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Cabernet Sauvignon
The Cabernet Sauvignon grape is the leading red wine grape in the world. Cabernet Sauvignon has spread to every corner of the globe as is by far the most paramount in it home town of bordeaux. The Cabernet Sauvignon grape produces superior wines that are tannic and keep well for prolonged periods. For optimum tasting pleasure store for about 5 to 10 years.
Cabernet Sauvignon is a small dark thick skinned grape which needs a slightly warmer environment than most other varieties to attain maturity. DNA testing shows that it is descended from both Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc.
A good Cabernet Sauvignon gives of tastes such as dark cherry, cedar, tobacco and black currant a cool climate when growing can also give a green pepper or olive taste. It takes up to a year and a half of oak barrel aging before bottling Cabernet is to achieve more complexity.
When you think of the finest red wines in the world, you often are thinking of wines made with Cabernet Sauvignon. Cabernet Sauvignon is known in some parts of the world by other names including: Petit Cabernet, Sauvignon Rouge, and Vidure.
Cabernet Sauvignon is a red grape mainly used for the production of wine, and is, along with Chardonnay, the most common grape variety in the world today. Although a cabernet grape takes a long growing season to ripen and doesnt give out high yields, many of the world's greatest red wines such as Red Bordeaux, are predominantly made from the Cabernet grapes.
The thick skin of the Cabernet grape results in the wine being high in tannin which provides both structure to the wine and lends it self to giving long life. This varietal, and aromatic with an attractive finish, also tends to lack mid-palate richness and so is often blended with lower tannin, but "fleshy" tasting grapes, particularly Merlot and, especially in Australia, Shiraz / Syrah.
Here is a list of the major cabernet vinyard countries
Bordeaux
The grand daddy of it all, this is were it all began, the Cabernet grape is strongly associated with the finest red wines of Bordeaux, such as those of the Médoc, where it is blended with varying quantities of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot just to name a few.
Although Cabernet Sauvignon will more often than not be the biggest single variety in the top Bordelais wines, its overall use is usually no more than 50 percent of the wine. Elsewhere in France it is used in varying quantities in several Roussillon wines, though generally in an attempt to imitate the wines of its Bordeaux neighbour.
Italy
Generally speaking, Italian vinters have long regarded the Cabernet Sauvignon grape with mistrust, despite a long history there, and appears in very few of Italy's DOCs. In Tuscany in the 1970s however, a number of top vinters deliberately introduced Cabernet Sauvignon into their wines, despite knowing that it fell outside of the DOC system, and produced the top class wines that are often known as "Super Tuscans".
United States
California is second to Bordeaux in being the world's largest cultivater of Cabernet Sauvignon, most notably in the Napa Valley and warmer AVAs of Sonoma County. In the early 90's in california cab-sav wine yeild doubled, abruptly lowering prices and throwing the wine industry into chaos. As in Bordeaux, it is often blended with Merlot and Cabernet Franc to produce 1st class wines.
Other New World Producers
Over this past decade a number of notable changes have come to light in the form of the "New World". The consistently optimal climates (more so than in Europe), strong investment and innovative winemaking techniques have allowed countries such as Chile, Argentina, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia to produce excellent Cabernet Sauvignon-based wines at competitive prices.
Aroma
Cabernet Sauvignon has a well defined aroma. it has the fragrant smell of violets, blackcurrant, cedar and spice. New World wines of this grape can often share the aromas of their Old World counterparts, but are more often dominated by aromas of chocolate, ripe jammy berries, oak, pepper and earth. In Australia, there is often a strong smell of eucalyptus, particularly in wines made in Coonawarra.
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