Three Sticks Moon Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon

Three Sticks Moon Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon uit Sonoma County, USA. Intense blackcurrant aroma with a sublimely pronounced nose. Balanced in flavor, powerful and intense. 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from their Moon Mountain vineyards. Fermentation takes place in both New French oak barrels and open stainless steel tanks. The wine then matures for another 26 months in French oak barrels, 50% of which are new barrels. With hearty meat dishes Cabernet Sauvignon is best known in Bordeaux where, together with Merlot and Cabernet Franc, it produces high-class wines. It needs a lot of heat to ripen, otherwise it becomes green and juicy with a taste of green pepper. Too much heat makes it soft and jammy, with a taste of blackcurrant. Cabernet Sauvignon produces very aromatic wines with scents of blackcurrant, vanilla, spices (pepper), tobacco, plum, cherry, toasted bread and cedar. The wines usually have a long shelf life, contain a lot of tannin and should in principle ripen in barriques. By applying modern vinification techniques, young wines can now also be drinkable quickly. In general, the wines have a high phenol content, they are purple (young) or dark red (old) and have a lot of power and structure. Cabernet Sauvignon can be found all over the world. Wherever someone wants to make a ‘serious’ wine, Cabernet Sauvignon is planted.