{"id":4128,"date":"2021-11-04T22:26:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2021-11-04T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:28:27","slug":"4128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/2021\/11\/04\/4128\/","title":{"rendered":"‘LITTLE’ CAB FROM A TOP GUN, CALIFORNIA STYLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Long time followers of Napa Cabernet will recognize\u00a0 the Chateau Le Grande Roche as the working, quite competent value bottling\/second wine of Napa icon Ric Forman.\u00a0 What brings up the conversation this time around is that this particular bottling hits heights we don\u2019t recall experiencing with past efforts.\u00a0 Yeah, they have been quite good on a consistent basis, but not this <\/em>good.\u00a0 The label was created way back in 1984 as<\/em> a second wine and, as is common in the Napa Valley, is not acknowledged on the Forman website so there is no visible association with the \u2018premier\u2019 label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said, since Ric has been making wine, and this<\/em> wine for a long time, we have to attribute this wine’s plush, outgoing, layered personality to 2018.\u00a0 The supple cassis and black cherry fruit that rolls across the palate like a wave, leaving flecks of toast and minerality as a calling card.\u00a0 Such a profile has been a recurrent theme with the 2018 and 2019 Cabs we have tasted thus far from Napa.\u00a0 Delicous, well-infused acidity, melty tannins, the Chateau Grande Roche Cabernet Sauvignon 2018<\/a><\/strong> definitely made us pay attention.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t a wine that is on everybody\u2019s mind and it isn\u2019t aggressively marketed.\u00a0 That said, our message is simple…don\u2019t miss it.\u00a0 This is a sleeper hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Antonio Galloni, “The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Chateau La Grande Roche is such a delicious wine. A burst of sweet red cherry, red plum, mocha, spice, licorice and leather race out of the glass. Exuberant and juicy, yet very much medium in body, the 2018 is a wine of pure and total pleasure. All the elements come together in a mid-weight Cabernet Sauvignon that hits all the right notes. The Grand Roche is the second selection from the Forman Cabernet, and a great value to boot…93 Points<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long time followers of Napa Cabernet will recognize\u00a0 the Chateau Le Grande Roche as the working, quite competent value bottling\/second wine of Napa icon Ric Forman.\u00a0 What brings up the conversation this time around is that this particular bottling hits heights we don\u2019t recall experiencing with past efforts.\u00a0 Yeah, they have been quite good on … Continue reading “‘LITTLE’ CAB FROM A TOP GUN, CALIFORNIA STYLE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[578,70,877,876,504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}