Seavey Cabernet Sauvignon 1993
Cabernet Sauvignon
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
1993
Size
750ML
ABV
13.8%
Your Rating
Somm Note
Winemaker Notes
This wine possesses a dark saturated purple color, a sweet, truffle, cassis-scented nose, and dense, powerful, full-bodied flavors with considerable glycerin, extract and tannin.
Blend: 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Merlot
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Wine Spectator
Hard cedar and wood aromas give way to enticing, spicy cherry pie, plum and blackberry flavors that evolve and grow on you. Still very dense and tannic, it truly needs aeration, so decant about an hour before serving.--1993 California Cabernet retrospective.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 1993 Cabernet Sauvignon has developed well. It is performing far stronger than it did when I first tasted it a year ago. The wine possesses a dark saturated purple color, a sweet, truffle, cassis-scented nose, and dense, powerful, full-bodied flavors with considerable glycerin, extract, and tannin. It reveals more sweetness of fruit, as well as a more expansive, chewy texture than it displayed immediately after bottling. For the 1993 vintage, this is a top-notch effort. Anticipated maturity: 2000-2020. This winery is making Cabernet Sauvignon that offers a high quality/price rapport. Most wines of this complexity, character, and richness cost $40 or more a bottle. The $28 price fetched by the 1993 looks very fair in today's market. This well-located estate in the charming, pastoral Conn Valley (the foothills east of St. Helena) is owned by the Seavey family. Just over 35 acres of vines are planted on the slopes, with the bulk of the production sold to Kendall-Jackson. Enough fruit is retained to estate bottle 1,200 cases. This is an underrated, somewhat unknown source of terrific Cabernet Sauvignon. The 1990 and 1991 Cabernet Sauvignons (now sold out) are magnificent. I once kept a decanted bottle of the 1991 for four days, admiring how it resisted any oxidation. Moreover, it developed additional richness and complexity each day. The newer efforts, particularly the exceptional 1993, very fine 1994, and what appears to be another memorable effort in 1995, all merit attention. These are intensely flavored wines, aged in small French oak barrels coopered by such well-known French firms as Taransaud and Seguin-Moreau. A relatively good pear/pineapple-scented and flavored Chardonnay is produced, and in 1994, a very good Merlot was added to the winery's small portfolio.
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In the 1870s – when Conn Valley Road was little more than a wagon trail – the land which we now farm was planted with grapes to make a “Claret of high repute.” This wine was judged by the St. Helena Star to be “as fine as one might find anywhere.” Commonly known as the Franco-Swiss Farming Company, this was the pioneering vineyard and winemaking operation of Conn Valley. After roughly thirty years of producing great wines, the company dissolved due to the impact of a phylloxera infestation and Prohibition. For more than a half century, cattle roamed the land and grain was farmed but no more grapes were cultivated until Bill and Mary Seavey acquired the land in 1979.
Bill and Mary set out to revive the original vineyard, planting the south-facing hillsides of Conn Valley near Lake Hennessey. By 1990, we had remodeled an 1881 stone dairy barn into a small winery and began producing small quantities of Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. Small blocks of Merlot and Petit Verdot were also added along with a second winery building which includes an underground wine cave.
LSB208642_1993 Item# 208642