There’s no doubt about it.īut it is also difficult, if not impossible, to ignore that Year in critical moments than 2002, so the wines were always more reticent than To examine weather during a growing season and extrapolate what that means in The natural tendency when looking at vintage, new or old, is Stretched into October without major shock events. BenignĬonditions in September and October allowed for a long, leisurely harvest that There were some spikes, but, importantly, temperatures stayedĬool at night, one of the features of Napa Valley’s unique climate. Weather turned considerably cooler during the critical Flowering in most places was finishedīy the end of the month. Heat returned in May, prompting some producers to describe April turned considerably cooler, to the point that some vineyards wereĪffected by frost. The 2001 growing season began with a very early bud-break in Was great fun to revisit these wines a decade later. Most of theīetter wines tasted like they were two to three years old, not ten! Needless to say, it Very, very young and still in need of considerable cellaring. With totally different backgrounds, there was not much disagreement on theĪt the time, the major takeaway was that the wines were Even though Bob and I came at these wines This was the beginning of my understanding that quality in wine sits above style. Morning and afternoon, we picked our favorites and talked about them in depth.
I was terrified and excited at the same time. Gatherings, at a comprehensive tasting of the 2000 Bordeaux sometime aroundĢ006/2007. Tasted with Bob once before, outside of dinners and other Wine Advocate Something really important was happening. It was one of those rare moments in life when I knew That on the first day the Abreu and Araujo Estate wines arrived late, so we We worked through the wines in small flights, alphabetically.īob clearly had a routine. Napa in May to taste the 2001s…want to come?” I almost dropped the phone. Of the blue in the winter of 2011, the phone rang.
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I knew a little bit about California wines,īut to say I was far from an expert would be an understatement. Sometime in late 2010, Bob asked me to take over coverage of Memories, as it is the first vintage in Napa Valley I tasted comprehensively Two thousand-one is a vintage that holds some pretty special Highly regarded at the time, 2001Ĭontinues to impress with dark, potent wines, many of which are in the sweet Two thousand-one is one of the most important vintages in The 2001 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon: Stepping Back in Time
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