2005 | Scarecrow | Cabernet Sauvignon

Description

Red Wine: 2005 | Scarecrow | Cabernet Sauvignon

As the wine opens up in the glass, faint hints of caramel and honey emerge. The palate entry is dominated by dark berry and chocolate flavors, then broadens to include vanilla, fruit and forest floor notes. Texturally, the wine feels like heavy satin in the mouth, with only the finest-grained tannins adding structure to the finish.

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Producer: Scarecrow

Ratings: WA | 96WS | 96

Vintage: 2005

Size: 750ml

ABV: 15.4%

Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon

Country/Region: United States, Napa Valley

A mix of intensely ripe cherry, blackberry and dark plum aromas blend with floral notes of lavender and rosewater and the sweet spice of milk chocolate, cinnamon bark and warm vanilla custard. As the wine opens up in the glass, faint hints of caramel and honey emerge. The palate entry is dominated by dark berry and chocolate flavors, then broadens to include vanilla, fruit and forest floor notes. Texturally, the wine feels like heavy satin in the mouth, with only the finest-grained tannins adding structure to the finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon goes from strength to strength. Beautiful notes of crushed rocks, white flowers, and blue, red, and black fruits form a complex, compelling set of aromatics. The wine reveals superb richness, a full-bodied mouthfeel, excellent integration of acidity, wood, and tannin, and a terrific finish. This beautiful 2005 is already displaying some secondary nuances, and it should drink splendidly well for 2-3 decades.

• Wine Spectator: Combines power with finesse and purity of flavor. Ripe, with fleshy, juicy wild berry, plum and black cherry fruit that’s supple and polished, rich and concentrated, with a long, deep, focused and persistent finish that keeps repeating the fruit themes. Best from 2009 through 2018. 850 cases made.

Producer Information

The Scarecrow story begins in a patch of earth with a fabled past. The J.J. Cohn Estate, where Scarecrow grapes are born, borders what was once the legendary vineyard of Inglenook winemaker Gustave Niebaum, whose plantings blanketed more than 1,000 acres of the Napa Valley at the close of the 19th century.
John Daniel Jr. took the helm at Inglenook in 1939, determined to restore the label to pre-Prohibition standing and produce world-class Bordeaux-style wines. In 1945, Daniel convinced his neighbor, J.J. Cohn, to plant eighty acres of Cabernet vines on the 180-acre parcel Cohn had purchased a few years prior. The property served as a summer retreat for Cohn’s wife and their family. He had no ambitions to become a winemaker himself, but Daniel promised to buy his grapes, so Cohn planted vines. The rest, as they say, is history. J.J. Cohn Estate grapes are highly sought-after in part because Cohn bucked the trend, begun in the mid-1960s, of replacing vines planted on St. George rootstock with the supposedly superior AxR#I hybrid. Over time, vines grafted onto this new stock proved highly vulnerable to phylloxera. But by then, virtually all of the old St. George vines in Napa had been destroyed. Only the original 1945 J.J. Cohn vines survived. These highly prized “Old Men” continue to produce uncommonly rich fruit—the hallmark of Scarecrow wine. A move west in the 1920s launched Cohn’s studio career. Highly resourceful and extremely capable, Cohn began as a bookkeeper, distinguished himself early and rose quickly through the ranks to become Chief of Production at MGM. His unofficial credo, “Nothing is impossible,” became the motto of his MGM staff. They knew him as a man who simply refused to take “No” for an answer.