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| 2009 Plantaze Cabernet Sauvignon |
Well here we are again with the start of a new year and some more great (or not so great) wine industry related reviews and articles. I want to thank everyone for checking out my wine Blog, wine Facebook and Twitter last year. It was very exciting when I got a comment from you or a new "like" from you guys. Please spread the word and continue to be a fan I have some exciting things planned for this year that I think you will like. To start off with this year articles I have a short review for a Cabernet Sauvignon from Cemovsko, Montenegro named Plantaze. I was in Total Wine & Spirits the other day and wanted something different. I searched and searched and was coming up with nothing that really struck me as "different". Finally I saw this wine and it was from an older vintage and from a place that I had never had wine from so I figured, why not. The wine was fairly inexpensive ($9) and in the cart it went. After doing some errands I finally made it home and checking in with Mrs. Desert Wine Girl I grabbed the kids and headed upstairs to my tasting room......O.K my loft :) I was looking forward to tasting this Cabernet because it came from a part of the world that I usually don't buy Cabernet from. With hopes I wouldn't be disappointed I poured the first glass.
Before I go on with the actual review I wanted to add a side note. I know that some of you might wonder why I would bring the kids with me to do some wine tasting. This would be a great opportunity for some alone time you might say. I guess if I had normal kids I would agree however my kids are kind of advanced for their age and seem, at least at this age to have some.....different interests than other kids some times. I don't know if it's because I always involved them in what I was doing from a very young age or what but they just seem to love to learn things that are beyond their age. My Two identical twins are four years old and seem to know know more about wine (including respecting Alcohol) then some adults do. As I said earlier, they go upstairs with me and after I review the wine we sit at a table and go over different aspects of the wine including varietal and proper pour. I guess you could say it is "our thing". No they don't taste or pour (I like the Carpet the color it was meant to be) but they do everything else. When we go to the garden or Vineyards they will help with cleaning and caring for them also. When the Skeltonizer (small purple moth pests) come in the Spring they have the mission to kill them. Seeing them run across the Backyard all day trying to swat them out of the air is great. Needles to say I am very blessed. O.K now lets get back to the review.
This 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon started off nicely and had a very nice pour of dark Red Berry and reminded me of the nice dark skin of a Strawberry mixed with Bing Cherry skin. This was a nice start to what I had hoped was going to be a great wine. The bouquet followed up the pour with nice strong aromas of Carmel and Blackberry which was followed by Green Pepper. Oh boy this is going to be good I hoped. Things were starting to look really good here. Well folks ......you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice & men. I am afraid that things didn't work out as I had planned. The wine opened in my mouth to a very heavy Blackberry which was followed up by a very strong Cranberry. Both of these fruits fought very hard to overpower one another but in the end neither did however the fight seemed to always continue. But wait there are more fruits that joined in the battle. I also tasted a very acidic Plum with Cassis and Green Pepper and they too joined the fight to overpower one another. Neither of these additional flavors did anything to soften the wine sadly. The wine in the end was a bitter and harsh mess. Later on in the wine as the wine opened Black Cherry came on to join in the battle for superiority. While the wine is definitely packed with various fruits nothing was ripe or drinkable. What a shame because the combinations of everything were present but the wine did not see to be able to pull itself together. The wine throughout the bottle had an overpowering and lingering acidic, bitter taste. While it wasn't a wine I dumped out after the first few sips I would never buy it again nor can I recommend it. If I could draw a picture for you it would be of Vineyard workers picking decaying fruit from the ground and adding unripened juice from grapes. Yes, it was that bad. That is all there is for this review, plain and simply a bad wine.
With hopes of a good to great wine that I could cellar for some time I was left with a simple disappointment. I wish I could find something good to talk about here but sadly there isn't anything good to say. On the Desert Wine Guy rating scale which I adapted from Wine Spectator Magazine (http://www.winespectator.com/newsandfeatures) I give this wine a 75 which is Mediocre, a drinkable wine that may have minor flaws. It should be noted that this wine barely made the "drinkable" scale and was very close to me rating it "undrinkable".
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