is chocolaty and soft, but quite delicious. In the top ranks of current Sangioveses.
— S.H.
(10/1/2005)
Showket 1997 Sangiovese (Napa Valley)
- $35
If you’re wondering about the price, wonder no more: It’s by Heidi Barrett, and it’s built along the lines of mountain Cabernet; i.e., intense aromas and flavors and extremely oaky. Dense, concentrated fruit. Massive, sweet flavors; powerful. 14.5% alcohol makes it heady.
— S.H.
(12/15/1999)
Showket 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon (Oakville)
- $69
More tannic than many other Oakville Cabs tasted at the annual Taste of Oakville event, this blackberry and chocolate-flavored tough young wine may do interesting things. Try cellaring until 2007.
— S.H.
(11/1/2005)
Showket 2002 Sangiovese (Oakville)
- $30
This wine challenged me. At first it seemed underripe, then a wave of gooey melted chocolate and cherry preserves popped up. It also tastes sweet, which winemaker Heidi Barrett attributes to, not residual sugar, but high alcohol.
— S.H.
(11/1/2005)
Showket 2002 Asante Sana Red (Oakville)
- $45
This Super-Tuscan blend of Cabernet and Sangiovese seems excessively sweet, which is probably due to high alcohol. It has a tart, brittle mouthfeel, with flavors of chocolate. Tasted twice.
— S.H.
(11/1/2005)
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