Cabernet Sauvignon comparison

Question 1

Cabernet Sauvignon in Chile

Answer 1

TASTING:
Made in variety of styles from fruity to full body premium.
The wines show intense berry fruit and capsicum.

ALSO

1. Half of the black grape varieties planted.
2. Usually blended with Merlot, Carmenere and Syrah.

Question 2

Cabernet Sauvignon in California

Answer 2

TASTING:
Soft, juicy blanc cherry with light tannin. Fruit is left until complete phenolic ripeness creating an expressive wine with powerful toasty flavours from American oak.
Premium californian wines: the long hang time of the fruit, which result in an opulent, complex spectrum of ripe flavours in the grapes, although it can lead to unbalanced, high alcohol.
And the second thing is strict selection of grapes, high tech equipment and temperature-controlled barrel cellars, which result in wines that are very well crafted, often with powerful, toasty flavours from new French oak.

ALSO
The most planting grape in California with 25% of the full amount.
Many produced in the Central Valley. Prime sites from Napa rival Bordeaux for quality.
Very high quality also in Washington States.

Question 3

Cabernet Sauvignon in South Africa

Answer 3

It is the most widely planted black variety

Used as a monovarietal and blend with Merlot as Bordeaux blend.

Question 4

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah in New Zealand

Answer 4

Grown mainly in Hawkes Bay and Auckland producing full bodied Bordeaux and Rhone styles.
Very famous the Gimlett Gravels (Hawkes Bay) a well drained graves site where Bordeaux blend grapes producing a high quality wines.

Question 5

Cabernet Sauvignon in Bordeaux Blend gives …

Answer 5

TASTING:
Moderate yields and produce tannic, full bodies wines with a characteristic blackcurrant aroma.
Produce tannic wines with an affinity to oak and a core of blackcurrant fruit.
ALSO
2. Dominates in the Haut Medoc, where it can ripe successfully.
3. Also ripes on Bas Medoc and Graves, due to the high stone/gravel content of the soils, here helps reflect heat back into the vineyard and make that ripe.
4. It can account 3/4 of the blend in the finest wines.
6. Cabernet Sauvignon always is blend.
7. Can be age for decades.

Question 6

Cabernet Sauvignon in Australia

Answer 6

Darker,
with firmer tannins and
higher acidity than Australian Shiraz.
It may appear as a blended wine, with Shiraz or Merlot.
Classic regions including Coonawarra and Margaret River.
Ripe black fruit characters ( blackcurrant, black cherry) often underpinned by toasty, meaty oak notes.
dominance of cassis, pyrazine notes - green pepper